User talk:Maria Jackson

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Hello, Maria Jackson! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! E Wing (talk) 03:29, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Taseer Bashir. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. E Wing (talk) 07:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have made major changes on your advice. An abstract is as below:

single source Now there are large no. of wikis internal citations and 12 external citations within the body of the text and 23 external source references, most are DIRECTLY related to this specific article.

peacock terms Words like distinguished, exceptional, outstanding, reputable and eminent, etc. have been removed.

original research As above, new references have been added pointing to the hardcopy or online sources.

copy editing Further effort has been made to improve the text. Feel free to help improve as skies are the limit regarding quality of the language.

copy editing The article has been further cleaned up and expanded - almost three times the size of the previous article and sub-headings added etc. l ead section. Lead section has been added.

Please feel free to help improve 'copy editing'. Please also remove the edit notes where appropriate at the top of the previous version of the article that you entered. many Thanks --Maria Jackson (talk) 12:55, 8 March 2010 (UTC) --Maria Jackson (talk) 13:02, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]