User talk:Garymitchelstanley

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Koppas (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

The Gorilla Foundation

Please don't take this the wrong way, because I appreciate that you've been trying to improve the article on The Gorilla Foundation. That article does need work! However, I reverted your recent edits. I gave a list of reasons on that article's talk page. I'm hoping that we (you, me, and other Wikipedians) can work together to make it a well-referenced article that meets Wikipedia's criteria for Verifiability, Neutral Point of View and No Original Research. If I find any good independent references for the article, I will either incorporate them as references or post them over at the talk page. Meanwhile, I agree that certain "facts" in the current article are not supported by references (which is why I flagged them with the "citation needed" template). Please feel free to respond here or at my talk page if you have any questions or concerns.--Koppas (talk) 17:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Garymitchelstanley. You have new messages at Talk:The Gorilla Foundation.
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Also - if you have any technical questions... (formatting, article layout, etc.) feel free to contact me directly at my talk page (or here). Formatting references can be especially tricky until you get the hang of it. :) Koppas (talk) 20:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)