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I wanted to ask you a quick question about the close paraphrasing tag that was placed on Andres De Los Reyes. I looked over the page this morning and I cannot find any close paraphrasing between the page and the external source listed in the tag. I went through the version history and saw that several revisions to the page had been made since the tag was placed. If you have the time, could you look over the page and assess whether the template message about close paraphrasing still applies? If the message is still relevant, please let me know what I can do to further remedy the issue.

Thank you so much for your help! Parodda (talk) 15:54, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Parodda thanks for your message. I put that tag on based on the results from https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=1120562878&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpsyc.umd.edu%2Ffacultyprofile%2Fde-los-reyes%2Fandres

Whilst I'd expect some phrases to be duplicated, like "Director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program", because that's the name of something, the sentance "He uses these paradigms to test questions using experimental, controlled observation, naturalistic, and quantitative review research designs" from the article is very similar to "I leverage these paradigms to test questions using a suite of experimental, controlled observation, naturalistic, and quantitative review designs" from the webpage. That's just an example. I hope that helps. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:01, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia! 1Little Danny (talk) 17:03, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1Little Danny, thank you for the barn star! Do let me know if there's ever anything I can do to assist. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for welcoming so many new users, I have to compete with you now to try and welcome them first :). MasterMatt12 (talk) 01:37, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

MasterMatt12 Thank you for the barn star! Plenty more new users to welcome. :) -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:13, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please clean up (my hack [486958 Arrokoth ()]) by moving it to [486958 Arrokoth]. That is the naming convention on WP. Thanks. — kwami (talk) 19:33, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kwamikagami Done. That was originally requested at WP:RM/TR, but I have now completely undone that move and associated wikilink changes. -Kj cheetham (talk) 20:18, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There are possibly thousands of MP names that are absolutely unique, and many thousands more that are unique as WP article titles, but it would be a nightmare to try having discussions for all of them. So by default we use the full MPC names, with just a few outliers like Ceres and Pluto. That is debatable given WP naming conventions, but is a practically necessary exception to the rule, one that I think is followed by all wikipedias. — kwami (talk) 20:52, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]