User talk:Michaelhfreeman

Hello Michaelhfreeman, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Michaelhfreeman, good luck, and have fun. --PamD (talk) 08:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2009

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• Probably equally relevant here is the material at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help, about dealing with biographical information, and the more general policies at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. I've also replied on my talk page to your comment there. PamD (talk) 08:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

• • And there's more at Wikipedia:Autobiography. One fact missing from this article is your nationality, which normally appears in the opening sentence (X is a Y-ish Z): you're UK-based but are you British, American (as someone categorised you in March 2009) or other? I don't think anyone would argue it to be controversial if you added this fact yourself - and then you, or anyone else, could improve the category and stub-type listings, and the link from Michael Freeman (disambiguation). I'd suggest you add it to the article and, to be on the safe side, make a note on the talk page to say you are the subject of the article and have added this non-controversial fact which was missing from the article. Though I suppose someone might claim this to be "Original Research" even so! PamD (talk) 09:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)