User talk:Jake@prodea.com

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Dear Jake@prodea.com,

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Unfortunately, using your e-mail address as your username is not a good idea. Wikipedia content is extensively copied and the site itself is one of the most visited sites in the world. Any edit you make on Wikipedia will have your username attached to it, and using your email address will make you a tempting target for spammers. We recommend that you change your username at Wikipedia:Changing username in order to prevent abuse.

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➨ ЯEDVERS 19:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Anousheh Ansari bio?

Hi Jake, I'm hoping, bevause of your usermane, that you have some connection with Prodea Systems and can help us out with a discrepency on the Anousheh Ansari bio page. We currently have Ansari's date of birth as 1966 and her year of immigration to the US as 1984. However we also have her age when she came her as 16! Do you know if Ansari has had her biography published anywhere that would have done fact checking on this sort of thing? And even if not, can you clear up the discrepency? The fact checking bit is ideal so we can meet wikipedia's reliable source and verification guidelines. But any help would be appreciated~ Thanks --SiobhanHansa 18:19, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Jake. Thanks for responding. There are some difficulties (and much confusion) over people connected with a person editing the bio. It's unfortunate that it sometimes makes it difficult to get more accurate info on an article. Ideally you would be able to point us to a bio of Ansari that someone independent has fact-checked (verifiability from reliable sources being the standard we are trying to achieve with content here). If not, posting details (especially stuff that clears up confusion) on the article talk page so that other editors can add them to the article is probably the best way to get good information into the article without being hassled for efforts to improve it. Again, pointing to references that back up information you provide is critical for us in building a sustainable article. Thanks again. --SiobhanHansa 13:59, 11 September 2006 (UTC)