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Thanks for the suggestions. Appreciated. Think I'll step away from my little Wikipedia venture. This is my first attempt at adding a Wikipedia article. Since the draft is inadequate -- and taking up considerably more time than I envisioned -- will take whatever steps are necessary to delete it. Do not know Mulholland, merely have admired his work over the years. Thought he deserved a page, better left to one more equipped than I. Again, your encouragement is gratefully appreciated.

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Thank you so very much. Been stumbling for a tad longer than I ever expected in getting this article even semi-right. Shall continue stumbling along! Chrish65 ( talk) 12:10, 14 May 2015 (UTC) reply

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== personal life Confused about personal life deletion. Sage story, external link, he says he is gay, he is writing the article for a gay organization, he is writing about aging as a gay man, and can't state on main page that he is gay? Doesn't make sense. Three lgbt/gay writing categories, must be based on the Sage article, no? Chrish65 ( talk) 18:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC) Chrish65 ( talk) 18:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC) reply

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You need to be more careful editing lists of people. You can't just revert to a year-old version as your way of restoring content whose removal you dispute, because that also erases everything else that's been added to the list since then — for example, your edit to List of LGBT writers had the effect not just of restoring the writers you were trying to restore, but of removing 15 new writers who have been added to the list since the version you tried to restore, as well as erasing biographical and referencing updates that have been made to at least 40 other writers. You cannot do that: if you want to add content to the list, you can add it, but you cannot simply revert to an old version if that erases other legitimate content that has been added since the removal that you're disputing. You're going to be running the risk of a temporary editblock if I have to keep going around after you to repair edits like that. Bearcat ( talk) 23:43, 8 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Very, very sorry. Sincere apologies for all the work and effort I have put you through. Will take more care in the future. Chrish65 ( talk)

It occurred to me later that you might have thought that restoring that version of the article just reinserted the specific edit you were trying to apply at that time, and didn't change anything else that was on the page — but what it actually does is roll the entire page back to its state as of that date and time, thus also removing any other changes that have taken place since then. So just to clarify, I'm confident that you didn't intend to erase all of the newer edits, and that you just didn't realize the full extent what was actually happening. Bearcat ( talk) 13:48, 9 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Got it! Thank you for your patience and understanding. Regret that it was you, and not I, who had to incur the cost in time and frustration and work. Chrish65 ( talk)

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