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Sorry - still trying to work out how to do this. No disclosures to make: I'm not in the organization's employ and have nothing to personally materially gain for contributing this to this topic on Wikipeadia. I am a member of the organization, does that count?? Mikeymoocow (talk)
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Ways to improve List of Presidents of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia edit

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Reference is given down the bottom of the page. Mikeymoocow (talk)
The source provided is a primary source. Wikipedia requires secondary reliable sources from independent publications to show how the topic is notable for inclusion in the encyclopaedia. -- Longhair\talk 19:45, 29 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

October 2021 edit

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List of Sutherland Lectures of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia moved to draftspace edit

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List of HGSA Orations moved to draftspace edit

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Thanks for your updates to the article, but in this edit, you did a very strange thing. You replaced the 2011 census in the history section with 2016 census data. There's never a reason to remove/replace old census data from a history section. By all means, add 2016 census info to the history section, but, in this case, the 2016 census was already in the history section in the following paragraph, so now there are two paragraphs with 2016 census data in the history and none for 2011. As you did other changes as part of the edit, I didn't just want to revert the whole edit, but could you please restore the 2011 census data in the history section please. Thanks Kerry (talk) 20:21, 20 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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