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Thanks Moonriddengirl- I am not sure how this works exactly. If you go the network WhoIs site for my domain SearsR.com you can see I am the registrant. Does that prove it well enough? Thanks!: SEARSR.COM

AboutUs: SEARSR.COM

  Sears, Ray 
   
  2208 Amber Rd 
  Oklahoma City, OK73170 
  US 
    
  Domain Name: SEARSR.COM 
  Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :    
  Sears, Ray 
  lrsears@CAPECOD.NET 
  2208 AMBER RD 
  OKLAHOMA CITY, OK73170-3210 
  US 
  Phone: 405-703-0779 Lrsears (talk) 22:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you wrote the article for him. I have a few issues about the article. The first is the usage of the first person. If you are writing for a book, this is alright. A quote like: "While we don't know who his parents are or even where or when he was born we do know..." That also leads to the part where you address the great unknown. In the future, try not to be so blatent about not knowing something. Usually, discreet wording is best because you make the article look great when you are not able to back up a fact. Also, could you add some inline citations within the article. It looks pretty barren without it. I was also wondering if you could add some more about his life and not facts that are 200 years after he lived. This brings up the final issue of the references that you have. Overall, they are quite great. The issue is if you could squeeze some facts out of those citations because of the fact that they take up half the article and don't really cite much. All in all, I have seen much worse in articles. If you have any issue with the above suggestions, please feel free to talk to me. I hope that I haven't killed any spirit that you had in relation to this site. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Kevin I appreciate your input. You have some impressive Wikipedia credentials. My daughter attended Barnstable High when we lived in Osterville. Do you know any Sears people from the Cape? I will work on editing and resourcing that article!Lrsears (talk) 22:47, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I think you're one of the few kind people on this cutthroat site. I really don't know of any people with the surname Sears. It's made even more weird because I just was in possession of every Barnstable yearbook, and as I was reading through them, the name didn't stand out. That might've been because she was an underclassman, assuming she attended after 1995. I think the only Sears I know here is the mall store. Well thanks for everything again, and don't be afraid to ask should you ever need anything. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:06, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to clean up the article right now so that it will be acceptable. I'll copy the old version here: User:Lrsears/sandbox so that you can get to anything that I might have accidentally deleted. The reason that i'm doing this is so the tags can be removed. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is your wife named Cynthia? Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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