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We need help filling in information on tobacco industry-related people in our [[Biographies]] database, and cleaning up exsiting articles (adding appropriate paragraph breaks, improving the format, etc.).  You can help by going through the Biographies and helping us find out more information on the people.
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<h3>Tobacco Industry Projects & Operations</h3>
  
The best way to do this is to take the entire name of a person, for example, "John Pumpernickle," and enter it, in quotations, as search criteria in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Full Text Demonstration Site at ltdlftd.legacy.library.ucsf.edu
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[[Image:Cogs2.jpg|left]]We need help making sure that all tobacco industry projects and operations listed in TobaccoWiki appear on this [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Tobacco_industry_projects_and_operations clickable, alphabetical list] of such projects. Help us by going through the industry [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Projects_%26_operations Projects and Operations] page and making sure that the category "Tobacco industry projects and operations" appears at the bottom of each article. Type the category at the bottom of each article like this: <nowiki>[[Category:Tobacco industry projects and operations|Operation Apodixis]]</nowiki> (The vertical line before "Operation Apodixis" is called a "pipe," and it is found on most keyboards above the backslash (/) key.) Thanks for your help, and enjoy reading about all the projects!
  
Read the documents.  They are searchable PDFs and you can search within them for the person's name by using the "Find" tool in your Adobe Acrobat program (use the icon that looks like little binoculars). Find where the name occurs in the document and note who the person worked for, where they worked (geographic location), if the person had a title, the date they held the title, and any other pertinent information you may find on them.  Add the information to their profile! Be sure to reference the documents you found as sources.
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Latest revision as of 19:06, 21 May 2015

Tobacco Industry Projects & Operations

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We need help making sure that all tobacco industry projects and operations listed in TobaccoWiki appear on this clickable, alphabetical list of such projects. Help us by going through the industry Projects and Operations page and making sure that the category "Tobacco industry projects and operations" appears at the bottom of each article. Type the category at the bottom of each article like this: [[Category:Tobacco industry projects and operations|Operation Apodixis]] (The vertical line before "Operation Apodixis" is called a "pipe," and it is found on most keyboards above the backslash (/) key.) Thanks for your help, and enjoy reading about all the projects!

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