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diff --git a/docs/wp/blockchain/index.md b/docs/wp/blockchain/index.md
@@ -998,8 +998,6 @@ He worked on a global cross-asset _Kx for Surveillance_ implementation
 for a major international banking group before moving to one of 
 Asia’s largest sovereign-wealth funds to develop a solution for 
 best execution and transaction-cost analysis.
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irwin-daniel)
 
 ![Jeremy Lucid](../../img/faces/jeremylucid.jpg)
 {: .small-face}
diff --git a/docs/wp/compress/index.md b/docs/wp/compress/index.md
@@ -286,6 +286,4 @@ In any given application, the metrics which will determine if and how compressio
 
 **Eoin Killeen** has worked with KX technology for over ten years, designing and building real-time trading and analytics systems for clients in New York and London.
 Eoin’s current focus is Solution Architecture for EMEA-based clients.
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoin-killeen/)
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/data-loaders/index.md b/docs/wp/data-loaders/index.md
@@ -600,7 +600,5 @@ The framework outlined in this paper is a simplified version of a framework that
 {: .small-face}
 
 **Enda Gildea** is a senior kdb+ consultant for KX who has implemented several eFX post-trade analytics and cross-asset surveillance solutions in Singapore and Sydney.
-<br>
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/endagildea/) 
 
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/data-visualization/index.md b/docs/wp/data-visualization/index.md
@@ -571,8 +571,7 @@ visualization front-end to a kdb+ back end.
 ![Micahela Woods](../../img/faces/michaelawoods.jpg)
 {: .small-face}
 
-**Michaela Woods** is a KX Technical Evangelist and Training Manager. She pioneered combining kdb+ with Tableau, transforming the data-visualization platform for a Tier-1 Investment Bank.&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-woods-50502b60/)
+**Michaela Woods** is a KX Technical Evangelist and Training Manager. She pioneered combining kdb+ with Tableau, transforming the data-visualization platform for a Tier-1 Investment Bank.
 
 
 ## Appendix A
diff --git a/docs/wp/disaster-floods/index.md b/docs/wp/disaster-floods/index.md
@@ -1238,8 +1238,7 @@ The best results from the models above were obtained by continuously adjusting t
 ![Diane O’Donoghue](../../img/faces/dianeodonoghue.jpg)
 {: .small-face}
 
-**Diane O’Donoghue** joined First Derivative in 2018 as a data scientist in the Capital Markets Training Program and is currently on the Machine Learning team based in London. Within the team, Diane has been involved with expanding the Machine Learning Toolkit and the automated machine-learning platform.&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-o-donoghue-699230144/) 
+**Diane O’Donoghue** joined First Derivative in 2018 as a data scientist in the Capital Markets Training Program and is currently on the Machine Learning team based in London. Within the team, Diane has been involved with expanding the Machine Learning Toolkit and the automated machine-learning platform.
 
 
 ## Code
diff --git a/docs/wp/embedpy-lasso/index.md b/docs/wp/embedpy-lasso/index.md
@@ -656,7 +656,5 @@ by kdb+ can be found under _Featured Resources_ at
 {: .small-face}
 
 **Samantha (Gallagher) Devlin** has worked on implementing kdb+ solutions for financial institutions globally. 
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-gallagher-kdb) 
 
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/intraday-writedown/index.md b/docs/wp/intraday-writedown/index.md
@@ -651,5 +651,4 @@ Tests performed using kdb+ version 3.1 (2014.02.08)
 
 ## Author
 
-**Colm McCarthy** is a senior kdb+ consultant who has worked for leading investment banks across a number of different asset classes. &nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-mccarthy-11a60864/)
+**Colm McCarthy** is a senior kdb+ consultant who has worked for leading investment banks across a number of different asset classes.
diff --git a/docs/wp/iot-mqtt/index.md b/docs/wp/iot-mqtt/index.md
@@ -906,10 +906,5 @@ _KX POC Blog Series_:
 
 **Rian Ó Cuinneagáin** is a manager at KX.
 Rian is currently based in Dublin working on industrial applications of kdb+.
-<br>
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocuinneagain/)
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-twitter:](https://twitter.com/rianoc)
 
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/market-depth/index.md b/docs/wp/market-depth/index.md
@@ -380,6 +380,4 @@ _Q for Mortals_: [§8.8 Attributes](/q4m3/8_Tables/#88-attributes)
 {: .small-face}
 
 **Stephen Dempsey** is senior kdb+ developer on the KX R&D team. His core responsibility has been developing the [KX Platform](../../devtools.md#kx-platform) and supporting the wide range of applications built upon it. Earlier he implemented various kdb+ applications including large-volume exchange backtesting, and eFX trading.
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dempsey-6b1b5319/)
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/permissions/index.md b/docs/wp/permissions/index.md
@@ -1102,8 +1102,4 @@ While the approach outlined in this paper solely used q code to implement a perm
 ## Author
 
 **Tom Martin** is a senior kdb+ consultant for KX who has built kdb+ systems for some of the world’s leading financial institutions. Tom is currently based in London, where he works on FX auto-hedging and client algos at a top-tier investment bank.
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-martin-9ba96438/)
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-github:](https://github.com/t-martin)
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/solace/index.md b/docs/wp/solace/index.md
@@ -938,8 +938,7 @@ The Solace PubSub+ event broker and the KX open-source API brings the power of p
 ![Himanshu Gupta](../../img/faces/himanshugupta.png)
 {: .small-face}
 
-**Himanshu Gupta** is a solutions architect at [Solace](https://solace.com). He has experience working at both buy and sell side as a tick data developer. In these roles, he has worked with popular timeseries databases, such as kdb+, to store and analyze real-time and historical financial market data. &nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guptahim/) 
+**Himanshu Gupta** is a solutions architect at [Solace](https://solace.com). He has experience working at both buy and sell side as a tick data developer. In these roles, he has worked with popular timeseries databases, such as kdb+, to store and analyze real-time and historical financial market data. 
 
 Other papers by Himanshu Gupta
 {: .publications}
diff --git a/docs/wp/surv-cloud/index.md b/docs/wp/surv-cloud/index.md
@@ -528,8 +528,7 @@ As alluded to at the start of the paper, trade surveillance systems are only goi
 ![Luke Britton](../../img/faces/lukebritton.jpg)
 {: .small-face}
 
-**Luke Britton** has helped develop surveillance systems to identify market abuses for major international investment banks and exchanges, helped build and maintain a data warehouse for a new Mexican stock exchange for exchange monitoring, worked as part of an internal R&D team to build a product solution for the new U.S. regulatory requirement CAT, and led telemetry data visualization workshops for the MIT Motorsport team for their Formula SAE car. &nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-britton-964718114/) 
+**Luke Britton** has helped develop surveillance systems to identify market abuses for major international investment banks and exchanges, helped build and maintain a data warehouse for a new Mexican stock exchange for exchange monitoring, worked as part of an internal R&D team to build a product solution for the new U.S. regulatory requirement CAT, and led telemetry data visualization workshops for the MIT Motorsport team for their Formula SAE car. 
 
 <!-- Abbreviations -->
 
diff --git a/docs/wp/symfiles.md b/docs/wp/symfiles.md
@@ -770,9 +770,6 @@ All tests performed using kdb+ version 3.6 (2018.05.17).
 {: .small-face}
 
 **Paula Clarke** is a senior kdb+ consultant for KX who has worked for some of the world’s largest financial institutions designing, developing and maintaining global tick-capture kdb+ systems.
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulaclarke6/)
-
 
 
 ## Related articles
diff --git a/docs/wp/trend-indicators/index.md b/docs/wp/trend-indicators/index.md
@@ -589,6 +589,3 @@ The combination of this library of functions and KX Analyst provides the user fa
 {: .small-face}
 
 **James Galligan** is a kdb+ consultant who has designed and developed data-capture and data-analytics platforms for trading and analytics across multiple asset classes in multiple leading financial institutions. 
-&nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-linkedin:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-galligan-50629997/) &nbsp;
-[:fontawesome-brands-github:](https://github.com/jgalligan1993/)
