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Hello. I know from the article's discussion page, that you have made several sensible suugestions about trying to improve the Wiki article. After months of bleating myself about the lack of references etc., I am finally getting round to trying to upgrade it. Would you be interested in helping me ? No offence if it is no longer a priority in your life. Regards,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 21:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Derek,
Yep, I am keen to help... but as is the way of these things life has a habit of getting in the way.
I am also a 'nube' and novice with wikipedia, which doesn't help... but certainly I would love to see the Slade article licked into shape and I am willing to assist. SAHBfan ( talk) 10:58, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I have been using wikipedia for a year or so? I had a bit of a baptism of fire by trying to write my first article about a rock group. It was immediately 'pounced on' and labelled with headers telling me it was inadequately referenced and lacked inline citations and so on (it was always referenced, from the very first version). Fairly early on it was flagged for deletion. All this whilst I was trying to lick it into shape and learn what I was doing. I had to spend a lot of time trying to understand the deletion proceedure and fight my case (time I would have preferred to spend refining the article). Consequently I am fairly well versed in Wikipedia:Verifiabilty, Wikipedia:Citing sources. To some extent my article probably can be justly criticised for Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, but wikipedia is full of articles about groups that are 100% fancruft and have no references whatsoever. Some of these have been up for years and never attracted a single banner or comment - so yes, I did feel a little victimised ^_^. I believe there is a rule about not biting noobies, but savaging their first article seems to be fair game! ;-) I kind of got the impression that there are maybe 'cultural' do's and don'ts on wikipedia that aren't spelled out in the rules. I suspect I trod on a few feet, or something. I was intending to write several articles to correct what I see to be a big omission in one area of music representation on wikipeia, but decided after my initial experience it was just far too much hassle to attempt to write another article, so since then I have instead limited myself to comments in the discussion pages. SAHBfan ( talk) 08:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Replies have been made at the help desk. If the problem is solved, please place {{resolved}} ~~~~ at the top of the section. Thank you, Zoo Fari 21:55, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I know from the article's discussion page, that you have made several sensible suugestions about trying to improve the Wiki article. After months of bleating myself about the lack of references etc., I am finally getting round to trying to upgrade it. Would you be interested in helping me ? No offence if it is no longer a priority in your life. Regards,
Derek R Bullamore ( talk) 21:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Derek,
Yep, I am keen to help... but as is the way of these things life has a habit of getting in the way.
I am also a 'nube' and novice with wikipedia, which doesn't help... but certainly I would love to see the Slade article licked into shape and I am willing to assist. SAHBfan ( talk) 10:58, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I have been using wikipedia for a year or so? I had a bit of a baptism of fire by trying to write my first article about a rock group. It was immediately 'pounced on' and labelled with headers telling me it was inadequately referenced and lacked inline citations and so on (it was always referenced, from the very first version). Fairly early on it was flagged for deletion. All this whilst I was trying to lick it into shape and learn what I was doing. I had to spend a lot of time trying to understand the deletion proceedure and fight my case (time I would have preferred to spend refining the article). Consequently I am fairly well versed in Wikipedia:Verifiabilty, Wikipedia:Citing sources. To some extent my article probably can be justly criticised for Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, but wikipedia is full of articles about groups that are 100% fancruft and have no references whatsoever. Some of these have been up for years and never attracted a single banner or comment - so yes, I did feel a little victimised ^_^. I believe there is a rule about not biting noobies, but savaging their first article seems to be fair game! ;-) I kind of got the impression that there are maybe 'cultural' do's and don'ts on wikipedia that aren't spelled out in the rules. I suspect I trod on a few feet, or something. I was intending to write several articles to correct what I see to be a big omission in one area of music representation on wikipeia, but decided after my initial experience it was just far too much hassle to attempt to write another article, so since then I have instead limited myself to comments in the discussion pages. SAHBfan ( talk) 08:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Rufus "Speedy" Jones, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Rufus Jones. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
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