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Whaley Bridge

Where in Whaley are you from Whaley Tim?

Approximately half way between the Shepherd's and the Board (that's all I would like to say in a public page) WhaleyTim 12:31, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

A Request

Please do not delete the article Nitish Srivastava. In a short time, I promise to improve the article to wikipedia`s required standards.

Whaley Bridge

You obviously live in Whaley Bridge, I live in Kett. How long have you been living there for? JFBurton 12:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Titanic note

Good idea on expanding the intro note in Titanic. Hopefully people will read it! Akradecki 14:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

R.M.S. Titanic

Hi Tim,

I see that you are editting the article on the Titanic in your sandbox. No problem with that as far as I'm concerned, however, I would like to advise you of the fact that the article points to the Lloyd's disambiguation page by use of the link [[Lloyd's]]. I would like to ask you if you could have it point to the Lloyd's of London page instead. I'm trying to clean up unwanted links to the disambiguation page, but since this is on your private space, I thought I'd ask you to do it yourself, rather, than me intruding. Mausy5043 19:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Italian films

Hi. I guess you have seen I had to split the list as it was fast approaching 100 kb and even my broadband hi-tech computer was slowing!! Italy has a huge industry but the lists are developing nicely -I guess you saw all the -26,000 bytes etc deep red links on the changes page which is bound to send alarm bells running -its good that you on the alert anyway -keep up the good wiki-guarding!!! Saludos ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 16:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

This is alos a coincidence as I edited the Titanic article earlier!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 16:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Hetag's Grove

Hi, thanks a lot for tagging this article as a copyvio. Just for future reference, blatant copy pastes from external websites may be tagged {{db-copyvio}} for speedy deletion if there is no claim that the editor has the authorization to import the text here. Thanks again! -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Derbyshire October Newsletter

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organicgirl

I am rather new to the editing process. Per your request I have made comments on the discussion page of organicgirl

I have read the SPAM information and Guideline # 11 -- I am asking for feedback on what needs to change to make this page encyclopedic. Or, are you saying, it doesn't have merit to be a page?

Please advise.

monte

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MonteShaffer 17:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I am still at a loss on how to proceed. I am not fully understanding the process of editorial decisions at Wikipedia, and am aware that you are very experienced. So, is the company information valid if I provide a newspaper article. I don't understand fully the logic of allowing some companies and products and not others. I guess I haven't been fully baptized into the Wiki Community of Practice.

monte

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MonteShaffer 19:59, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

WhaleyTim,

Thanks for taking the time to mentor me. I believe in the goals of Wikipedia, and do understand the implications associated with determining notability, references, etc. I also understand the implications to prevent spam at Wikipedia, which makes your job as an editor even more difficult. This discussion has opened my eyes to a lot of issues you deal with on a daily basis. Like mentioned, the Whole Foods article is generally edited and maintained by someone at their company - in the print world, this would be no different than someone at Whole Foods calling up EB and asking how the article is going to be worded etc. [1]

Based on your feedback, and Pigman's I am going to rework the article. It still may not be considered notable at this time (or ever), which is your discretion (and can be respected); I actually was teaching an Internet Marketing class today where we discussed this issue in detail. So there is a lot of learning going on by me personally and by those I influence. In this Internet course, I am considering requiring the students to write an article about a business and try and get it approved through Wikipedia. The awareness issue is both good and bad. This would requiring them contact a company get key information, and write an article that fits the guidelines. I am attempting to model such behavior with organicgirl.

I do realize the dilemna that may be created for you [Great, this guy is training students to exploit Wikipedia]. By no means is that my intention. It is clear that Wikipedia is effects awareness. Managing a company's identity is important, that is why someone at Whole Foods monitors the page. I can hope you recognize that my goal is to learn from this activity and encourage my students to learn. All of my contributions I have made have been intended to contribute. I have strong "open source beliefs."

For example, I am a great grandson of Alexander Ruthven, who was killed on 5 Aug 1600 by King James of England, in the Gowrie house conspiracy. I also created a Web color tool [2] with categorical colors mentioned specifically in the Web colors Wiki page. I have one footnote in the article which links to the tool. As a future marketing professor, I am using that information almost as a metric on Information Diffusion.

There may be a fine line between tricking or gaming the system and using white magic within the system. My intentions are to teach techniques that fit under the latter, so I do appreciate the time you have devoted to increasing my awareness. If there was a central message you would want me to share with those I teach and influence, what would it be? Don't even try to create business articles? Or, if you try, please follow the following guidelines?

In terms of copy strategy, please realize that I am trying to follow the rules. I have created two pages in the past, and was attempting to model organicgirl based on different specific pages (which I earlier mentioned). By no means am I trying to justify myself. As editors, you are deeply involved in many activities, so the copy strategy you use (e.g., encyclopedic writing) has become tacitly engrained in your way of thinking. Most learners learn informally, by copying good examples. I have read all of the suggested materials, and will continue to read, but we do learn best by doing. I am trying to understand and become a legitimate participant in your Community of Practice. A model example of good "encyclopedic copy" would be very helpful, especially in the context I am currently working on.

So I will work on a new version, and give it back to you [post it as my user page].

Thanks again for being so responsive, and helping me to understand. Editors have a challenging job, and the dilemma of providing appropriate content without allowing the promotional is a difficult balance indeed.

monte

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Sage Hospitality Resources

...is back, and still looks spammy to me; but as I see you've been trying to educate them, perhaps you should look at it. JohnCD (talk) 20:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

About Marvin Whitehurst

why would you want to delete marvin whitehurst from wikipedia. He has done more for humanity than you and your wikipedia deletions. do you even know who he is. I wrote some crap up there right now but i am going to actually put up stuff. (don't answer if you know who he is or not because if you don't, i don't want to know. I would probably die laughing at you.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scottyg17 (talk • contribs) 17:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Louvre Hotels

I agree with your comments and I'm currently looking into the history of the company etc however there isn't a lot out there. I'll update as soon as I find something

Townender