Talk:John Dickenson (author)

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This article has been tagged by a Wikipedia administrator as follows: "The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines."

I understand this article is still in development. One immediate way to beguin fulfill Wikipedia standard is to begin to add verifiable and legitimate references (foot notes). The reflist tag (Reference section) has just been added so you may beguin to add references (and notes and footnotes):

Procedure: Place a < ref> ... </ref> (ref tag) where you want a footnote reference number to appear in an article—type the text of the note between the ref tags. Automatically, a reference number will be designated and the footnote is shown in the 'Reference' section of the article. Specialized tags for bibliography are also available.

A complete and detailed editing resource is available at [1]. Good luck!

BatteryIncluded 12:12, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article Purpose?

Wikipedia administrators will closely monitor this article content since it has been taged for content "clean up" and format style. Since the title is "John Dickenson" it is expected to produce a biography with only a side-note on his work achievements that make him a notable person. It seems to me -as an observing editor and being somewhat familiar with Wikipedia policies and standards- that long and detailed analysis and discussions of what constitutes a hang glider, hang glider definition, etc. is material out of the scope of a biography and best documented and discused in this Discussion page or, if wished to be published in Wikipedia, they must be under an appropriate title, such as "John Dickenson's Aircraft", and follow established article formats and presentation.

Please study this specific link to comply with Wikipedia's standards and formats required for a biogrphy and therefore, obtain removal of all warning tags:

Manual of Style (biographies): [2]. Manual of Style (or style guide) is to provide guidelines for maintaining visual and textual consistency.

Keep in mind that discussions of material that needs to be developed should be presented in this Discusion page, not in the main article text. But if a very specific reference is needed for certain statement, simply add { {fact}} without spaces next to the statement, and it will show as {{Fact}}. Detailed editing help and instructions are available at Help:Table or [3]

Note that this article was NOT tagged for deletion, but to develop it focused on a biography and clean up, and cite references; All following established guidelines. So it seems Wikipedia administrators will give this biography article plenty of time to clean up and develop it strictly as a biography. Consider that the section entitled "Annotated Claims by Someone About The Aircraft JD Made in 1963 in Australia" and similar parragraphs are editors' discussions and statements that -per wikipedia standards- are best done here, the Discussion tab, not in the main text. Good luck. BatteryIncluded 14:41, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]