User talk:BARRY DOMINIC GRAHAM

George Beattie

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Using caps lock

Hi Barry, when you type in Wikipedia, can you use small letters instead of caps? Typing in caps is considered shouting in Wikipedia, per WP:SHOUT. Thanks. Arctic Kangaroo 11:07, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

This includes edit summaries. "wiki suggested corrections" is easier to read. Thanks in advance. Apteva (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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Beattie changes

Hello again, I saw some of the changes you made to the article and have a few concerns and addressed one of them myself. First off, you marked several major edits as minor. There are only certain instances when you should mark an edit as minor. Secondly, a lot of the material you added regarding his failed engagement to Miss William Gibson and subsequent suicide is unsourced and worded in a non-neutral fashion. You should clearly back this material with sourcing and change the wording to be more of an objective description.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 20:52, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi there... just trying to figure out the process on Wiki. Thank you for all your assistance thus far. I must tell you that this Project myself and my co-researcher are working on (George Beattie), has unfortunately never been touched by anyone for 150 years and that no genuine research has, until now, ever been actually done. Thomas Henderson (1885) who has been given much credit on the Wiki page has merely written a short summary of the only biography of George Beattie ever written, with no research involved whatsoever, there are errors on the info of his link. The only biography, written by A.S. Mt. Cyrus is certainly not verifiable or totally reliable by any means, but it is the only one in existence, written 40 years after Beattie's death. My co-researcher and myself, because this subject is local to us and a profitless labour of love, have uncovered details and errors previously unearthed, by hard work in the National Archives of Scotland both online and on site in Edinburgh, at great personal expense, to ensure, for the first time, the most accurate information possible. I realise that my text may seem rather dramatic at times, but this is the nature of this story, which for some reason has been left to fade into oblivion. George Beattie was regarded by local journalists at the time of his death, to be the most popular and beloved man in the entire town of Montrose, but now, there is not a single plaque or rememberance of any kind there to the memory of his unusual benevolence and literary genius. All details and dramatic descriptions are sourced from the only biography in existence of George Beattie and all facts that I have provided are directly from the National Archives and can be fully verified. I sincerely hope that our work on this page is acceptable to Wiki, as not only does it mean a great deal to us to have the essence of his story captured as accurately as possible, but, I am 99.9% sure that no-one else will contribute a thing to this page, as I have discovered to my dismay, that we have been the only researchers to have ever seriously worked on this particular subject. We will be giving a few presentations to the local institutions of Montrose in September and need to be able to back up everything we have found as there has been, and is, a great deal of erroneous misinformation being accepted as fact due to the rarity of factual source material of which myself an co-researcher have been fortunate enough to be in the possession of. Thanks again for your guidance. Sincerely, Barry D. Graham.

Articles should not contain "dramatic descriptions" of a subject as that is not the purpose of Wikipedia. Content in the editorial voice should be written in a dispassionate tone.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 16:45, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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