User talk:Klif moor-burton
Welcome
[edit]Hello, Klif moor-burton, and welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some pages that new editors often find helpful:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
- Biographies of living persons guidelines
- Conflict of interest guidelines
Be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} here on your talk page and ask your question. Someone will come along to help. Voceditenore (talk) 12:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
February 2011
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Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Alma Julia Hightower, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. tedder (talk) 22:52, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- Hello there. While we appreciate you adding an article about a notable subject, you really need to get a handle on editing first, as you are very inexperienced. If you want to experiment on making an infobox do it at User:Klif moor-burton/sandbox. Don't use a live article to experiment. One of the main problems is that you keep using <br> in the formatting. This is not used in Wikipedia. Simply hit the space bar twice to start a new paragraph and it should never be used in footnotes or infoboxes.
You also to be aware that there are a lot problems involved in writing or editing articles for Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest—in the case of a biography, a personal or professional conection with the subject.
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest will give you general guidelines when editing under these circumstances. Editing when you have a conflict of interest often results in some specific problems. The following guidelines will explain what they are and how to avoid them.
- This is a biography of a living person. Nothing should go into that article which is not meticulously referenced to a previously published and reliable source which verfies it. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original research, and information about the subject which has not been published elsewhere does not belong in the article, even if you know it to be true. For guidance on these key Wikipedia policies see:
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
- All articles must be written in an encyclopedic style, maintain a neutral point of view and above all must be free of promotional language ("peacockery" in Wikispeak). Something which is very important to avoid is a "Quotes" section containing cherry-picked quotes with only positive things said about the person's work. It's fine to have a "Critical reception" section, but then it needs to be balanced with the good and the less good things which critics have written about the subject's works. One good reason to ensure that there is no promotional tone in the article is that it often prompts other editors to add material like this. Even though it is usually reverted promptly, it's still unpleasant. Guidance on these issues can be found at:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (words to watch)
- This is a biography of a living person. Nothing should go into that article which is not meticulously referenced to a previously published and reliable source which verfies it. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original research, and information about the subject which has not been published elsewhere does not belong in the article, even if you know it to be true. For guidance on these key Wikipedia policies see:
Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 18:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)