User talk:Purpleprose

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The Chester wiki

I've posted this reply on the talk page of Chester, but since I wanted to be sure you would read it, I've reproduced it below. Many thanks and Best wishes. DDStretch (talk) 10:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments both here and on the discussion page for External Links. After some thought and discussion with another editor on the Cheshire Project, I've reached the conclusion that I acted a bit hastily and that I owe you and the the Chester Wiki an apology. At the moment, although some editors on wikipedia as a whole think the wiki should not be linked to, I now think a case can be made for linking to it on the article for Chester. We are not in any competition with you, and, in fact, work that helps to promote Cheshire (my own county of birth) is to be encouraged.

As an explanation, I offer up the fact that I was paying attention to the rules and existing advice offered up by Wikipedia in the context of having to deal with much trivia and vandalism of articles at the time. However, as you and my colleague, and now myself, realise, the advice I received is not really abided to in many articles on wikipedia, because if it was much of the content would be just a series of stubs, and I dealt with you unfairly as the vandalism had coloured my assessments a bit. Sp, although we are trying to improve matters, we need to make sure we are even-handed in bringing the articles up to the standards wikipedia declares should be in force, and you were being treated a bit more harshly than some others. Hence my apology.

I noticed that you believe that some articles on the Chester Wiki to be of a much higher quality than their corresponding articles on wikipedia. Can I then invite you to consider whether you or some others would be prepared to bring the articles on wikipedia up to a higher standard? They would have to use the wikipedia standards of references and citations, but it would be very helpful if you or some others felt able to do this, either on your own, or within the aegis of the Cheshire Project, which I invite you all to join and participate in. Many thanks. DDStretch (talk) 10:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)