User talk:RainbowWiki

Welcome[edit]

Hello RainbowWiki and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 05:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Externalism[edit]

I have just been reading through the article you created. I can see that you have put a lot of work into it. I do have a concern though - it reads more like a term paper or essay than an encyclopedia article. Please take a look at the articles on similar concepts and see how they are written and see if you can mirror the tone and structure in this article. I am not sure I can help with the content as it is not my field, but you may be able to enlist some help at the talk page of the Philosophy Wikiproject. Please leave me a message on my talk page if you need help. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 05:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. I don't think there are any major issues, but some of the language isn't quite what one would find in an encyclopedia, phrases such as "By and large", "it is fair to say", "Finally, it must be mentioned", "As it was mentioned at the start", etc make it sound essay like. I will leave a message on the talk page I mentioned above and see if someone else will pitch in and review. – ukexpat (talk) 14:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the e-mail. Certainly go ahead and make changes to the article -- you don't need to ask! – ukexpat (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]