User talk:Stivemeister
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Your submission at Articles for creation
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~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 02:13, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- And again.
~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 18:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
- And again. ~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 03:34, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
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Ward Morehouse
[edit]Thank you for your message on my talk page.
I am puzzled by it, because I have no memory of helping you with this article (though this may be caused by the beer I have been drinking this evening). I do recall reading your posting to the Help Desk. I see it has now been archived, and the thread does not include a contribution from me.
I have now looked at the article Ward Morehouse, and I have some comments.
- It is basically clear, unbiassed, and well-written. In my personal opinion, it does not deserve to be deleted. But I have no influence over that decision. I did edit it a bit, making the language slightly less flowery and POV; but there was no serious bias.
- It has a section titled "references", but it does not contain what the Wikipedia authorities regard as references. Indeed, the article has no references (in the approved sense) at all, and is, I suspect, likely to be deleted for this reason. An acceptable reference is linked to from the body of the article, and confirms an assertion made in the article. Like this: the earth goes round the sun.[1] Then at the bottom of the article, you include the word "reflist" in double braces.
- It includes the statement "Morehouse ... had two children, a daughter and a son, with Broadway actress Joan Marlowe. Ward Morehouse III also became a drama critic and writer." I think there is a mistake here, the subject of the article and his son can't both be W.M.III.
Maproom (talk) 21:32, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Stivemeister (talk) 00:01, 20 August 2012 (UTC)August 19, 2012
Thanks for responding so quickly. I appreciate it. Perhaps the confusion stems from another article written about my subject's father, Ward Morehouse (or more accurately -- although the article isn't titled as such -- Ward Morehouse II)? I broach this because my article does have the references linked to from the body of the article for confirmation. It also has the "reflist" in double brackets at the end of my article. Finally, my article does not contain the statement "Morehouse ... had two children, a daughter and a son, with Broadway actress Joan Marlowe. Ward Morehouse III also became a drama critic and writer." That sentence appears in the article about Ward III's father, which was written by someone else. I hasten to add that this person's article is in error because the daughter was sired with the first wife Ruth, and NOT Joan Marlowe. Perhaps the confusion can be straightened out by following this pasted link which should take you to the article I've written and submitted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Ward_Morehouse_III
I think that some way,some how, the wrong article has been reviewed and ascribed to me instead of the one I submitted. Would you be willing to follow the link and check this out for me? As I stated in my earlier posting, when I call my article up, it has everything the editors tell me it hasn't. I appreciate your help very much! Stivemeister (talk)Stivemeister
- I don't know how to check that.
- I recommend that whenever you ask someone to look at an article on Wikipedia, you give a link to it, so that they look at the right article. I have now had a quick look at Ward Morehouse.
- Something that is really weird, and annoying, about it, is all the fake blue links, like this. A reader of Wikipedia will expect words and phrases in blue to be links to other WIkipedia articles. Yours aren't, and do nothing when clicked on. I strongly recommend you to remove them before your article gets reviewed.
- I also see that your references 1, 2 and 4 somehow don't quite work properly. The "^" characters to the left of the references ought to be links back into the article, to where the citation is; but for those three, they aren't. That also ought to be fixed. Maproom (talk) 17:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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Mabeenot (talk) 23:17, 4 October 2012 (UTC)