User talk:Theobrad

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EMsmile (talk) 10:11, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for thankyou

Have been updating references on various articles so glad this helped :) Richard Nowell (talk) 15:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

W. David Marx

Fantastic work on the article. SL93 (talk) 21:36, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! What got you editing the Edna Hibel article? Theobrad (talk) 21:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I came across her name on accident while searching for potential topics for new articles. I don't remember where I first came across her though. SL93 (talk) 21:49, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Smart cities article

I noticed you added a lot of content to the Smart Cities article, which was mostly pretty well cited and definitely helped the article. Putting this up to say that I ended up deleting a decent bit of your "need for smart cities" section: you added a lot of examples of problems, but while you cited that they existed, you didn't cite anything describing their relevance to smart cities. I also deleted the second half of your Cities in the digital era section: it cited two articles describing growth in processors and one (City of Bits) that seemed to mostly describe cyberspace, and did not mention smart cities, none of which sourced there being important changes due to modern technology. A lot of the content you added (while it is useful) reads more like an essay or like a report than like a Wikipedia article: I'd recommend trying to put the conclusion in the first sentence, and then go into increasing detail from there (that's what I do). Mrfoogles (talk) 03:58, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A few of the section titles are also reading a bit like a scientific report. In my experience, Wikipedia section titles are usually short if possible (though it varies a lot), don't have subtitles, and the convention is to not capitalize after the first word. Mrfoogles (talk) 04:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mrfoogles.

Thank you so much for your feedback. When I have more time I will go through and edit more of the article to make it more Encyclopaedic. I think because the topic is very much still in academic circles, with so much debate about what is and what isn't a smart city initiative. That is why theory dominates so much of the discussion. However, I definitely need to counteract that to make it more readable and Encylopaedic. A tricky challenge but I'll give it a go! Theobrad (talk) 10:29, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]