User talk:Will Dockery

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Welcome!

Hello, Will Dockery, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Hi Will

My welcome to you as well. I just thought I'd let you know that it's a principle here that we don't make articles about ourselves. I'm not going to suggest Will Dockery gets removed, since you seem to be deserving of an article (sorry about the tentativeness, but my knowledge of American Poetry is about zero). Anyway, I thought I would let you know. Have fun editing.

DJ Clayworth 30 June 2005 13:44 (UTC)

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[edit] Hello again, DJC!

Yes, I found Wikipedia just a couple of hours ago, and perhaps jumped in too fast..!

I'll spend some time getting to know the area better before I do /too/ much, although I hope to begin by writing a piece [already written, just need to copy and paste it and edit it] on Royston Ellis, an obscure English poet who knew the Beatles... and suggested they change their name from /Beetles/ to /Beatles/.

Probably later today or tonight....

Will Dockery

[edit] Minicomics

Hi, Will. It's great that you want to add more depth to the Minicomic article, but may I suggest a different approach. A list like the one you're adding, since it could potentially be very long, probably belongs in a separate article - List of minicomics creators - with a "See also" link from the main article. See Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) and Wikipedia:Embedded list. Also, although it's really tempting to try to make Wikipedia the most authoritative guide to every single minicomic/zine artist, I don't think it's really possible or desirable. This stuff (especially postal addresses) changes so often, and there are so many people who just do one or two things, that it's like trying to put the phone book in WP. It'd be more appropriate to make the list just include "notable" artists - an incredibly vague guideline, but basically I'd include people who have produced a considerable body of work and/or been widely recognized by critics outside the zine scene, like Feazell or Porcellino: basically the same criteria you'd use to decide whether someone's ready for their own Wikipedia article, and the WP guidelines for lists (see above) state that list articles should really be lists of links to things that have their own articles. There should certainly also be external links to web resources that provide up-to-date listings, addresses, etc. - preferably ones that are not also distros/stores (since that's sort of like giving the WP seal of approval to one particular business), but that one site you added might be OK if it's not the only one. I hope I'm making sense... ←Hob July 4, 2005 00:12 (UTC)

[edit] To Hob

All good points, and at the very least I'll move the list to a seperate annex, and trim the list from obvious unknowns... which I could probably use feedback on, since my remembrance of small press comix are from the 1980s mostly. I would still like to keep some of the creators who are legendary in small press, but by the very nature of small press, are not known to the general public, such as Tim Corrigan, Steve Keeter, Ian Shires, et al.

Sounds good - someone who's done a lot in their field is notable whether the general public (most of whom don't read any minicomics at all) knows about it or not; ultimately we should have articles on such guys, and it sounds like you have a lot to contribute.
Also, another Wikipedia tip: when someone leaves you a talk page note, it's best to reply on their talk page (and sign it with ~~~~) - even though it makes it harder to follow the conversations at a glance, they're more likely to see the reply. ←Hob July 4, 2005 15:53 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia! Good to see your enthusiasm in using the resources of the Jewish Encyclopedia to help Wikipedia grow.

If the instructions on the project page did not state things clearly enough and instead puzzled or misled you, I send you my apologies. The pages named A-Z, ordered under the heading "Alphabetical listing", are intended to provide a directory of topics from the JE which are missing from Wikipedia. If you wish to integrate text from a JE entry into Wikipedia, either click on the red link on the list to start a new article (if Wikipedia lacks that topic), or merge the text into an appropriate, pre-existing Wikipedia article. JE text should be pasted onto proper articles in Wikipedia, not onto the pages allocated for the directory.

In your case, you are interested in adapting the JE articles on Baal and Golem for Wikipedia. Because Wikipedia already has entries on these topics, any additional information that you find on the JE should go into the existing Wikipedia articles entitled Baal and Golem. I have moved the work you did on the JE texts from the directory into an extension of your user page: User:Will_Dockery/Temp. You can edit and revise the texts there to your heart's content before inserting them into the actual articles.

The lists for the remaining letters of the alphabet will be posted soon. In the meantime, you are welcome to work on integrating the text from any JE article into wikipedia, even if the article hasn't appeared on the lists currently available.

Looking forward to your contributions. Happy editing!--Defrosted 4 July 2005 09:56 (UTC)

P.S. Only the text of the 1901-6 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia, available at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com, has entered the public domain and can therefore be freely copied into Wikipedia. I have just noticed that you are basing your research on the 1962 Jewish Encyclopedia, which probably remains protected by copyright. Since you intend to acknowledge and rewrite the 1962 material into your own words, that should not pose any problems of copyright infringement.

[edit] Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight

As a member of WikiProject Comics, I thought you might be interested in the Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight we have set up. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help. Steve block talk 15:26, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source

Your Bob Harvey image will be a candidate for deletion unless you source where the image is from. Thanks. --Eeee 20:10, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


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