User talk:Johncarvill

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Regards, — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-12 20:52

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[edit] Your contributions to Annie Hall

Please see my comments in the Talk page of the Annie Hall article. No biggie, but hopefully we can work together to make it compliant with Wikipedia's policy on Original research. --W.marsh 21:29, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

(response to second message on my talk page)
  1. You have already been pointed in the direction of the section on original research.
  2. I have the right to edit your work because, on Wikipedia, everyone has the right to edit anyone's work. Everyone on wikipedia plays an editorial role, regardless of "real world" qualifications.
  3. You had already been notified been notified on your talk page by another user that there were problems with your addition.
  4. All of my edits and comments to you can be supported by wikipedia convention, guidelines, or policy.
  5. I will try and discover which version of which user's talk page the comment about your hostile e-mail. Your messages to me have certainly been hostile. (e.g. "What the f*** is that?", challenging my credibility, etc)
  6. The addition of the 'Clean up Tone' tag brings the article to the attention of other editors.
  7. The word 'cleverly' is POV. It is your opinion that it is clever. It may be my opinion also, and we could have a vote and we could all agree that it is "clever". It is still POV. The same is true for "But what is interesting is the unusual..." Interesting to whom?
  8. You have very little experience editing wikipedia. At the time of writing, Annie Hall is the only article you have edited in the main space (i.e. the rest have been talk and user pages). You have a total of 24 edits. I, on the other hand, have several months experience of this project, and have made nearly 4000 edits to 3007 separate articles.
  9. The point you made in your last message about my grammar was paradoxical.
  10. The paragraph beginning "As the old 1960s saying goes..." is not encyclopaedic. This is an encyclopaedia. It is not a repository for film criticism.
  11. Perhaps some of your section could be kept with an extensive rewrite. It might be acceptable to write: "Peter Cowie writes that..." That would be reflecting knowledge, not shaping or creating it.
  12. One blank line between paragraphs, not two.
  13. "External links" - note lower case 'l'
  14. Indeed, your additions should not be controversial. But hey still have to conform to the style implemented in the 700,000+ articles in the wiki.
  15. There is no such thing as 'my' article, or 'your' article, etc. "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it."
I hope these answer your questions satisfactorily.
The JPS 21:41, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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