User talk:David.cormier

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Hi, I saw you were trying to edit the Acadia article and having problems. First of all, THANK YOU for trying to add sources - lots of new editors don't know they should do that (I didn't as a newbie either). I am very interested in Acadian topics (and I am a Cormier by birth). I think your issue with adding the references is that the closing tag should be </ref> and not <ref/>. I fixed it for you. If you have any questions about technical wikithings and can't find the answer easily, drop a note on my talk page and I'll be happy to help you. Karanacs (talk) 02:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nicolas Denys

Hi David, I'm glad you're excited about the project and especially about Acadiana. One thing to note about biographies, especially of people of that time period, is that it can be okay to cover both sides of a disputed fact in the article, as long as undue weight isn't given to one. For example, I've been working on the Jim Bowie article. At times it's impossible to tell what Bowie actually did rather than what legend says, so the article has a lot of points where it talks about "so and so said this happened", to let readers make up their own minds on its validity. I'm not that familiar with Denys's life, so your issues might be totally different. Anyway, good luck, enjoy the wikiworld, and feel free to ask if you need something. Karanacs (talk) 20:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi David, good job on the article! I rerated it as start-class from the stub that it was to reflect your hard work. I did make a change that I wanted you to know about - usually wikipedia articles contain a lead section that summarizes the info in the article, and then after that there are the sections with all of the details. Since the article didn't have a lead I created one from the first sentence. I also changed some of the instances of "Nicolas Denys" to just "Denys" - that's the common way of referring to people in an article after the first instance of their name. Karanacs (talk) 14:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC) P.S. If you feel like I'm bugging you, let me know, because I'm certainly not intending to!!

Got it - the link about lead sections was very helpful! I didn't see it in the section about writing articles, but then I'm diving further in. Thank you for the edits and advise. It certainly isn't a bit of bugging! LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 21:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)