User talk:Goldenlane

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Hello, Goldenlane, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  --Concrete Cowboy 13:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Milton Keynes

Your edits to the Milton Keynes article are reasonably valid in themselves, but as currently written are too detailed for the main article (which is already too long). On the other hand, the History of Milton Keynes is very thin for the Milton Keynes Development Corporation years. So may I suggest that you transfer the material you have written to the History article, then summarise it for the main article? Please remember to cite sources and keep personal opinion to a minimum. NB also that you should sign contributions to talk pages but never to articles. --Concrete Cowboy 13:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Milton keynes public art

The article you wrote, Milton keynes public art, is uncategorized. Please help improve it by adding it to one or more categories, so it may be associated with related articles. A stub marker or other template doesn't count - please put in an actual category in the article.Eli Falk 13:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I've moved it to Art in Milton Keynes and categorised it. --Concrete Cowboy 13:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of Milton Keynes

I don't understand what you were trying to do by cutting and pasting all those categories into History of Milton Keynes. If you would like some help, please leave a message at my talk page. --Concrete Cowboy 17:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

We are trying to get the History of MK article to achieve WP:Good article status. Please see talk:Milton Keynes. The task we have now is to provide neutral sources for the opinions, many of which you added. (I agree with them all, they certainly look professional, the problem is that if they are our own opinions then they don't count - see WP:Cite). If you have any text-books, journals, references that have said the same things, it would be great if you could provide them. If you don't have time to use the formal methods for citing, just leave the info on talk:Milton Keynes or on my talk page. --Concrete Cowboy 12:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Le_Corbusier

Thanks for your edits at Le_Corbusier. Note that material added to our encyclopedia, need to be supported by sources. If you are familiar with the subject, information about the sources you used for the material you recently added would be very useful. If you don't know how to add sources to the article, simply provide that info at the talk page of Le_Corbusier, and someone will help you with it. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 22:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Melvin Webber

If you want to see how to cite references, I've fixed the footnotes in the article Melvin M Webber that you began. It's great that you are now citing sources - the more the better. Incidentally, you might be interested in Category:Urban studies and planning --Concrete Cowboy 18:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Golden Lane Estate

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Golden Lane Estate, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, attribution, and autobiography.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

All of what User:Beetstra has said above is true, and I can see why he has said it. But I certainly believe you have edited in good faith (and left a note at User talk:Beetstra#Golden Lane Estate to explain why I think so). Fundamentally, though, you must provide citations for what you write. You must not praise the project yourself, but you may certainly quote from reliable source books that praise it. Otherwise it really does look seriously like you are trying to talk up the property values. --Concrete Cowboy 12:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I had a closer look, and indeed, a conflict of interest seems not to be the case here, you appear to be a fan of this site. I did put it up on WP:COIN (and I did not really know at that point what to do, and hoped for some second opinions), but have withdrawn the entry. I am sorry about this. Have a nice day! --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Milton Keynes

You may be interested in a proposed WikiProject Milton Keynes. I proposed the idea to gauge how much interest it will attract. Please leave your interest and any comments at the proposal page, we'd love to hear from you. Regards, SeveroTC 22:53, 25 July 2007 (UTC)