User talk:Jim Moshinskie, PhD

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[edit] Bonnie and Clyde

Thanks so much for your contribution to the page. The material fills a gap in the story and nicely ties up the ending. I just wanted to tell you my reasoning for the reworking, which was mostly to slant it back more toward Bonnie and Clyde and less on the history of the funeral homes. I also removed just a small amount of what, for lack of a better term, Wikipedia calls "peacockry," which essentially are adjectives that someone might call point of view. I am about to finish working on referencing the rest of the article and if I find other references that match your material, I'll reference that as well.

As you somewhat noted, funerals of the rich, famous, and notorious are often treasure troves of insight into what made these persons fascinating in life. My area of real life side interest runs to forensics, crime and criminals, be that good or bad.

Thanks again, and please contact me on my talk page if you have questions, comments or just want to say hi. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Thanks for your response. I've been doing this a while, so I'm fairly familiar with the guidelines. Categories are an entity unto themselves and sometimes seem arbitrary to me, at least so far as how things are grouped into them. An established cateogry is populated from individual articles which have had a category designation added to the bottom. As an example, the article Funeral director has the categories Death, Sales Occupations and Undertaking at the bottom. The categories are added by placing the links [[Category:Death]], [[Category:Sales occupations]], and [[Category:Undertaking]] at end of the reference section. Basically, this means that whatever one wants added to the category must have an article. You can search to see if an article exists, and if not, create one. Then there are the subcategories within the main category, which serve to further group articles. An article shouldn't be listed in both the main category and a subcategory, as that essentially double lists it. I hope that helps. Thanks! Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)