User talk:RayForma

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Hello, RayForma, 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!  Hey good to see you working on the Cape to Cape track! Hope you enjoy wikipedia SatuSuro 05:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

A big problem is you are identifying yourself in your user name - and you are writing in an unecyclopediac form about something you are the author of. There are Wikipedia polices that cut across this. You need either to have a chat offline - about all of this - or a possiblle tagging from a less negtoiable admin or editor who might take wikipedia polices a lot more seriously...SatuSuro 06:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

BTW - I endorse what the admin below is saying - please feel free to contact him - he's well worth knowing - and has a good sense of what is possible SatuSuro 04:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cape to Cape Track

Hello Ray, Thanks for your nice article - I've heard about the walk and would love to do it (some anyway). I think I will now find myself a copy of the guidebook and perhaps put words into action!

I presume most of it is a precis from the guidebook. If so, It may be worth declaring your authorship of that here in case at some later date someone accuses you of copyright infringement. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and if there's any suggestion of plagiarism then the article will be deleted. I cannot see why you cannot contribute though - as the statement below the edit screen says: "Content that violates any copyright will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL." Articles must not create a conflict of interest.

The article did need some copyediting to conform to Wikipedia style. Would you have access to any photographs and/or maps of the Track which are "free" or public domain? These would improve the article considerably IMHO. Images can be uploaded by clicking on the 'upload file' button on the left of screen. Such images need to show a suitable license.

Some more external references are also needed as all content in the encyclopaedia must be verifiable. Perhaps you have some - I've marked the article where these are needed with "citation needed".

If you need any help, just ask on my talk page. —Moondyne 04:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

..I can't work out how to show that some of the content of the article also appears in books about the Track that I have published.. RayForma 05:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
You could just make short statement to that affect on the article talk page, OR you could say the same on your own user page. Many Wikipedians write a little about themselves there, particularly if they've had any work published. —Moondyne 05:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)