User talk:Smudge777

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[edit] May 2007

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Gunter nimtz. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. Thank you. Kim dent brown 08:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gunter Nimtz

Smudge - I apologise for the hasty way I put the 'speedy deletion' tag on the webpage. Let me explain how it happened. I was doing some patrolling for recent changes, refreshing the New pages article to see what was coming up. As you'll know if you've done this, some pretty wacky and laughable articles come through, often at great speed, and I thought at first site that yours was one of them. The reason for this was that it had no Wikilinks out to other articles, and no incoming links from other articles. There were no in-line citations or references, no 'see also' or external links. And then of course there's the 'four times faster than light' claim, which was repeated uncritically and without the claim being explained or placed in context.

Now, I should have Googled Gunter Nimtz to see if he was real or not, and I apologise that I didn't. But everything about the article you posted made it look like yet another joke article posted by a bored 10th grade student in school one afternoon! This is obviously an interesting subject (though one I have little knowledge about) and I'd support you in trying to rewrite a good article here. I'll try myself and make start on something to repair the damage - I'll do so on a sandbox article on my user pages here and will post it to a main Wikipedia article once I have a reasonable stub set up. Please feel free to edit my sandox page, or of course the article once I post it. Kim dent brown 09:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Reply posted on your user talk page. Thanks for the response.

• Article stub is now here. Good luck if you feel like improving it!! Kim dent brown 10:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)