User:Kristod/sandbox

Nice comment from Coil00 to Durrus

Hello! Please read Wikipedia:Summary style for information about splitting a page in to smaller sub-pages and leaving summaries of the seperated information on the main article page. 160k is too long for an article size; this adversely affects some browsers, causing the page to be split and making articles impossible to read. (aeropagitica) 20:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Durrus, as an observation, you should construct your articles in a more narrative style. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a reservoir of facts. You need to concern yourself with the end user of your edits, someone who is looking for a readable summary of the topic, not unformatted bibliographical inforamtion.

It would seem you don't read back over edits you've made; quite a few are riddled with puncuation errors, spelling errors, illogicial sentence fragments, and out of context clauses. This would explain the multiple "clean up" request being made by other editors.

I would guess that articles are being created with regard to source, rather than topic. Also you need to state your sources. I say this both because its a fundemental requirment of the the project, but also, because, and to be fair, they are excellent, and I'm interested in tracking them down.

Hope I'm not coming down too hard, just trying to unlock the capablity of a potentially valuable editor, and you have always seemed receptive to both critism and suggestion. For what its worth, I can't spell to save my life, and am constantally corrected by other editors.

Durrus, you need to slow down, read and reread your articles, think about their structure, language, read others articles, and damn it, start copy editing.

My experience of Wikipedia is about 20% adding primary info, 80% copyediting. Anyway, thats my 10c. - Coil00 20:58, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair commentDurrus 21:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

These are not critiisms, more suggestions for room for improvement. I WANT you to stay with the project, albeit with a more foucsed and editorail approach. It's a common occurance in Wikipedia, those with facts at hand tend to wade in, fact fact fact, leaving us miserable copy editors with weeks of untaglement to sort out :)

BTY, it's usual to respond to messages by answearing in the users own talk page. No hard feelings eh - Coil00 00:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

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