User talk:HIST406-10110425205Brownley

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Horsehair

Hi.

I'm afraid I've reverted your changes again at Horsehair. You have removed too much of the existing material, and the new material is of too poor quality, or not in Wikipedia style. I won't go through everything, but I'll give some examples here:

Articles are introduced by a lead paragraph, which does not have a heading. The heading "Horsehair" is therefore unnecessary.
The headword in the definition is in bold.
Subjects are defined, not words, so we say "horsehair is", not "horsehair refers to".
We don't contract words: we say "it is", not "it's".
Spelling and grammar needs to be correct. For example, possessives have apostrophes ("horse's mane"); one speculates about something.
Avoid introducing random inaccuracies: for example, horsehair is not gathered from wild horses!
Do not remove existing queries without resolving them. Similarly do not remove existing references (actually, I can't tell if you have: see below).

I'd like to encourage you to edit the article, which could certainly do with improvement. However, there's no point in changes which do not improve the article. Can I suggest that you change just one or two things at a time, and wait for responses before doing more? If you change too much at a time it's hard to compare the old with the new, and you risk all your changes being reverted. Richard New Forest (talk) 21:40, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]