User talk:Klhrdy

Hello Kevin, nice to finally meet you online. Odenhem (talk) 19:46, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Mentors, and online ambassadors

hey. There's an Online Ambassador program etc., and it has a list of mentors. I'm sure some of them will check in to offer their services. Ping me or any one of them for any kind of advice or help. • Ling.Nut 02:32, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

I'm Fetchcomms, and I'm an online ambassador with the Public Policy Initiative. I saw that you've already gotten started with your article, but I don't think you have a mentor yet. If not, I'd be glad to be your mentor :) If you already have one, or aren't sure yet, tell me, too. To let me know, reply on this page and let me know you have replied by clicking here, not changing the "Subject/headline", and just signing in the text box (enter ~~~~). Thanks, and happy editing! /ƒETCH COMMS / 02:24, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Hey Fetchkomms, I'd definitely appreciate you mentoring the page if you have time. I'm trying to do the best I can with it, but if you have any suggestions, let me know. Thanks.

No problem :) A tip; remember to sign your posts on talk pages (like the message just above) by adding four tildes (~~~~). Thanks, and I'll look over your article soon. /ƒETCH COMMS / 17:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

note

hi Kevin, i noted some information about the replacement of files in your draft on the workbench, all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hi Kevin, I started the first steps of the Seelbach Hotel review you requested ~three days ago. if i dig out something substantial new or helpfull => I ll note it on the workbench (tomorrow, hopefully). so far: as first article well above wikipedia average ;O), all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 15:23, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the upper comment is yours, all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 16:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Klhrdy/TheSeelbach

Hi Klhrdy, I'm Fetchcomms, your mentor. I looked over your draft on the Seelbach, and here are some suggestions:

Start off article by bolding the name of the article and just saying what it is. Also mention alternate names, but make sure to title the article by its most well known (or current) name. For example:

The Seelbach Hilton, previously the Seelbach Hotel, is a hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded by Bavarian-born immigrant brothers Louis and Otto Seelbach in 1905. etc. etc.

Note, only bold the name of the article's subject in the first sentence.

You use the same book as a reference 13 times. You are currently changing the citation style (like "Johnson, The Seelbach, 18." etc.); this is good, and should be done for all the citations to the book by Johnson. However, a more standardized style is like Johnson 2005, p. 18. You might consider using this more widely-seen format, rather than "Lastname, title, #."

A small detail about the page numbers: when you use multiple pages (pp. 16–18, for example), don't use a hyphen. Use an endash (–) without spaces on the sides. (Now, at the beginning of your article, you use the dashes correctly "... Seelbach Hilton – was ...", but for numbers, don't add the spaces next to the dash.)

It looks like you are somewhat close to finishing, so good work :) If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reply to me here or leave a new post on my talk page. Cheers, /ƒETCH COMMS / 18:01, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There have been issues raised elsewhere about possible plagiarism in your article, Seelbach Hotel. Would you please quickly go back, make sure you didn't do any close paraphrasing, and reword anything that is close to the original source? This is a serious matter; the text in question is "The famous Bavarian-style Rathskellar, decorated with rare Rookwood Pottery, remains to this day the only surviving ensemble of its kind", which is very close to this page that you cited. Please note that even if you cite something, you can't copy it the wording that closely unless you quote it with " and ". I hope this issue isn't major in your article and that it was an accident, but please, you need to go back and fix it immediately. Also, some less pressing but still significant issues is the neutrality of the article. "The Continuing Legacy" section reads rather promotional; it might be better just to remove that. Sentences elsewhere, like "as well as close and convenient access to some of Louisville's best theatre, music venues, other nightlife, and shopping", are not verifiable, as "close and convenient" and "Louisville's best" are both opinions, not indisputable facts. The same goes for "The hotel continues to be a quintessential landmark of Louisville", as "quintessential" is opinion and that sentence shouldn't be there unless you are quoting some source calling it quintessential.

I understand that you have a lot going on in school right now, but the issue with the possible plagiarism is not a small problem, and I'm not exaggerating or trying to make your life difficult on purpose. Lastly, you might want to look at this source for more information you can add later on if you feel like the article needs more content. Thanks, /ƒETCH COMMS / 22:33, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free files in your user space

Hey there Klhrdy, thank you for your contributions. I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Klhrdy/TheSeelbach. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page.

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Response to Fetchcomms

Hi Fetchcomms,

First of all, I want to thank you for taking the time to look over my article for me. I had no idea that I had used language so closely related to the source, because that line was one of the ones taken from the original article that I completely replaced, or at least I am almost sure. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to go back and access that. I never intended to plagiarize, I never plagiarize, and I am very aware of the seriousness of this all. I am shocked I may have been a little bit free with the citations because I thought that since this was an encyclopedia encompassing factual information, the less I edited things, the more it was likely to be included. I will definitely use the quotes next time, or paraphrase much further from the mark. I'm terribly sorry about this, like I said, even a suspected incident of intentional plagiarism makes me shudder and almost physically sick.

I had that same thought on the continuing legacy part, I thought it needed something, but to be honest it's completely irrelevant to the hotel itself. I need to work on the editorial aspects of the article – that's what I write like most of the time, and I need to realize I'm sticking to facts here.

If there's anything else, please let me know. I apologize that I took so long to get back to you. I made an edit to that line, please look it over and let me know if that is too editorial, too closely paraphrased, etc. I'll be going through and working on all of your other suggestions too, i just wanted to take care of that vital issue immediately.

Klhrdy (talk) 03:27, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; thanks for just clearing this up. I was asking because there has, unfortunately, been a rash of intentional plagiarism around DYK and other areas, and I didn't want you getting caught up in it. Thanks, /ƒETCH COMMS / 15:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Fetchcomms, what exactly is DYK? Klhrdy (talk) 14:20, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, figured it out, "Did You Know" Status.Klhrdy (talk) 14:22, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Seelbach Hotel

On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Seelbach Hotel, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, was frequented by Al Capone, who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

-- Cirt (talk) 00:05, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kevin, a (late) congratulations on getting your article onto the Did You Know section on the Wikipedia front page! As you probably saw, the work you did on the Seelbach Hotel article was viewed by more than two thousand people on November 7th! Great job, and keep it up! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 07:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]