User talk:Mattyboy1066

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Anatomy Wikiproject!

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing wikipedia articles are:

Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
You will make a big difference to the quality of information by adding reliable sources. Sourcing anatomy articles is essential and makes a big difference to the quality of articles. And, while you're at it, why not use a book to source information, which can source multiple articles at once!
We try and use a standard way of arranging the content in each article. That layout is here. These headings let us have a standard way of presenting the information in anatomical articles, indicate what information may have been forgotten, and save angst when trying to decide how to organise an article. That said, this might not suit every article. If in doubt, be bold!
We write for a general audience. Every reader should be able to understand anatomical articles, so when possible please write in a simple form -- most readers do not understand anatomical jargon. See this essay for more details.

Feel free to contact us on the WikiProject Anatomy talk page if you have any problems, or wish to join us. I wish you all the best on your wiki-voyages!

Welcome but...

Welcome!

Hello, Mattyboy1066, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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But...

You will see that I edited fairly heavily your addition to Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor. The problem is that you ought not to attach national significance to an issue that is really only significant at a county level. But more importantly within the rules of Wikipedia, you must not write your own opinion about its significance (see wp:OR, WP:SYN). Of course if you can find a statement made by a reliable source, you can and even should report it. If you live near Millbrook, please be conscious of the conflict of interest and wp:soapbox policies.

Please don't be discouraged by all this! We all learn by experimenting and making mistakes. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:03, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if I agree with this -- the incinerator was deemed to be of national significance, so how can it be local? I shall try to find the exact reference to this... Mattyboy1066 (talk) 21:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My thoughts were along the lines of how does it matter to anyone in Newcastle or Exeter, let alone Edinburgh or Belfast. But my opinion is equally irrelevant! So yes please search for a reference. If it is a newspaper, it needs to be a national (not Bedfordshire Today or the Milton Keynes Citizen).--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:53, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]