User talk:Pierre Bailey
Madrid
[edit]Hi! I'm sure you're editing Wikipedia with the best of intentions, but your edits to Madrid have been highly disruptive and unhelpful and did huge damage to the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should consist of factual information. What you did was to replace a very good article with your own personal opinions about Madrid. Instead of factual encyclopedic information, you put in your own ideas about Madrid and made the whole page sound like a tourist guide. Wikipedia is not the place to paint subject we love in rosy colours, it is an encyclopedia. The information we put in should be factually correct, verifiable and sourced. Not only were your edits very subjective, they were also unorganised, lacked links to other Wikipedia pages and, I'm sorry to say, were written in poor English. While that would not have been as big a problem if you would have created a new article that others could have improved, the fact is that you replaced an earlier article that many users had contributed to in order to make it into an encyclopedic and good article. I'm sure you had the best of intentions so I'm assuming good faith in this case, but please be aware that similar edits in the future while be considered disruptive. Try to work together with other editors instead of just imposing your personal views. Thanks JdeJ (talk) 09:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
[edit]Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)