User talk:Rhone Angel

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Hello, Rhone Angel, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Bonny Doon Vineyard

Hello, I see that you made a substantial edit to the Bonny Doon Vineyard article. However you edit was in violation of numerous Wikipedia policies and guidelines so it was removed from the main article. However, I do believe you edit was done in good faith and has the potential to be a very constructive addition to the encyclopedia. Rather than delete the material, I moved it to a sandbox page User:Rhone Angel/Bonny Doon Draft that you can use as a draft in bringing the material in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Here are some the pertinent policies and issues that you will need to work with....

WP:MOS - Manual of Style issues. First and foremost, your edit neglected to include a WP:LEAD section and follow MOS guidelines on section heading, wiki-links and style. In addition to reviewing the Manual of Style, I would also take a look at the style and format that other winery articles are written in such as Chateau Montelena, King Estate Winery and Château Palmer
WP:CITE & WP:RS - Citing reliable sources. This is one of these most important considerations for an encyclopedia. Having a list of WP:EL external links at the bottom of a page does not constitute citing your sources. Again you probably want to take a look at the above winery articles for examples of how to craft a well referenced article.
WP:NPOV & WP:ADVERT - You must keep in mind we are writing an encyclopedia, not a WP:WINEGUIDE or sales brochure for Bonny Doon. The information included in the article should be of encyclopedic merit and not written like a sales pitch or something that would be on the back wine label of a bottle. An example from your edit would be the wine descriptions. While it would be encyclopedic to include a list of grapes that Bonny Doon uses to make wine or unique wine styles, it is very WP:ADVERT-like to include descriptions of those wine as if it was something on a restaurant wine list.

I hope this helps. I thank you for your enthusiasm in contributing to Wikipedia and I encourage you to continue contributing. It takes a little while to figure out how things work but reading the guidelines above will give you very solid footing. After you have reworked the draft, feel free to re-add the text to the article. If you have any questions, feel free to drop by the Wine Project's talk page. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 03:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Note: Do see your talk page on Commons as well. Wikimedia Commons is for free licensed images only. Do not upload copyrighted works by others unless you have permission to release them under a free license, otherwise they will be deleted. If you have questions you can't find an answer to, do ask. Hope this helps. -- Infrogmation (talk) 09:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]