User talk:STARZELLI

If anyone can help me edit articles better, that would be great! Thanks.

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Since you asked....

A few pointers:

1. The Wikipedia style for capitalizing headings is to use "sentence case" instead of "title case", e.g.,

Policies, platforms and initiatives

not:

Policies, Platforms and Initiatives

Wikipedia has, for better or worse, chosen to follow this style, i.e., capitalize the heading the same way you would capitalize any sentence:

capitalize the first word,
capitalize any proper nouns (people, places, organizations), and
begin all other words with lower case letters.

See WP:MSH for more information.

2. Don`t link Republican and Democrat. If you click through to these links, you`ll see that they aren`t very useful. It is better to pipe the link to the correct article, like this: [[Ohio Republican Party|Republican]].

3. 'He is currently the speaker...' and 'She serves currently as Chairperson...' mean the same thing as 'He is the Speaker...' and 'She serves as Chairperson...', don`t they? 'Currently' in both of these sentences is redundant -- the present tense of the verbs indicate the present state or condition, so there is no need here to use 'currently'.

4. We don`t link years in Wikipedia anymore. People used to do it as a matter of course, but now it is discouraged.

5. The usual heading is 'External links' instead of just 'Links'. Using standard headings helps readers navigate through articles.

I hope this helps. Thank you for your contributions so far, and keep up the good work! Ground Zero | t 03:43, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Ground Zero | t 03:43, 10 February 2011 (UTC) Thanks for the pointers, I'll take them into account as I continue to learn.[reply]

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