User talk:Victorian Military Society

I am confused. What is the purpose of the "user page" if it is not to inform readers about the user?

The article does not solicit subscriptions, articles for our journal, nor have any mention of the Society's address or website. It simply explains what we do and gives some brief notes about the Society's history which we felt may be of interest.

It was based on the page created by the charity "Save the Children".

Would the deletion of the references to our journal "Soldiers of the Queen" be sufficient?

However, what I do think Wikipedia needs to do is have a review of its instruction pages for new users as, having read them, I felt what I had written was acceptable.

Is your long term aim to create an article about the Victorian Military Society? Addhoc 13:26, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the text to Victorian Military Society, despammed and formatted. I've removed the speedy delete and hang-on tags, but the article has no sources and may be liable to deletion on that basis. Jimfbleak 15:13, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this.

Our aim is to use the information the Society has to create stubs or articles for topics that do not already exist. We've already submitted the first one on "The Duke of York's Lancers (Skinner's Horse)" and we want to do others.

Plus we've added a couple of references to articles where our journal has further reading that might be of interest.

Our intention (in line with our charitable purpose) is to make the info we have available to a wider audience.

However, if we're citing books written by Society members or the Society's journal as a source, surely Wikipedia readers have a right to know exactly who these "VMS" guys are and whether what they say is reliable or not. That was my intention when I wrote the item for the user page and it's what I thought the user page was for. If it's not, what should I put on the user page?