User talk:WellspringMonastery

Dear Wellspring Editors,

Thank you for your edits.

We must follow Wikipedia best practices and editing guidelines, or we risk having outside editors chop up and change our article.

Title and Honorifics: According to Wikipedia guidelines, Titles and Honorifics may be mentioned and discussed, however, the proper name of the person, and thereafter the surname only, should be used in the article. For example, "John Doe" was "Master", then later "Doe" did this and that. For that reason, we refer to "Pai" in the article, occasionally Min Pai, not "Master Pai."

Dates: There are guidelines about sounding like advertising and including relative dates. We are not to say things such as "has over 25 years experience" which fails both standards. It sounds like advertising, and next year, 25 years will not be correct, it will be 26 years, so it is a relative date, which can not be used in an encyclopedia. To improve this, you could say something like "started practicing in 1968" or "trained with so and so from 1964 to 1965." Both are factual, not relative, and would not sound like advertising.

History: The history section is about the History of the evolution of the Nabi Su Style, not a list of people associated with it. If you want to include a list of people, you can make a separate lineage paragraph, and include dates.

Duplicate Mention of Ranks: We mention that Jason achieved the rank of 5th degree once in the article. The same information need not be mentioned twice. That point is relevant in the section on his style, Budongchan Li, and should remain there. It is not relevant in the History of Nabi Su style. Alternatively, you could include this in a paragraph of Lineage and ranks, if you want to create that.

If you want me to set up and format an empty "Lineage" section, let me know and I'll get it started and you can fill in the names, dates and ranks. If you think such a section would best be left out, that's fine too. It's your call.

Mary Vaccaro (talk)

Thanks for the information. We have a log of all of the students who attended class, including dates and ranks. We do not think its necessary to include all of this information. Our main concern is that the information on this page is accurate.

Wellspring

No Lineage Necessary / Perhaps Add a Few Dates?

OK. No lineage is needed, unless you want it. Since the only people who are mentioned in the History section (other than Min Pai and the people who documented Min Pai) are Rivers and Stewart, perhaps you can add dates of when they received the 6th degree. That would make their inclusion in the History section seem less out of place. Let me know if this sounds right to you. Thanks. Mary Vaccaro (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I just want to tell you that you should not create article without content (as you did at "Min Q Pai") as it is going to be deleted. If you want to write an article slowly and you need time to do it, you can use your Sandbox (here: User:WellspringMonastery/Sandbox) or you can use the wp:draft namespace and then move the article to the wp:article namespace when you think it's ready. There is also an option called WP:Articles for creation which is a great way to write articles and also to get feedback about it. Be sure to read this before you try to write another article: WP:Your first article. Feel free to ask me anythink you want to know at my talk page. Do not reply me here, as I would not be aware. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:02, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]