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test Bkenner 14:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
not to delete. i only tried to send fink a message. Bkenner 14:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Fink does not look like this photo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.6.17 (talk) 19:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
- Talk pages containing nothing but 'test' are generally deleted. You may find that Wikipedia isn't a very good way of sending messages to people; try reading our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly G2 and A3. The speedy tag was for the deletion of the talk page, not the article; however, now this talk page has a discussion on it, it probably won't be deleted. --ais523 14:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- as i'm new here i don't see anything bad in 'test'. anyhow thanks for the hint, i'll read the criteria. learning by doing. cheers, Bkenner 14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- It's not that tests are particularly bad, as such; we just delete them after a few minutes because there's no point in leaving them around. Some good places for testing are Wikipedia:Sandbox and Special:Mypage/Sandbox. --ais523 14:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- ok, thanks for the v helpfull advice. getting into it slowly. Bkenner 14:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- as i'm new here i don't see anything bad in 'test'. anyhow thanks for the hint, i'll read the criteria. learning by doing. cheers, Bkenner 14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Ais523, since we're on the subject of advice for new editors, I see that under The Man's Book delete discussion the user roundhouse suggests that this page (Thomas Fink) is patently not neutral. I am a little surprised by this. I have spent more time deleting content from this page than adding it, and what remains seems pretty neutral. Are words like "bestselling" and "prominent" out of place? Or does the use of South Audley Street Set appear too frivolous? Thomas Fink
- I'm not sure about that. However, seeing as the subject is alive and the article has no sources, negative information wouldn't be allowed at the moment anyway (see Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons). If User:Roundhouse thinks it's not neutral then they can place {{NPOV}} at the top of the page and make their point here on the talk page. --ais523 10:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- The page seems to me to emphasise the books unduly. Each is linked twice for instance; the impending publication of the 2nd is stressed and the section will be out-of-date next week. (The other sections seem fine to me; frivolity most welcome.) Also TF has been editing the article himself ('strongly discouraged' in Wikipedia:Autobiography). So I would prefer a simple list of the 2 books with a brief description of each (put the ISBN numbers in - Wikipedia has some clever way of producing an automatic link which is then quite useful). The first can be linked to the Wiki page which has the details and the other to some external page, eg on TF's excellent site or the Times Online article. (This is intended as 'constructive criticism'.) roundhouse 15:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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I am concerned because Thomas describes himself as Anglo American and is actually only American 82.1.49.90 (talk) 08:44, 20 August 2022 (UTC)