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Your submission at Articles for creation edit

 
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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages! edit

 
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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by NtheP (talk) 21:02, 19 September 2012 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).Reply

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Esther edit

Hello there. I do have to say that the reason you gave when undoing the edit did not make sense to me. In addition, Wikipedia does not need extremely long plot detail adding. Wikipedia is not a fansite used to store all the going on of a soap character's fictional life. We keep plot updates concise.Rain the 1 18:14, 28 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hell again. Congratulations on maintaining such an interesting job. However, that does not put you in a better position to edit Esther Bloom. You actually made the article worse rather than better. I am more than happy to start a discussion on the talk page; but I am fairly confident that other editors will not endorse your large plot updates [as already seems to be the case]. Per essay suggestions in WP:PLOTSUM and WP:PLOTSUMMARIZE [which are endorsed by the community] .. keep it concise. A consensus formed via editors of WP:SOAPS - Other participants in wikiprojects under the scope of ficitional characters often say the same thing. I disagree with everything you said. Fansites go into too much detail. If the reader wants more plot details, I would suggest they visit a fansite. This is not an FA article in question - so why bring that up? And let me tell you, if you think that a FAR looks for excessively long plot summarries when reviewing FACs ... think again.Rain the 1 18:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
You need to familiarise yourself with how things really work on here. Plenty of discussion has gone into citing sources - there is a standard - which I follow. I will not go against those because you do not agree. Personification is encouraged of the reporter is actually encouraged. Take it up with the rule, not the follower of the rule. No one is ignoring youur profession, I congratualed you on it - but it still does not give you a better handle on the ways of Wikipedia.Rain the 1 18:57, 29 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Sue Perkins edit

While some of your changes may have been improvements, a significant number of them added non-neutral language--things like "continues to have a long-standing", "notable appearances", "following the success", etc. Additionally, some of the changes introduced language that is too casual/flowery for an encyclopedia aricle, like "alongside friend and creative partner" and "whilst". If you're willing to go back in and fix those problems, I won't revert you, but with those included, they make the article significantly worse, in that they directly violate WP:NPOV. So, are you willing to fix those problems? Qwyrxian (talk) 14:13, 19 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

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