Lorenzen6

Cary Grant

Please provide citations for the additions that you made to Cary Grant or they will have to come out. Remember, no original research or publication on Wikipedia. Thanks.

Welcome! (Regarding Cary Grant)

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WikiDon 03:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

How to Cite Sources in an article

Lorenzen,

Please read:

Wikipedia:Citing sources and also Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style

See also: Wikipedia:Citing sources, Wikipedia:ISBN, and Wikipedia talk:Footnotes/Mixed citations and footnotes

You need to work on how you add information to Wikipedia.

I think you are doing great, but you have to figure out what an encyclopedia is, and what it is not.

• 1) Don't "own" these articles. Contribute and don't get attached to them. You'll be happier.
• 2) If you want to contribute more editorial prose style, this is NOT the place.
• 3) In an encyclopedia we do not say things like:

The Nile is a lovely river in Africa.

This is editorial prose.

We say:

The Nile is a river in Africa.

While "lovely" maybe 100% accurate, is it really encyclopedic? You may write information that is 100% accurate, and is good material, but does not belong here, in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias, are BLACK and WHITE (for the most part). It is not Live Planet, or something close to that.

A lot of people mis-understand what is needed here, including myself. I have to continuely check myself from editorializing and interjecting my own thoughts into my contributions, and still things seem to slip through. But, I do better if I give up "ownership" of the article, I don't take it to heart, don't take it personally. If I can stay back and remain objective, I seem to do a lot better at keeping "waffle words" out.

SEE: Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (This is a good one!)

I know that I am a better encyclopedia editor now, than I was when I first started here, in May of 2004. But I know that I can still improve even more than what I have done so far. The amount of information that I DON'T know keeps growing faster than the list of what I DO know.

Thanks, keep up the good work, improve, but keep it up.

WikiDon 17:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: Slow slicing

Lorenzon,

How can cutting off four limbs be called "slow slicing"? Slow slicing is many, many, small cuts, slices, that are a form of torture that can be done over hours and hours. If you cut off a limb, it won't be long. The cutting off of a limb is NOT slow slicing.

I am removing it from the article.

Additionally, you need to learn how to format information contributed. How to use Wikilinki's, proper English, grammar, and punctuation.

In the slow slicing article, you could just look at the other additions to the "Uses in fiction" section and mimic those. Your contribution sticks out because it looks different, is differently formatted.

You need to add Wikilinks to James Clavell and Tai-Pan, like I just did here, and italicize movie and novel titles.

From looking at your edits you need to slow down, step back, and review items like: Wikipedia:Manual of Style, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles), Wikipedia:How to edit a page, Wikipedia:Footnotes, etc.

WikiDon 17:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: Communication with other Wikipedians

Hola!

You need to learn how to navigate around the sea before you head out into the ocean.

Please use HEADER'S and SIGN your communications.

Please See:

Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines

Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)

Thanks....WikiDon 02:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Citations in biographies of living persons

Hi Lorenzen6, just a note: In WP:Biographies of living persons we have a high standard for sourcing statements. Personally, I aim for every statement in every article to be sourced, and especially so in a BLP. I've found a source that backs up what you added to Gary Kubiak about his son Klint's years playing for CSU and inserted it (see the diff). Let me know if you have any questions. – Anon423 (talk) 01:12, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

thanks for your professional editing Lorenzen6 (talk) 19:04, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Alexandra Tydings edit

I have reverted your addition of an unsourced date of birth to Alexandra Tydings. In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Wikipedia:Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published, non-primary source. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:35, 30 January 2023 (UTC)