Talk:David Fleming (writer)

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Politics and Government

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).

University of Oxford

	University of Oxford portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject University of Oxford, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the University of Oxford on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.University of OxfordWikipedia:WikiProject University of OxfordTemplate:WikiProject University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Politics of the United Kingdom

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Politics of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomPolitics of the United Kingdom

??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

More information:
/
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Inclusion of quotes

On May 13, 2013 Wikipedian Bobrayner deleted the "Quotes" section of this page with the comment "Do we really need a giant quotefarm?"

I have reviewed Wikipedia editorial guidelines, which clearly support this: "Do not insert any number of quotations in a stand-alone quote section."

However, I suspect these quotes are useful to readers (I myself came to this page specifically to draw on those quotes), as Fleming was a writer and speaker, and reviewers of his work have commented that his style is unusual, humourous and hard to characterise. Hence some examples are helpful.

Accordingly, I have created a page for David Fleming on Wikiquote and included the deleted quotes there. I have also added an interwikimedia link box to the external links section, pointing at this new Wikiquote page. Since the work of collecting and referencing these quotes had already been done, it seemed a real shame to lose it all.

Hopefully this has improved the resources available on David Fleming.

PS - As a novice Wikipedian, this is my first time using the talk page functionality, so please forgive (and educate!) me if I am doing it wrong. Cheers. Shaunus4 (talk) 20:51, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That looks like a good solution. Nice work; thanks! bobrayner (talk) 21:06, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The link to WikiQuote doesn’t appear to work, it directs page to this page Ambitus (talk) 12:31, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake - the WikiQuote page just looks very similar - same photograph, for example Ambitus (talk) 12:34, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on David Fleming (writer). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:54, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]