User talk:Clyles

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Hello Clyles, I made you a sandbox to play in. Your user page is coming along nicely and I'll add it to the completed assignments page. Well done! Dr Aaij (talk) 20:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Hi Clyles, and welcome to Wikipedia. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please feel free to ask. I wanted to let you know that I recently undid an edit you made. Wikipedia is an international site, and as such as editors that are familiar with US, British, Canadian, Australian, and other flavors of English. To promote neutrality, it's agreed that we should retain the original language flavor of the article. Because this article was initially in British English, it should be kept that way. No worries, though, and thanks for your contributions! I look forward to seeing more from you soon. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. Regards, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 14:26, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Further to Shiriks message, I would like to add one thing - the only exception to keeping it in the original language flavour is if the subject is clearly one nationality - for example, articles about British subjects generally use British English, those about Australian subjects would generally use Australian English, those about American subjects would generally use American English. If, as a British reader, I came across an article about a British person, I would find it odd that it was written in American English! In the article in question, as the subject covers mine clearance agencies in different countries, then the original language flavour is used, as Shirik mentions above. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 15:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Abductive (reasoning) 08:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

Clyles, keep your eyes on the prize: the bridge. Too much information on the guy the bridge is named for isn't relevant, and you should also not have too much on Bloody Sunday--that has its own article (and look at the little thingy I'm about to paste in there). What you can add is that the bridge is still the site of annual remembrances, for instance, and that is one of the things you can look for.

For sources, you should look through the newspaper archives (using Google News), which should give you enough for a paragraph or two. I'll look as well. Good luck. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:44, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Check this out, for instance, and this. Plenty of stuff. Get this on the front page! But make SURE you write it in a neutral tone--see, for good examples, Selma to Montgomery marches or Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama). Dr Aaij (talk) 02:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry, but I can't let you claim the bridge article for Exercise 2: you haven't made any edits to the actual article. Find something else, add a sentence, and let's get that over with quickly. Dr Aaij (talk) 04:23, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've made some tweaks to the Pettus article. In general, you need to work on the objectivity of your language--see, for instance, Wikipedia:Npov#Impartial_tone--since parts of the article sound like an essay. See Wikipedia:Writing better articles. Also, the events of 1965 need to be expanded on, since that's the prime reason the bridge has any importance at all, and you can do that with magazine articles, books, and newspaper articles. For instance, see this search. Dr Aaij (talk) 13:53, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]