User talk:Davidmgregory

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Davidmgregory, good luck, and have fun. --Hoary (talk) 02:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lionel Delevingne

Hi. I see that you recently created an article for a photographer named Lionel Delevingne. Some of it might be from memory, but surely the quotations cannot be. Where are they from? Please specify this, as well as other factual assertions, via footnotes. Here's the formula:

Here's an assertion.<ref>And here's a footnote identifying the source.</ref>

At or near the foot of the article, you add:

==Notes==

And the footnotes all show up there.

I'm particularly puzzled by your assertion that his works are

presently being requested by the University of Massachusetts’ Dubois ‘ Special Collections department.

How do you know this? -- Hoary (talk) 02:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have now added a link to this department. Unsurprisingly, the link does not mention that the department is requesting anything. How do you know what the department is requesting? -- Hoary (talk) 00:03, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have hard copies of all of this. I am a big fan of this photographer and have done an insane amount of research on him....If one can put 2 and 2 together, one may surmise that Delevingne has lived and worked in the area of of the Duboise collection's focus and also geographically....also, a quote from the director of the Duboise collection is at the bottome of the page regarding Delevingne's work. Shoud i include the phone numbers of the quoted?.....I thank you kindly for your suggestions and guidance.

I take it that it might not be so surprising if this U Mass collection were to buy some of Delevingne's works. That is very different from saying that the collection is going to buy them. If you cannot present authoritative evidence that it's going to buy them, the claim must go.

The article presents a quotation attributed to "Robert S. Cox, Head, Dubois/Special Collections." However, there's no mention of where this appeared and so it too should be either sourced or removed.

Here and here are examples of how to show inclusion within permanent collections.

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability (and Wikipedia:No original research) and edit the article accordingly. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 15:02, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the Duboise collection offered to buy his work but the photographer declined the offer Please, I don't make this stuff up. I'll take a look at it in the near future. i thank you kindly for your guidance. Please don't delete anything without letting me know..... As far as editing and formatting..i am completely out of my element here and obviously I need your help ...i'd be much appreciative if you could straighten it up It has taken me several hours already...and i'm sure it would only take you a few moments....please. thank you

It's not the formatting that's the main problem, it's the provision of evidence for the claims that are made. And I've shown you how to add source notes.

I intend to delete all the unsourced assertions within a matter of days. This will not mean that your work has been flushed away: it will still be retrievable from the "history" of the article. You can then move it to a "sandbox" of your own, or I can move it there for you; and you can, if you wish, add sourcing to it over a matter of weeks and then move it back. -- Hoary (talk) 02:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]