User talk:FCivish

Hi. Minor apology; I made a few removals/taggings of some unsourced material you added recently to the Western honey bee article. I stand by the edits themselves (including the one that I restored after deleting it), though I was a little confused when I wrote the note I made accompanying one of the edits (about "mellifera-specific" editing). Please ignore that comment, as I was confusing your edits on this article with your comment in the honey bee talk page - I did not realize, at first, that it was actually the mellifera article you were editing. I realized my mistake very soon thereafter, but too late to change the comment. The comment about "domesticated bees" was typed in haste - I had meant to specify "U.S." in that phrase. That being said, the point remains that there are lots and lots of things beekeepers say about bees that don't have scientific study to back them up, and it really isn't appropriate to include such things here; if you're concerned that this is just my personal opinion about how to edit, I'll refer you to official WP guidelines on "reliable sources" and "no original research". Inclusion of anecdotes violates both of these editorial policies. By all means, if you HAVE citations for things like the lifespan of german bees, then that's great, and it'd be an excellent addition to the article - but if this is only hearsay, and you have no documentation to support it, please consider removing it. Thanks, Dyanega 22:18, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yellowstone Park Bison Herd

FCivish-I see where you've started contributing after a fairly long wikibreak. I hope you stick around. Your new article Yellowstone Park Bison Herd is a good start-good job. As you can see I've made a few changes to bring the article more inline with the MOS, but there's still much to do.

Excessive wikilinking of the same article mulitiple times is not necessary, especially in the same paragraph or section.
Empty categories (and unlikely categories) were removed.
Added project templates to talk page
Unless you intend to have new articles on the other Bison herds ready soon, the red wikilinks to them should be removed.
On your references--there's no doubt the information in the article is factual and verifiable, but the early sections really should have some inline references. The references you do use are WP:Bare URLs and should be converted to complete citations. Since most are web cites, use: Template:cite web for them. I did not tag them as bare URLs in the hope that you will fix them and learn the templates in the process.
Additionally, the history section is a bit too scant on the history of the herd in Yellowstone, especially the rebuilding of the herd that took place in the 1920-30s.
You probably added a tad bit too much Bison content to the Yellowstone article, which is really WP:SS. A couple of lines in that article with the link to the herd article should be sufficient.

If there is anything I can do to help, let me know. Sincerely --Mike Cline (talk) 15:14, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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