User talk:Kgrange

Urgent Feedback Help!

I'm looking for someone to give feedback to my page Cellular Manufacturing

Please help!

Meganlaw15 06:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome and comments

Best you can do is just keep plugging away. You may make mistakes, but someone else will come in and fix them--or chew on you-- or something. Two things help a lot:

1) Surf wikilinks and learn where all the other horse articles are hiding, there are a TON, many not well linked, (many not well-written, but that's another problem), some with very illogical titles. The categories at the bottom of articles are another good place to look to find more related articles...

2) Be really careful to read the whole article before editing one you haven't worked on. Everyone has their pet peeve, mine is people who put in material that is already discussed elsewhere in the article, or, worse yet, if there is a link to a "main article" starts discussing something we just moved over from a general article to a more detailed article...

The help sections are extensive and ultimately tell you everything you need to know, though sometimes figuring them out is a pain, and there's always a few really anal-retentive people who will be sure to gripe at you for relatively minor "sins."

Be sure to write as well as possible. "Compelling prose" is one thing we really need to try for. Also try to get into the habit of noting your sources, at least in an external links section, and preferably as footnotes.

If you are curious about things that wikipedians like to see, check out Horses in warfare, I was the lead editor that took a crappy weak article and made it into one that was granted "Good Article" status. I also did the same for Arabian horse. My current project is Equine nutrition, which I had a little hiccup with because I put in too much source material at first without proper footnoting, but it's better now...I want to tweak it a bit more, but will probably be putting it up for Good Article status soon.

If you want to do anything drastic, ask on the talk page first, and if no one whines in a couple of days, then try it in the article. Over time, you begin to get a sense of which articles have vigilant editors and which ones no one cares about.

Anyway, have fun, and good luck! Montanabw 00:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]