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Hi there. I see you've added a link to the website for the Illinois Newspaper Project to 40 or so pages. Firstly, this is discouraged in general per the "External links" guidelines which states that external links "should be kept minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article", which these aren't. Secondly, as you appear to work for the company, this sort of editing is a conflict of interest and pretty much amounts to spam. I'm going to revert all of these now... Thanks Nikthestunned08:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Nikthestunned. I'm terribly embarrassed. The pages I linked to provide information on how to borrow microfilm of the newspapers through interlibrary loan. I thought that would be helpful to those interested. I apologize for causing you so much work. I'll cut that out.
Also, while, yes, I work for the INP, I tried to remain as neutral as possible and only provide relevant information. Should I just take down the page altogether? TracyNectoux (talk) 13:18, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tracy, that has to be one of the best responses I've received to such an incident and for that I thank you! For the most part, Wikipedia doesn't link (externally) to *anything* except things *directly* associated with the subject - this is to avoid the External links section ending up like a Google search result basically, which is just not required here.
The page itself is fine, barring the issues I flagged on it... You've stated enough to show the company's notability, it just needs some attention from an unaffiliated editor really. Unfortunately, it's somewhat on the long side, so this may take some time! You may want to strip it down to pretty much just the company history - take a look at some examples of "Good articles" in Journalism: The Register-Guard, Illustrated Daily News - they're basically in-depth company history, with achievements and (sometimes) failures as appropriate. I guess the page on Microfilm covers most of what you've included here...
I can help you out if you like, maybe give it a first pass and let you fix it up after, if I've made any mistakes? Depends on if you're interested to learn how to write Wikipedia articles in general, I suppose! Cheers, Nikthestunned14:28, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again. Considering the work I caused you, apologizing is the least I can do. I've been thinking about it, and, because we're in the final stages of this project, there are only two of us left (me and a preservation specialist). I don't know of anyone unaffiliated who'd be interested or willing to work on it. If you'd like to edit out anything unnecessary, I'd be fine with that. I can follow up after you're done. But if you don't have the time (or desire), I can give it a try. Your point about microfilm is a good one. Perhaps that table should be the first thing to go... TracyNectoux (talk) 14:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Meh, no worries! I've done as mentioned (having scanned through the article I pretty much knew what needed to be done)... What we need now is:
I added an "Infobox" template to the top of the article, can you fill this in with the relevant info?
Third party sources confirming the points made in the article - by third party I mean "completely unaffiliated with the INP" and "reliable" (see WP:RS) - Google News is your friend here! (Make sure you use the "Search tools" and then set "Any time" to "Archives")
The lede should only summarise other information in the article - I guess my removal has broken this and so this likely needs to be rewritten with some stuff possibly being added to the body of the article also (if that makes sense!)
The "history" of the company doesn't need to be quite so granular and doesn't really need so many headers! Multiple paragraphs are fine.
Just a quick note to say: Yep, exactly like that - nicely done! References should be done with the {{cite web}} template, or similar, however. If this looks too confusing / annoying for you though, just leave them "bare" (i.e., just the URL) and I'll run a tool over them to auto-fill them. This tool, unfortunately, doesn't work when the references have other information in them though. Cheers and keep up the good work! Nikthestunned14:19, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Good morning! Okay, thank you for the encouragement. That was good to read while I was working on the page.
I trimmed up the history section. If you think it still needs to be more streamlined, just say the word. I also removed specific region numbers since, without the regional map, they don't make sense.
I did try to code the references like you asked, but unfortunately, they didn't come out correctly. I can keep trying, of course, but I left only the bare urls in case you have a quick and easy way to format them?
It's afternoon for me Not to worry, I've no problem helping out someone who is trying to do good and willing to learn *how* also!
History section is looking much neater, nicely done. I've fixed up the references; don't worry about getting them right initially, it's a bit of a fiddle!
Any chance you can fill in the infobox at the top? I guess you'll know most of this information off-hand... E.g., the location and date of foundation; the locations / assests / key people etc...
Looking good - I filled in the references as mentioned... The only major issue now is that the lead paragraph doesn't "summarise the information included in the article" - it mentions things that aren't mentioned anywhere else which shouldn't be the case. I added some {{fact}} tags to the article where references are needed also, feel free to replace these if you can find some reliable sources for these statements! . Nikthestunned10:09, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Good afternoon! Okay, I added some brief info., which I hope is what you're looking for. I mentioned the USNP and Library of Congress in the first timeline paragraph to further explain their involvement. But if this isn't what's needed, I might just remove the first paragraph altogether and tweak the second. Would that be preferable?
Hi Tracy. I reverted your re-addition of the list of newspapers. This is currently being discussed on the talk page, if you wanted to join in! Cheers, Nikthestunned15:29, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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