Talk:Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives

Example farm
, at last two editors agree that the list of examples under "Oral histories" is not suitable for the article. From my point of view it is entirely extraneous; this level of detail does not belong on Wikipedia, and interested readers can and should go to the archive page for this information. It is not Wikipedia's function to provide an index for individual items in an external archive. But in any case, 20+ examples are excessive, and the Example farm tag makes that clear. Your replacement of the tag with Prose is at best useless - there is no way this material could be turned into a prose section - and at worst obfuscatory and misleading: this is equivalent to writing an unsourced paragraph and then adding "citation needed" yourself. If it is clear to you yourself that the material is in unusitable form, then don't insert it!

Please don't replace the tag again before this has been discussed. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:07, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks ., I'll add a few more comments:
 * Srbtx appears to be a student editor, so I'm willing to have patience and assume good faith. I imagine Elmidae agrees.
 * Being a student editor does not mean one is excused from regular policy, including edit warring. I'd suggest reading WP:3RR and WP:BRD for more on edit war policies.
 * Now, this article does have some WP:NPOV issues. As a student at Oregon State working on an article about a OSU-connected archive, it's important that all content added is done so in a way that does not overly promote the subject, or make claims that are not cited from reliable sources. A lot of what's currently in the article is not exactly encyclopedic, the Oral histories section especially.
 * If you have questions or would like help with the article, including determining what is appropriate for inclusion, feel free to respond here. –  Broccoli  &#38; Coffee (Oh hai) 23:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Dear and ,

I apologize for making such a dire mistake. I have spent a lot of time working on this project and did not realize the warring policies, so thank you Broccoli and Coffee for showing me where I can learn more. Moving forward, I will follow these guidelines and I am currently working on inserting and citing more sources for this article to aid in reputability. Please let me know how it looks moving forward.

Thank you, Srbtx (talk) 15:58, 9 August 2019 (UTC)Srbtx