Talk:Stephen Price (theatre manager)

Reverted indiscriminate content changes
Please take greater care with major edits (including broken references, introduction of grammatical errors and trivia, substitution of uncropped image for cropped image). Lwarrenwiki (talk) 23:01, 13 June 2018 (UTC)


 * There is merit in many of your additions. However, I see from your editing history that you're fairly new to Wikipedia, and that this is the first article to which you've tried to make substantial edits. Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm going to try to help you get used to the way major revisions are done here: by collaboration and consensus. It's unfortunate in some ways, and fortunate in other ways, that both of us began creating the article independently, in draft form. You started your draft 12 days ago. I started mine just about a month earlier than you, and it became the article.  I'm going to undo your last edits, but don't be alarmed. Your content will get into this article, and I'll help make that happen. However, the process has to slow down. You can't just substitute your content for another editor's established content, without offering a good reason for the change (more than personal style preferences), and backing it up with reference to Wikipedia policies. I intend to reintegrate your content, and I'm going to take it one paragraph or subsection at a time. I'm going to explain what I'm doing as I go. If you have objections, please respond by talking about them here. This is intended to be helpful for you, as a new editor, but it's more than that. If we do this right, it's going to be a better article than either of us would have written separately. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 01:51, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Integration of content
I will resume integrating your content tomorrow. Note the edit comments:
 * Edit #1 – Integrated new content into "Early life and career" section. Please read MOS:SECTIONS; section headings are brief & in sentence case. The duel section will be integrated next edit.
 * Edit #2 – Information on the Eacker duels now is scattered among 3 articles, needs to be in one place. That's why your expanded details belong at George Eacker; only summaries should be here and at Philip Hamilton. Most of your content focuses on Eacker. Caution, the quotes read like historical fiction, not encyclopedic.
 * To add to the above:
 * I saw nothing in the sources to support your statement that Price graduated with honors. Where did you get that from?
 * I noticed that a great deal of your content in the first section was paraphrased or copied from a single source (Hewitt). Please be careful with that. (One very noticeable copied phrase was "must have read law".)

I've rewritten or attributed what I could, or cited other sources when appropriate. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 05:33, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Source (?)
I thank you very much for wanting to help me learn and whatnot. I’m not too good with words, so I won’t write too much, but my source would be “Catalogue of Columbia College in the City of New York: embracing the names of its trustees, officers, and graduates, together with a list of all academical honours conferred by the institution from A.D. 1758 to A.D. 1826, inclusive.” Under academical honors, Price’s name is mentioned. Derpyhowell (talk) 19:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)


 * By "academical honours", they just mean the degree itself. All the 1799 graduates are listed under that section. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 20:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)