User:Imaginarydana

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! - Jmabel | Talk 21:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hype vs. Encyclopedic
Welcome, hope you stick around. I appreciate your efforts to write on Seattle bands, etc., but please do try to be careful not to write "like a promoter" when you are writing for an encyclopedia. You might take a look at the article I wrote on The Squirrels to get an idea of how to do this more acceptably. Instead of praising the band in the narrative voice of the article, I quote Peter Blecha and Jim DeRogatis; to talk about their approach to arrangement, I quote lead singer Rob Morgan himself; rather than just claim that they are highly respected, I cite evidence of them being respected by John Peel.

A marginally acceptable way to get around this is to quote what you, yourself, have published elsewhere (more so if it was published somewhere that would generally be considered a reliable sources, but beware of quoting and citing your own site too much, or it will probably be seen by some as an effort at linkspamming. Yes, it gets a bit tricky). I've sometimes ended up a bit convoluted on this myself, as at Maradona (scam) where I cite http://www.expatfocus.com/avoiding-common-traveller-scams as a reference; expatfocus cites my own personal website, which (as a personal website) Wikipedia would generally not consider to meet the standards for a reliable source!

I hope that's helpful, please fell free to ask on my talk page if you have questions. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)