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Hi. I thought your recent edit to the ETO article was very useful in a number of ways, but I was concerned that it's also moved it more towards sounding a bit like like a press release. As it's the only article you've edited I'm tempted to assume that you haven't edited Wikipedia before, and I'm also tempted to assume that you're editing from a pro-ETO viewpoint which I feel comes out a bit in words like "vibrant" and "groundbreaking". I am afraid that these will have a red-rag-to-bull effect on some editors here and I wonder if you might want to look at it again with a view to seeing if you can get it sounding a bit more neutral. I've placed a tag on the article which summarizes this and might (I hope!) attract some helpful editing help. Wikipedia runs on a "Neutral Point of View" (NPOV) policy which means that people strive to get articles written from - well, an NPOV really. So you might find that it's better for you to tone it down a bit before someone else does, perhaps less subtly than you would! I hasten to add that I'm offering this view only because I hope it helps you and the article. I actually think ETO is a jolly good company (indeed I was a founder member of the Opera 80 orchestra) but that's not the point - the point is to try to offer an encyclopaedic view in the article, which means neutrality and verifiability, and that's what the article is currently a little lacking. You might find that some of the links in the welcome blurb above are useful, as is the Neutral Point of View thing I mentioned before. Hope this helps, and happy editing. Thanks and best wishes, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 07:42, 7 January 2009 (UTC)