User talk:ArrowMcD

April 2016
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Writing short bios
Hi,

I saw your work on David Welker and wanted to offer some advice for writing short bios of artists on wikipedia. This is all unsolicited but I think it's helpful: I hope these help or at least don't seem annoying to you. I'll try and check back here to see if you have questions but if I am not responding (I am not active these days) you can leave a message on my talk page and I'll see it in a day or so. Protonk (talk) 16:50, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Take a look at the external links you have on the page. Right now there are about 20. Usually for short biographies we tend to see less than 5, otherwise an editor who comes across the page might see the large number of links and think something fishy is going on. Many of these links can be converted into references and used in the body text. So for example you have an awards and shows section. These could be converted to references and used to support claims in the text "David did so and so show [reference]" etc. It doesn't need to be anything weighty but it is much more helpful to other editors to format references when we can. Similarly we can use the show links (presumably) to support claims like "Welker has also displayed at Spoke Art San Francisco with sold out shows in 2017 and 2018 as well as Art Basel from 2016-2018."
 * 2) Be mindful of prose like "producing some memorable campaigns". While it may be true, Wikipedia articles should try to keep a neutral tone, especially when working with living people. This is a minor point, since "memorable" is a fairly small modifier to "campaign"; we're not exactly asserting david is a world striding colossus. However, it is valuable to be really picky about modifying words and phrases.
 * 3) try and find, if you can, reliable sources which cover the subject. Those would be books, newspaper articles, and the like which aren't produced by people who work for or with David. So a gallery biographical sketch is useful to us as information but we would much rather see something written by someone who doesn't have a professional interest in bigging him up.
 * As an example for #1, see this diff. Ideally we would like to convert almost all the external links to inline references like that. Protonk (talk) 17:40, 29 December 2020 (UTC)