User talk:Ashley2020

Hi Ashley, can i just point out a little thing about talk pages? It's that when you sign your entries, you always put your signature on a new line, which just takes up more space and breaks up the conversation a little. Also, when replying, could you please keep to the threading system, ie. don't interrupt a thread unless there is good reason to do so or unless the thread changes topic? (Like as in how I moved your last comment on the Talk:Manchester page.) And to use the : indents. Sorry if I'm sounding petty - it's just way easier to follow threads when everyone keeps to the stylistic norms. Welcome to Wikipedia by the way! Cormaggio 12:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Hi Ashley: At Talk:Birmingham you said "If an article is poor then it should be pointed out, If it upsets some delicate people then well, I'm sorry." You are right that it is part of our process to point out problems with articles. We do this by stating the changes that we think are needed to make improvements. Other editors may not know how you wish an article to be improved if you do not state the improvements that you seek. The explanation that you provided in your second post to that page is exactly the kind of thing that is needed. On another note: we try to assume good faith here so it is not appropriate to respond to Cormaggio's well-meant suggestion that you edit the related articles with the equivalent of "And the same to you!" Don't worry too much about making mistakes as you learn your way around our policies. &mdash;Theo (Talk) 10:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)