User talk:Austin smith

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The best that can be said about your first contributions is that they are all probably valid subjects but their presentation falls so far short of what Wikipedia expects that it is best to delete them and start again.

Hannibal Square is a crude copy-and-paste. If you are in touch with the creators of the source pages: a) is it current usage to put a capital B on blacks? and b) if we are displaying an image at 388 pixels wide, we do not use for the source a 1.4 M byte image which is 1944px wide especially when the server is slow - readers will lose interest and go away long before the image has loaded.

The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes and The Nazi Years: A Documentary History. If these are copyright violations, mark them db-author immediately and apologise for wasting my time. If they are your own work: They are are too long winded for Wikipedia articles. Importance of subject not established. And above all formatting!! Your tutor will be put off seeing one continuous slab of text and so are Wikipedia readers - have you never thought of using paragraphs or putting in section headings?

But don't mind mind me, carry on contributing. -- RHaworth 18:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)