User talk:Bcarney3483

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Hello, Bcarney3483, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Technical Diving International. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! RexxS (talk) 03:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
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Not an advertising brochure
Hi Bcarney2483, Your recent edits to SDI made it look like an advertising brochure. This is against the Manual of Style. An article on a diver certification agency should be about the agency, and what training it provides, and what makes it different from other agencies, not the general principles of diver training. Also Manual of style strongly deprecates 2nd person style, ie. words like 'you', 'your' etc, except in useful quotes. I will try to salvage useful information, but may not be completely successful. Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:35, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, I agree with Peter that your edits to Scuba Diving International didn't really fit in with the style we are striving for in an encyclopedia. To be as helpful as I can, I would recommend that you have a look at our advice on finding reliable sources at WP:RS. There's a key sentence there:
 * Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.
 * With the best will in the world, I can't see how http://diving.newarchaeology.com/dive-computer.php or http://www.diveandgo.com/en/theme/beginner-courses meet our requirements for having "a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". Indeed 'Diveandgo' makes this interesting statement:
 * "If this is being performed in the open waters it should be conducted under the professional guidance of PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) or SSI (Scuba Schools International) or NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors) or WOSD (World Organisation of Scuba Diving)"
 * It would seem that they don't believe anyone should be trained by SDI, marking it a rather odd source to use in the SDI article.
 * It's not easy finding good quality sources to use in scuba diving articles, but I don't want to discourage you. For individual training agencies, their own websites are deemed a reliable source for what they do. There is also an excellent resource at the Rubicon Research Repository for more general and for medical areas of diving, and I would always recommend asking User:Gene Hobbs for pointers if you're stuck finding good sources for a particular issue. Hope that helps, --RexxS (talk) 13:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)