User talk:Bradley Rautenbach

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Hello, Bradley Rautenbach, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Zunaid 22:08, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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Wits Solar Car
First off, let me apologise for not taking the time to post a note to you after editing the article. That would have been the right and courteous thing to do, however I've been on Wikipedia so long I tend to think that everyone else already "knows the system". Have a read through the page history and read the comments left when I edited the page (by the way, it is good practice to always leave comments summarising your edits). I have removed the aerodynamic formula and the section about solar racing entrants as there are other articles that deal with that information, and they don't really add any info about the WSC itself.

Moreover, the WSC article as it stands is too "inward looking", reflecting (in some cases verbatim copy-pasting) the official website blurb instead of explaining why this car is important from external 3rd party sources. I've edited it to keep in all the salient facts. Please realise that I'm trying to help. What you may not know is that the article was already deleted once on 19 September by a different user for having "No explanation of (its) significance". Wikipedia has requirements for article inclusion that basically boil down to "explain why independent sources consider this subject to be significant" rather than "demonstrate that this subject exists". At the moment the article only demonstrates that the WSC exists, and doesn't explain its significance via 3rd party reliable sources independent of the subject. For example this article in Engineering News is a 3rd party source and may contain useful info you could add to the article. To be honest though, there does not seem to be much independent information on the WSC based on a Google search. It may be better to create a master article on the solar challenge (which does appear to have more independent coverage) and include information on the WSC and other vehicles as sections. That way we could give the subject a more well-rounded and complete treatment, in its proper context for the reader, than to have a (necessarily short) article based on very little independent information.

Don't let my lack of consideration discourage you from editing. If you have any more questions feel free to reply here or on my talk page and let's take it further. Regards Zunaid 23:38, 20 September 2013 (UTC)