User talk:Carbon-based cyborg

August 2015
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Edits to Simon Penny Article
Hello and thanks for your recent edits to Simon Penny.

I noticed many of your edits either lack references or point back to the presumably self-published simonpenny.org. A few things to keep in mind are
 * References from self-published sites are less desirable than references from third parties (Conference proceedings, journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs etc). See Verifiability.
 * The article's subject is of course notable for his contribution to electronic art. However the article is starting to sound like a promotional page. Wikipedia is not a promotional resource... see Neutral point of view

Since you have added a significant amount of specific biographical information to the article, hopefully you will also have easy access to third-party references for that info and will include them in your future edits.

New Media Theorist (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your very helpful comments and edits (I hope I'm using the talk page right, BTW). I went back and removed or modified some sentences that might have been wrongly formulated, in order to stick to the neutral POV, and provided external sources whenever I could, and will continue to do so as needed. Please do let me know if you have more comments.
 * Carbon-based cyborg (talk) 21:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * yes it is looking better with each edit. Still a bit promotional, but better. I am wondering if there should be a section for his essays? they are quite important in the history of writing on electronic media practice. New Media Theorist (talk) 21:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Did some more work on it and removed more promotional-like text. Also eliminated all references to his personal page.
 * Yes, the section on the essays might be useful. Should it be under the "Academic production" section? Maybe with another name? Let's see if I can put this together in the following days. Feel free to jump in :-) Carbon-based cyborg (talk) 22:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)