User talk:Charles D. Laughlin

Frank Hastings
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw the article you created, Frank Hastings, on the new pages feature. You should check out the guidelines and Manual of Style for fiction. The article seems to have a lot of room for expansion, but as it stands right now it doesn't bear much information that couldn't be included in the author or novel articles.

In addition, Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy means value judgements about arts and entertainment need to be pruned out of articles as POV. It's encyclopedic to say a novel is a best-seller, or critically acclaimed, if you can back that up with sources such as major critic reviews or sales charts, but no piece of fiction can be judged "the finest" in anything, unless it's a quote attributed to someone else.

Have fun editing Wikipedia, and leave a note on my talk page if you have a question. LeaHazel : talk : contribs 10:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:John Falter in his studio.jpg
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Cateogory:Anthropology of religion
Charles,

As a housekeeping matter, in order to stay within Wikipedia conventions I have moved the category you created "Anthropology of Religion" to "Anthropology of religion" (only the first word should be capitalized). I also created a sub-category "Anthropologists of religion" and re-tagged all entries that were about anthropologists as opposed to topics to this subcategory. I felt that I should inform you about these trivial matters since you created the category and have been tagging entries. All the best.PelleSmith 01:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Jack Smart at microphone.jpg
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Copyright problem with J. Scott Smart
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Image:RobinTunneyWeb.jpg
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Nomination of Biogenetic structuralism for deletion
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