User talk:David Celani

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Hello, David Celani, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place " " on this page and someone will drop by to help. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) Join WER 16:39, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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Ronald Fairbairn
I'm so glad someone with real expertise is tackling this article with such commitment. Only recently did I learn about Fairbairn, and I was glad to see such breadth and depth devoted to him appearing before my eyes. I'm thankful to be learning a lot as I read each iteration of the article; perhaps I'll have the opportunity to do more reading on Fairbairn so I can help a tad with content, at least so that, when making a style change, I can feel more confident that I've preserved accuracy.

If you work on this article until you are generally satisfied with its content, I don't see why it wouldn't become a Featured Article (FA). I hope to help you with editing and style along the road. In any case, to reach FA, just keep in mind that Wikipedia has strictures in length, tone, organization, etc. that will need to be followed. As the article progresses, other Wikipedia editors will have to evaluate it to determine whether it reaches quality benchmarks specific to grades of article (e.g., C, B, and A). They'll offer suggestions, perhaps make their own edits, etc. Although it is generally frowned upon to be brutal in critiques, some editors will still go that route. To aid yourself on your way to FA, you may decide to nominate the article to be, say, B-class. The comments you get will almost certainly save you work to get to FA, when evaluation will be its most exacting.

Hail to you, good sir! Scrawlspacer (talk) 12:54, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Careful
Be aware of your own opinions. Don't say that things are "clearly" something, or that an essay is "powerful".

Also I wouldn't be surprised if the your addition to the article gets chainsawed down to less than a third its length. DS (talk) 19:21, 3 June 2020 (UTC)