User talk:DougMorJa

MacAdam/Cage
Thank you for your edit to the above article. Generally we try to seamlessly integrate information into the article that is written in our own words rather than copy/paste material from a website. If you would like to add this information to the article, perhaps you could create a section on "Submissions" and write up the information you found in paragraphs? Thanks. Awadewit (talk) 02:35, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

It's a direct quotation from a controlling document at McAdams/Cage. Paraphrasing it would be pointless and possibly misleading - like the prior text, which suggested that MacAdams/Cage was accepting all submissions for reading.
 * You are free to quote it, but we don't need to quote it in full - we can extract parts of it. However, we also need to try to integrate it into the text. The other statement about MacAdam/Cage reading all submissions is sourced to a third-party source. On Wikipedia, we try to use what we call reliable sources to construct articles. Generally, those are third-party, fact-checked sources. That is where that statement came from. Their policy may have changed since that was reported, however. We could say "As of August 2009, MacAdam/Cage reports on their website that..." or somesuch formulation. (Note: Signing posts such as the above with four tildas ~ will make your username appear and then others will know who posted the statement.) Awadewit (talk) 02:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Check my last change. Fill the bill?
 * Generally, we try to retain information, so I have restored the old information, with the caveat "As of 2004" and "as reported in The Observer" and then segued into the sentence you provided. Also, I added a citation to the website at the end of the sentence you added. We at Wikipedia think citations are very important. With a citation, our readers can verify the information if they don't trust the encyclopedia "anyone can edit". :) Oh, and welcome to Wikipedia! This is a great place. Please drop me a note if you ever want any help around the site. Just go to User talk:Awadewit. Awadewit (talk) 03:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)