User talk:Eli Todd

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AfD nomination of Funky Beach Farmington
I have nominated Funky Beach Farmington, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Funky Beach Farmington. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. -- omtay 38  15:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Took out refs (seemed to be formatted badly). Looks OK now but needs to be re-ref'd as it were. τßōиЄ 2001 (ǂ ) 21:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, what are you having problems with? Is it the refs, or is it something else? --Bongwarrior (talk) 21:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Dr. Eli Todd
The article looks really good now. Tags should be removed. -- Boreas Talk 19:10, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've asked around, and apparently Famous Americans is blacklisted because it was being spammed as an external link; additionally, it uses Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography as a main source, and Appleton's is regarded as a highly spurious reference. (Relevant discussions include this one, which links to other relevant ones chats). If you want to use that paragraph, you'll need a stronger reference than that. &spades;P M C&spades; 23:28, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The source you gave me looks reliable, but doesn't mention a thing about the sister's suicide (unless I've missed it, which I may well have). So, by all means use it for the article (which looks lovely of late), but you need another source if you're going to use the bit about the sister. (Also, have nominated the article for GA status. It looks good to me, so we'll see what the community thinks). &spades;P M C&spades; 22:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Eli Todd
Hi Eli, I thought I'd explain the changes I made to the above article, although I did use the edit summary to fully explain them, as you're new I thought I'd drop a note to let you know why. The first thing I did was to make the book that was cited more than once, easier on the reader, by simply citing it once, using the citebook template, and then using the page numbers. The second change I did was to remove the See also section (which should go above the references, see the manual of style for more info on ordering sections if you wish), because all the links in See also were already wiki-linked in the article. See also sections are for articles that aren't already linked via wiki-linking words, but are directly relevant to the topic. Finally, I removed the links to Amazon.com, because while I understand you used them to illustrate The Institute of Living, Amazon.com is a sales site, and is not an appropriate external link. Also, there is an article on the Institute of Living, so having a link to a book isn't really necessary. :) I hope this helps you understand my changes. Cheers! Ariel  ♥  Gold  22:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)