User talk:Epilepsynse

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The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE)
Hi, I assume from your username that you are someone involved in publicity for NSE. I've noticed your creation and editing of The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE). I'm quite sure your intentions are good, but the content of this article does not currently meet Wikipedia's policy governing (specifically advertising).

When writing, try to consider what you would expect to find in an encyclopaedia article about the NSE rather than what you would like on the front page of a web site or magazine advert. The writing style should be much more "matter of fact" rather than reading like a brochure. Remember that the reader is quite capable of following the link to the "Official Site" and reading all the stuff on your web site - so there is no need to repeat it here. Unlike web pages, Wikipedia articles have internal links to other Wikipedia articles throughout the text - links to external sites are generally reserved for the External links section or when quoting sources of information.

I suggest you read What Wikipedia is not and compare the article with the one for Epilepsy Action and other charities in the Category:Health charities in the United Kingdom.

Another issue is with the name of the article. It should not include the "(NSE)" abbreviation/suffix (see Naming conventions). It should be The National Society for Epilepsy (which you can create simply by clicking on the text in red). You are welcome to add a link to this in the NSE disambiguation page.

If you want, I can help you with the article. I'll even write it for you - which may help give you a fresh Wikipedia-compliant base to build on. Let me know what you think.

Regards, Colin°Talk 16:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your email. For Wikipedia-related discussion, it is useful if you use the "User talk" page to ask questions and reply. The convention on Wikipedia is to reply on a person's own talk page - since they may not have your page in their "Watch List". The does lead to rather disjointed conversions, however. I've got this page in my watch-list so you can reply here. Sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You can also indent your response, if you want, by placing a colon at the start of each paragraph.

Once we've got the article name decided-on, then futher discussion about the article could continue on the article's own talk-page. That has the advantage of being clearly visible to other editors and readers, who may wish to contribute.

I'll have a go at creating the stub of an article later, and set up the redirects appropriately. We need to create redirect pages for each article title that someone might try to search for. This includes the case of the letters (the search facility is quite basic).

Regards, Colin°Talk 09:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello again. I've created National Society for Epilepsy. If you go to that page and click on "What links here" in the left hand column, you will see a list of other articles that refers to this one. Many of them are redirects that I have set up to ensure (a) that people searching for the article will find it no matter what variation they use and (b) if someone creates a wiki link to one of these variants, then it will still work.

Your original page hasn't been lost completely - all the history of page edits are kept. You can get to your last edit through this link. As you can see, the new article is a bit smaller. The external hyperlinks are reserved for the References I used and also the brief External links section.

There is room for expanding the article. I think the History section is a bit of a stub and could be the most interesting for readers of the encyclopedia. Perhaps there could be a Research section, if you can detail any particularly notable research that the NSE has conducted.

The key word for any extra stuff you add is notable. A reader can get great detail from your own web site. Listing all the services in great detail isn't (IMO) that notable. For example, my local NHS Trust provides lots of services, by lots of dedicated staff, to lots of people. They don't have a Wikipedia page. Perhaps you could add some figures to give the reader an idea of how it can claim to be "the largest medical charity in the field". In keeping with the principle of Verifiability, these numbers should come from either the references I've added already, or from other references that you can quote (e.g. a link to another page on your site).

I've done some work on the Ley Sander and John S. Duncan pages too.

Let me know if you want any help. Colin°Talk 08:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Nse2col(RGB) 150pixel width.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:Nse2col(RGB) 150pixel width.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

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Fair use rationale for Image:Nselogo.jpg
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