User talk:Etnier

Given your username, you may have a conflict of interest in writing about Stephen M. Etnier. If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 15:48, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Draft
I saw the draft from the link on your userpage and it looks reasonably neutral to me. Things to avoid are "greatest artist ever" unless you can quote a reliable source that calls him that (or anything else - see WP:PEACOCK and WP:NPOV.

It would also help if you used inline citations. This is fairly easy to do - basically you just add a ref tag and put the material in it like this:. Then you put this after the sentence(s) it needs to back up, and put reflist at the bottom in a References section, so

Sentence needing a ref.

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DYK
Your welcome! Always willing to help out. I also wanted to let know that I nominated your article to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. --​​ ​​D.B. talk • contribs 03:53, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Images
The images of the piantings are very nice - it might be useful to add their dates to the captions. It is possible someone may question the copyright status, if so you may need to go through the OTRS system, but that is a bridge to cross only if needed. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Stephen Etnier

 * Congratulations! Ruhrfisch  &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 05:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

WP:FEED
I left you some feedback on WP:FEED per your request. Sorry it is so late. I haven't been giving feedback as often lately (school and whatnot), and there aren't many editors that consistently watch that page. If you enjoyed getting the feedback, you should consider answering somebody else's request on that page! :) Killiondude (talk) 07:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Mizpah
Could you give me one example of something you want added as an inline ref and I will do it and then you can see and ask questions if it is not clear? Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 20:38, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks!

At the end of "Final Years" there are two hyperlinks. They also appear as last two items in the reference section.

Perhaps I put them in OK, but it doesn't seem right to me. Seems like the hyperlinks at the end of "Final Years" should just be numbers pointing to the References section?

Etnier (talk) 01:49, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry I missed your reply here and thanks for replying on my talk page - I will add the two links as inline citations within the next 8 hours or so. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 20:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much!! Etnier (talk) 03:50, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome Let me know if you have more questions. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 10:50, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of John Etnier


The article John Etnier has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Individual of questionable notability, all references are unverifiable, possible autobiography

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Nomination of John Etnier for deletion
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