User talk:GaSouthernCEAnder

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. You are to be commended for your local knowledge and research on the Bulloch County Courthouse. I do not wish to get into an edit war with you. I just tried to point out some ways to improve the article. The lead paragraph is weak and needs reinforcing. Dates in NRHP infoboxes are no longer Wikified (linked). Do reconsider what belongs in the courthouse article and what belongs in an article on the county. Avoid overWikification, for example, once something (say courthouse is linked, it doesn't need to be linked thereafter. Below are some general things I find helpful. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 02:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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The Five Ws
In journalism, the Five Ws (also known as the Five Ws (and one H) or simply the Six Ws) is a concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that most people consider to be fundamental. It is a formula for getting the "full" story on something. The maxim of the Five Ws (and one H) is that in order for a report to be considered complete it must answer a checklist of six questions, each of which comprises an interrogative word:


 * 1) Who?
 * 2) What?
 * 3) Where?
 * 4) When?
 * 5) Why?
 * 6) How?

The principle underlying the maxim is that each question should elicit a factual answer &mdash; facts that it is necessary to include for a report to be considered complete. Importantly, none of these questions can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no".

In the context of the "news style" for newspaper reporting, the Five Ws are types of facts that should be contained in the "lead" (sometimes spelled lede to avoid confusion with the typographical term "leading" or similarly spelled words), or first two or three paragraphs of the story, after which more expository writing is allowed.

The "Five Ws" (and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories" (1902), in which a poem accompanying the tale of "The Elephant's Child" opens with:

(They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. I unwikified some of the links in the Bulloch County Courthouse article. I will take the rest of your advice into consideration. --GaSouthernCEAnder (talk) 03:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
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