User talk:Greenbird71

Hi Greenbird and welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you are a new editor so you are still learning the ins and outs of Wiki. That is great. We all started out that way. I see that you are helping to edit the Stephen Gill article which I am also working on. I wanted to mention a few things for you to keep in mind. One that Wiki is an encyclopedia and so the text should have an encyclopedic and factual tone. Secondly, that all text in Wiki needs to be be cited in the article to a reliable source such as news or magazine article (online is OK). If not the the text can be challenged by any editor and removed. So if you are going to add more text to that article (and I hope you do), please consider these two points. I look forward to working with you on the article.-- — Kbob • Talk  • 21:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi again Greenbird. Thank you for adding references to the Stephen Gill article. Unfortunately the references to the Stephen Gill web site is what Wiki considers a "primary source". This kind of a source is OK for objective facts about the subject, like the year he was born or where he went to school. But Wiki does not allow subjective text like his creative process or his philosophy or thinking behind his art etc. About 90% of the text currently in the Book section of the article would fall in this category. So please look for 'secondary sources' such as news and magazine articles to support that text otherwise it will need to be removed. For more info on source policies see WP:RS Thanks. -- — Kbob • Talk  • 20:03, 27 November 2009 (UTC)