User talk:Gregsonpj

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Hello, Gregsonpj, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Johnuniq (talk) 08:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
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Peter Gregson
I noticed that you are editing Peter Gregson and I want to offer a few suggestions. The first point is that it takes quite a long time to become used to how things are done here, so please be patient because you will find that someone (probably me) will remove quite a lot of the material you added to the article. By the way, your username suggests you may have a connection with the subject, so you might like to review WP:COI. Your expertise is welcome, and there is no need to particularly worry about the COI issue, but it is necessary to draw your attention to the guideline.

All articles should follow the style guide, and it is standard to put the name of the subject in bold near the start of the first sentence. Titles for a person are given soon after the name, but are not used in the article (we do not say "Professor Gregson", we say "Gregson"). Articles must avoid marketing talk like "Underpinned by excellence in research". It is sometimes desirable to give a short quote (attributed to a reliable source), where the person being quoted uses flowery language, but an article must not take a "point of view" on a subject.

A big problem with the article is that it does not contain any references. All material must be verifiable, so if you are able to help with some links to relevant material (online or otherwise published), please do so.

There are lots of policies/guidelines about all this, but they are a bit overwhelming for someone just wanting to edit an article. If interested, ask here, or see the links in the "welcome" above. Normally a discussion like this should occur on the talk page of the article (Talk:Peter Gregson); I have only posted here because you are a new editor. If there is a problem with the article (for example, wrong or misleading text), please spell out what the problem is (I will notice a reply here or on the article talk page). Feel free to ask any questions. Johnuniq (talk) 08:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Copyright
I started to edit Peter Gregson to fix some of the issues I mentioned above, but then I noticed that the new text is from QUB. This point perplexes many new editors, but it is an absolute rule here that anything that may be a copyright violation has to be removed immediately (see WP:Copyrights). Accordingly, I reverted your edits and will wait to see if you want to discuss how you would like to proceed. I may be able to help rewrite the article if suitable references are readily available. Johnuniq (talk) 08:34, 24 June 2010 (UTC)