User talk:HitchProf

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 * Hello. Thanks for pointing these things out. I was actually trying a few simple technical things to get used to the process - namely adding some valuable recent sources rather than adding content as such. Sure, some of the authors are people I have heard of (the first change - Cartimandua was a spelling correction of the author's name which was already there!!!).
 * (1) The Luddite page is a poor one and requires far too much work for me to do much on, hence the two references which provide additional information. There were others I could have added as well. I was not interested in adding content.
 * (2) Trung sisters - there are no English language novels on them save Hutchison's. Could you retain the text please. The description offered was uncontroversial.
 * (3) Hitchhiking page. Fair enough. The reason I signed up to do editing does have a conflict of interest in so much that the Hitchhiking page is something I am one of the best informed people to edit. It is a particularly insubstantial page, largely because there are few hitchhiking scholars. I am one of them and capable of rewriting the entire page with new sections. There needs to be an 'origins' section, a better 'definitions' one and a 'scholarly work' one. I needn't be quoting myself!!
 * This raises an interesting ethical area in that really unusual content may not have many sympathetic or capable editors able to add to the wiki - so then the historical detail gets lost. Anyway thanks for reading. HitchProf (talk) 17:45, 5 May 2022 (UTC)


 * This I guess is one of the great paradoxes of Wikipedia, and also its strength. Those with a great and intimate knowledge of the subject are often constrained by their conflict of interests as they are often the authors or the more authoritative articles/ blogs/ books/ TV programmes. By limiting sources to those found by non-conflicted editors in mainstream sources, Wikipedia may not be as well informed as it might be, but it does have a more solid bed-rock of citations to rely upon. I very rarely write about what I know best for this very reason. Some articles make me cringe because I know that they could be improved, but the inside of my head is not a reliable source so I edit elsewhere. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 22:13, 5 May 2022 (UTC)