User talk:Howard F Jones

Welcome!
Hello, Howard F Jones, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Newport Pagnell. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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but not so much very local detail
You could argue this one if you like but it seemed to me that you went into too much detail about the Bowls Club. Wikipedia is not a replacement for a club web page or facebook page. The target readership for an article about Newport Pagnell is someone from halfway across the country, who doesn't really want to to know that much detail. On the other hand, we do want to give the article 'texture' rather than just dry facts so some detail is good. If you think I have overdone the pruning, your text is still available in the article history.

Either way, thank you for contributing new material to Wikipedia. Editing is easy, generating new material requires research. So once again, welcome! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2019 (UTC)