User talk:Jimmcb

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Pleistocene rewilding
Jim – apologies, but I've just reverted the work you've done so far on the rewilding article (see Talk:Pleistocene Rewilding). Sorry if this seems unfriendly – it's really not intended to be. In fact I've been thinking for a while that the article needed a good bit of work, and from what you wrote I think you're going to be able to contribute a good deal to it.

The difficulty is really one of wiki etiquette – by substituting your material you've junked a lot of work done by others. Not that much of the old material didn't need heavy editing, but wiki editing is an iterative, collaborative process, and so changes are best made bit by bit – this gives other editors the opportunity to look at the new stuff you're offering and discuss it. If a para does need a complete rewrite, one way to do it is to offer your new version in draft on the article's talk page.

You may find it helpful to spend some time looking at Your first article and Manual of Style, as well as looking at the way Wiki markup has been used in other articles to do refs, links etc. I look forward to seeing your further contributions. Best regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 12:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)