User talk:John Crandell RLA

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Hi, I see you're interested in, or at least have a source on, the Bradbury Building, which is a cool building isn't it? cheers, -- do ncr  am  08:07, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Design of Los Angeles' Famed Bradbury Building - The end of sixty years of (science) fiction
Hello John Crandell RLA,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Design of Los Angeles' Famed Bradbury Building - The end of sixty years of (science) fiction for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, Bradbury Building.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Fbergo (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Bradbury Building Edits
Your edits to Bradbury Building have been reverted, as they violated several wikipedia policies. In particular, they violate WP:NOR (wikipedia articles must not contain original research). You also wrote several sentences in first person narrative ("I furnished it to her...", "During research into the building's history I spoke with architect Brenda Levin..."). Wikipedia articles should never use first person narrative (MOS:PERSON). Encyclopedic articles are not signed and are written from a neutral point of view (WP:NPOV). Please be attentive to style and policies when editing wikipedia.

That said, some of the claims on the current History section of the article are unsourced, and the Ferrell LA Times article explictly calls the ouija part a legend, and should not be taken as a serious source for an encyclopedic article. I will fix the section shortly to reflect that.

Fbergo (talk) 20:19, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Bradbury Building
Please read WP:Original research. WHat you have posted to this article is WP:SYNTHESIS from WP:primary sources, as opposed to direct information taken from WP:secondary sources, which are always preferred, If you have personal theories about the history of the building, get them published by a WP:reliable source, like a magazine or a peer-reviewed journal, at which time they can be used in our article. IN the meantime, we cannot accept original research in our articles. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:56, 12 March 2017 (UTC)