User talk:Johnathangibbs

August 2007
Welcome. I am concerned that the articles you are creating (which appear really interesting) are original research. That is completely forbidden here. Everything in the encyclopedia is to be verifiable and backed up by reliable sources. The citations in your articles make it appear that you are using Wikipedia to publish your original research. Feel free to contribute, but read up on some of our policies lest all your contributions be deleted. If you have any questions, please follow up here; I will watch this page for any replies. MKoltnow 18:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Shout music
Hi Johnathan,

I have deleted your article on shout music because you blanked the page leaving only an under construction notice. I think, however, that this topic, which you seem to be quite knowledgable about could be a fine addition to the project. If you need the text that you blanked back in order to work on it, then I can retrieve it for you and place it on your user page, or create a user sub-page for it.

If I may make a few suggestions, the text read much like a school research paper, which is a fine start. However for an encyclopedia, you should assume a more neutral and dispationate tone. Also you should assume that your reader will no little abou the subject. It is best to define the subject matter as quickly as possible. (If you look around most articles will start with a sentnce that begins "Foo is ... " or "Foo was ...". ) As MKoltnow mentioned above, original research is not allowed. However, if, as seems the case to me, your articles were compiled from other sources this is allowed an encouraged. All we ask is that you list what your sources are. Although,this can be merely by gathering the list of sources together at the end of the article, we also have the ability to insert footnotes if you wish. On a final note, please do not indent your paragraphs, as this causes the wiki software to display the text as one long line. Separate your paragraphs with a single blank line. If I can be of any help to you please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Dsmdgold 00:16, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Shouting
A template has been added to the article Shouting, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. MKoltnow 18:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)