User talk:Jryan999

Your edits to Sybase IQ
John, thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. The edits you made to the Sybase IQ article were interesting, and generally accurate (I have worked with IQ and was an architect for a VAR selling it), but phrased in a personal, non-encyclopedic manner. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so articles need to be fact based, not personal opinion based. We have policies such as insisting on key information being verifyable and verifyable from reliable sources, and policies that personal opinions and original research are not appropriate content here.

I have for the moment reverted the changes you made to the article. The old version is still there to work off of - if you look at this article history change item you see the changes you made. But for now, the "live" public version is the old one before your changes.

A lot of what you wrote is fact-based, and can be sourced to independent reviews or commentary on the products or to product manuals or descriptions. Some of it, the comparison aspects, are probably independently sourceable to magazine or journal reviews or columns or opinion pieces.

I would encourage you to take a look at those policies I listed, ask me for help on User talk:Georgewilliamherbert or here if you need it, and see if you can rewrite the basic content you added so that it has references and reliable independent sources. You can also propose additions on the article talk page Talk:Sybase IQ. It's OK if you start editing content back into the live article with those policies and writing standards in mind, but if you want to have some help reviewing it to make sure you're on the right track then discussing it before making it live can help.

Finally - the signatures you put on talk page comments (the ~ signature expansion thing you used) don't go into article content updates. Only talk pages... Again, not a critical problem, just part of the process and writing standards here and part of the learning process.

Let me know if you have any more questions! Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)