User talk:Karil Daniels

Re: Your edits on Waterbirth
Hello & welcome to Wikipedia. I've just spent a chunk of time running through your edits on the Waterbirth article. I am one of the editors who have worked on the article (see the "history" page). I think it's wonderful that you have made this film, and I hope I will have the opportunity to see it some day.

From your description, I think your film deserves mention somewhere in the article -- possibly under a new section/heading for films on the subject. However, it doesn't belong under "Research" -- and more importantly, as the filmmaker, you are considered to have a "conflict of interest" when it comes to writing about your own film. The section you wrote would, in all likelihood, be considered "self-promotion" by most readers and editors, if left in its current form.

What this means is explained at Conflict of interest which also gives guidelines that can assist you in re-writing it yourself, unless you would prefer to leave it to another (disinterested) editor. (I'm short on time right now, but there's no rush, so if you or another editor doesn't get it done, I will probably have time later in the week.) In the meantime, I'm going move the section you wrote to the "talk page" for the article; once it's redone in comformity with WP guidelines, it can go right back into the article (though not in the same section, of course).

There's also one other issue I need to mention: the "show preview" button. Like all new editors, there's a lot to learn about how to get things right using the WP software, etc. I could see that you made a valiant effort to get that link right, but it was very time-consuming to have to look through each & every attempt, all saved as separate individual edits. So I would like to share the suggestion I recently made to another new editor:


 * Rather than immediately saving your edits, try them out with the "show preview" button first, so you can see what it looks like. Then, if you want to re-do the edit, all you have to do is use your "back" button and make the change there, in the same box you were just working in -- all of your text will still be waiting there for you. You can repeat this as many times as needed -- then when you get it "right", you can use the "save page" button. This is much better for all of your fellow editors, who won't need to waste their time going through a whole series of minor changes.

I hope this has been helpful to you! :) Cgingold 15:34, 20 November 2006 (UTC)