User talk:L. John Dory

Welcome!
Hello, Ljohndory, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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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! Happy Squirrel (talk) 03:39, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Some tips
Hello and welcome! I see that you are doing a splendid job for a newbie on some art articles. Nice! However there are some things I suggest you read. I noticed that you very often use the "minor edit" marking, even when you make rather large edits. Please read Help:Minor edit for more info on this. The article about Henri Beau has a very large number of subsections and the sections are more or less just lists of sentences. Try to make it more cohesive and crisp encyclopedic by merging some of the smaller sections. Also, you should refer to him as just "Beau" in the article after the first sentence, not his full name "Henri Beau" as you have done. Take a look at how some other articles about noted artists are written. In the first welcome post here on your talk page, there are several links to help pages about how to make articles, please take some time to read those. It you have any specific question you can ask at the Teahouse (see invitation below) or at my talk page. Best, w.carter -Talk  23:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Please also learn how to leave "edit summaries" for your edits. See: Help:Edit summary. Cheers, w.carter -Talk  00:08, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse!
w.carter -Talk  23:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Editing
Hello again! Nice to see that you are working on some other art articles as well, you will be a great addition to the editors here.

I read on your user page that you only want to be contacted through your Twitter account. Sorry, but that's not how things work here. Posts about Wikipedia articles, users and other WP matters should be done on the talk pages here at the WP. This is a very open community and all editors should be able to follow the discussions on the site and not have to go to other sites to communicate. Building an encyclopedia is very different from Internet social forums.

I saw in your posts on Happysquirrel's talk page that you are interested in improving the quality and the rating of the articles you work on. Great! All the articles here have to conform to a set of rules called Manual of Style or MOS. These are rules for what style articles should be written in and they have been hammered out through consensus by the community over the years. Whitout this manual, this would not be an encyclopedia but just a collection of essays. We have the rest of the Internet for that. MOS is a very long list of dos and don'ts, and it will take some time before you know the most essential parts of it, but this is where we, your colleague editors come in. So, the tips I gave you here earlier were not my personal opinion, but tips based on MOS.

I am one of the editors here who help newbies out with such things. Usually we start with very basic stuff, but since you are an experienced writer and you seem to have grasped much of the formatting and so on already, I'm approaching your work on a much higher level. If you want an article to be among the very best here and get a high rating, you have to adhere to MOS for style just as much as you have to provide good sourced facts.

I have edited Henri Beau to conform with MOS, leaving notes of my edits in my editing summaries. You can read those by clicking on the "View history" tab. I know it's a lot to take in and that most authors who are used to another style of writing finds this first encounter with the crisp and neutral writing of an encyclopedia shocking, but please familiarize yourself with these changes for your further work and the articles you start could be well on their way to Good Article status. I also saw that you have listed the books you have written, great, you can use some things from those if you do it with uttermost caution and don't quote sections where you express your own opinions or your own research. See WP:SELFCITE and No original research. (oops, sorry, the "Bibliography" section on your user page was just about the article you have started here. We just call that "Articles I've started/contributed to" here, perhaps you should change that so other users don't make the same mistake.) Cheers, w.carter -Talk  11:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Oh, and please remember to sign all your posts with the four tildes: ~. See why here: Signatures. w.carter -Talk  12:18, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Beau at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Henri Beau
Hello L. John Dory:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Henri Beau has been completed. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Henri Beau
Mifter (talk) 00:01, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Canadian Impressionism for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Canadian Impressionism is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  freshacconci  (✉) 01:57, 2 February 2020 (UTC)