User talk:Landry76

Mount Vernon
Unfortunately, I've felt obliged to revert to the Mount Vernon article because much of your contribution was a word-for-word copy of the text in "Travel Washington, DC: Travel Guide Illustrated with Maps and Photographs", which I must suppose to be a copyright work. Please take time to read Copy-paste which is intended to give simple guidance on how to write for Wikipedia without violating other people's copyright, or unintentionally committing plagiarism (which is passing off another's work as your own). In its simplest terms if I can find a phrase like "came into possession of the land from which Mount Vernon plantation would be carved" in both your text and the source, then you're paraphrasing too closely to claim that you're writing in your own words.

As some of the organisational changes you made are clearly worth looking at (e.g. moving the Washington's Tomb section to a subsection of grounds), I'd suggest you start a discussion on Talk:Mount Vernon to garner some other opinions and seek to make changes in small chunks, getting feedback at each stage - too many changes in a single edit makes it very difficult for other interested editors to discuss what you are trying to do. --RexxS (talk) 18:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi RexxS! Thank you for the warm welcome and comments above. Point taken!  How odd my contributions would be so close to the text you mentioned since I have not read it.  I guess I should be a travel guide writer! :) I do want to point out that the phrase you mentioned above was not my contribution and can still be found in the reverted article.  I'm assuming my detailing of the rooms is what was so close to the text you mentioned?


 * You're right, I was too bold in my revisions and need to start off small. Thank you for taking the time to explain the process and keep me on the straight and narrow. I guess I do need to be adopted! -- Landry76 (talk) 20:25, 15 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Howdy Landry76; another talkpage-stalker chiming in with an additional welcome here (I modified your reply to RexxS with some colons -- most folks are touchy about other people modifying their comments but in this case I wanted to show you how the formatting works so I made an exception). Please call me 74, nice to meet you.  I ran across you on Giano's user-talkpage.
 * You are always free to be bold, that is doing it exactly right.  If somebody wants to 'complain' about your changes, they will revert your changes, which seems rude at first, but you'll find it is the norm, fortunately or unfortunately.  Just take it in stride.  All that it means, is they want you to take the subject to the article-talkpage, and bring it up there, so everybody who is interested in the article-topic, can work together on the ideas.  There is actually a nice overview of the typical workflow-process here at WP:BRD, which stands for Bold/Revert/Discuss.
 * For something oh-so-controversial like adding infoboxen to an article... which is a surprisingly bitter "religious" issue on wikipedia... no way for you to know that of course but don't worry you'll get the hang of navigating the wikiCulture... usually I will instead follow Discuss/Revert/DiscussEvenMore. :-)    This goes double for high-traffic articles like Mount Vernon, which millions of readers see.  Anyhoo, Giano and RexxS are top-notch folks, you will learn a lot from them.  I also recommend the WP:TEAHOUSE for fast answers to quick questions.  Feel free to drop in on my user-talkpage anytime, as well, if you get stuck or need a hand with something.  See you around, and thanks much for improving wikipedia.
 * p.s. As for the carved-from-a-plantation-thing, that happens from time to time. Give WP:TONE a read-through, it will help if you keep your language WP:NPOV and carefully bland... wikipedia is about conveying facts, and although good prose is a part of that, picturesque turns of phrase are best avoided... partly because, many of them that seem original when we write them out, prolly are cliches we dimly remember.  For instance, the very phrase "picturesque turns of phase are best avoided" ... which I wrote just now myself... is almost certainly on the internet somewhere already!  :-)   Hope this helps.  74.192.84.101 (talk) 00:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Can you please add Palazzo di Amore to List of largest houses in the United States?
Can you please add Palazzo di Amore to List of largest houses in the United States? --Jax 0677 (talk) 15:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 *  Reply - Sorry for the delay in getting back with you. I have not added Palazzo di Amore previously as it is a compound, and according to the tax records the main house is "only" 28,122 sf. --Landry76 (talk)

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