User talk:Leeselvester

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Hello, Leeselvester, 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: 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 will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Rezin (talk) 02:09, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
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The BASC article needs some major revision because it's based too closely on the association's own website. See Talk:British Association for Shooting and Conservation. Any chance you'd be up for the job? I can help with formatting and other Wikipedia-specific issues. Rezin (talk) 02:12, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Im not quite sure what you need doing? The about us page on our website (I work for BASC) is based around the wiki page. Leeselvester (talk) 09:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I will speak to our publications department to see if they can re-write the article to be less promotional and more factual. Ill let you know on here when I have a timescale. Leeselvester (talk) 09:42, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't realize you were connected. It sounds like a great organization. It can be hard to tell whether a Wikipedia article is copied from an outside source, or that outside source is copied from Wikipedia. It's perfectly OK to copy text from Wikipedia, but it should be acknowledged. See Reusing Wikipedia content. I see that BASC pages are marked as copyrighted, so it's not OK to copy from them into Wikipedia, unless a free-use license has been granted. Even then, it'd probably be too promotional. Learning to write in Wikipedia's neutral point of view is not easy - it requires reporting facts (and sometimes opinions) mostly from reliable secondary sources without adopting any of them as "true". Anyway, thanks for taking this request to heart. Do what you can. The ethos of Wikipedia is that we all improve it a little bit, here and there. Rezin (talk) 20:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Our head of Press, Simon Clarke has asked if you could email him so he can get this resolved. simon.clarke@basc.org.uk  Leeselvester (talk) 09:49, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking this seriously, but we don't have to take it too seriously. Probably the most helpful thing that your press officer could do would be to compile a list, perhaps including reprints where appropriate or allowable, of news reports about the BASC. Many organisations maintain such webpages, with titles like "Media" or "In The News". The point being that the article should be based primarily on those reports. Rezin (talk) 19:43, 21 January 2015 (UTC)