User talk:LukeSeubert/Caravel (espresso machine)

Welcome, and the "To Do" List
Greetings. Welcome to the Discussion section for the Wikipedia article about the Caravel espresso machine. Please help to improve this article by contributing your time, talent, and expertise. Together, we can build an excellent information resource for Caravel espresso machine afficianados throughout the world, as well as anybody wishing to learn more about the Caravel.

The overall structure of this article and the main headings are in decent shape, although suggestions for additions, deletions, or rearrangements are appreciated. I am slowly writing and editing the article's introductory lead section, as well as the "Making espresso" section, which is based upon the original instructions that came with the Caravel. Recommendations and improvements in these sections are welcome - fact checking is especially helpful! Please do not be at all shy about editing this article. While I may have started it, I do not own it. Our goal is to cooperate in creating a great Wikipedia article about the Caravel.

When this article gets into better shape, I'll move it out of my User area which is used for early drafting and editing, and turn it into a proper, full fledged Wikipedia article.

Some sections need contributions from folks with more expertise than mine. I have included some limited information for these sections, but they need more writing and editing to be thorough and complete:


 * Production history
 * Alternative techniques
 * Tips and troubleshooting
 * Cleaning and regular maintenance
 * Restoration and refurbishment

When you add material, please try to provide outside references or links to other Wikipedia articles for the "Notes and references" section, to verify factual statements. And remember to maintain a Neutral Point of View, or NPOV, in what you write. NPOV is an important part of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia.

In addition to reference links, please contribute ideas for the appendix section. We need suggestions for books and magazine articles for "Further reading", along with "External links" to relevant websites. Please take a look at the "See also" section, which uses the Wikipedia "Coffee" Template. Should we stick with that template, or go with a more conventional bullet list of links to related Wikipedia articles?

reqphoto Additionally, the article needs photographs. These photographs should conform to the Wikipedia standards for photographs. Also, the copyright on the photos has to be a Wikipedia approved license or copyright. I have photo image upload privileges, so anybody with photos to contribute can forward them to me and I'll upload them. It is best to upload Wikipedia article photographs to the Wikimedia Commons under a free license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, v 3.0, or the GNU Free Documentation License, v 1.3.

I'll work on tidying and polishing everything up, and helping with formatting of footnotes, references, etc. If anybody has questions about how to contribute to the article, please ask, or check out the Wikipedia Help Section. Hopefully, the Caravel espresso community will help to make this article worthy of Wikipedia's "Featured Article" status - a high mark of excellence indeed.

LukeSeubert (talk) 11:40, 21 December 2008 (UTC)