User talk:Makhanko

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Edits to Peru article
Hello, it seems that we have some disagreement over the Peru article. My reason for removing the phrase Hunting tools dating back to more than 11,000 years have been found in the in caves in Pachacamac, Telarmachay, Junin and Lauricocha is that the previous sentence already mentions an approximate date for human settlement in Peruvian territory so there is IMHO no point into extra details. As you can see at WP:SUMMARY Wikipedia articles have several subtopics which lend themselves to create new articles. Thus, there's no need to put all available info on one subject (for instance, Peru) in one article because that'd make the article too long. In this particular case, the History section of the Peru article is intended to be only a summary of topics which should be explained in detail in the History of Peru article.

Furthermore, adding to much text on a single topic goes against WP:UNDUE which states that articles should be balanced in the way they present information. In the matter of our controversy, human settlement is already explained and referenced, there's no need to go into further detail, as that would make the section too long and unbalanced.

Finally, article size is not a measure of its quality. The article for Ecuador is larger but that doesn't make it better. In fact, as you can see at WP:Featured article candidates/Peru, Peru is a featured article, which means it is considered to be the best articles in Wikipedia whereas Ecuador is rated by WP:COUNTRIES as just a C-class article, which means the following


 * The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.

So, in conclusion, I think there is no need to insert additional text in the Peru article, further details on subtopics should go on the appropriate subarticles. --Victor12 (talk) 15:53, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

October 2010
Your addition to Machu Picchu has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Johnuniq (talk) 06:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC)