User talk:MichTLPS

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 * I note that you have lifted the majority of your update for Michael Hoey's article verbatim from the various obituaries written about him. You are free to use these sources, but you must write the article in your own words. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
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Michael Hoey article
I went to a considerable amount of trouble to clean up Michael Hoey's biography, including cleaning up the citations and removing material that is not encyclopedic. Can you please explain why you chose to discard that work? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

No idea how this reaches you? "You went through a considerable amount of work"? What about the considerable amount of work I went through to un-delete material that was pointlessly deleted (in particular in light of what has been left standing? What qualifications have you got? Anyway, I shall not ever try and put anything on this platform again and, knowing how a single 'moderator' (rather than a minimum of two knowledgable reviewers in dialogue with the author) can just decided what is relevant and what is not.

Anyway, your changes have meant I sought out more sources and hopefully the resulting page - as it is now - can finally stand, please?
 * You may well be more knowledgeable than I on the matter of linguistics or Hoey's biography (knowledgeable enough, I would say, that you may have been personally acquainted with him, which would raise conflict of interest concerns), but I would argue that I am more experienced at editing at Wikipedia, with its guidelines and manual of style. Much of the material you added does not conform to the style of writing expected in an encyclopedia (well, at the very least, at this encyclopedia), and much of your material was copied verbatim from the various sources you cited (sufficient to be problematic in relation to Wikipedia's copyright violation policies). For the record: I am no a "moderator" at Wikipedia; I am just a volunteer editor like you. If my reversion of your original edits caused you to find more sources, more the better. I believe the content of the article (following my latest edits) properly meets Wikipedia's needs. I may spend some more time cleaning up the referencing and the bibliography sections, but these are minor technical issues. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Grand. well, we all live and learn.