User talk:Michael S. Roberts

Newspapers
Just a couple of notes for you about your articles on Sun Media community weekly papers: Your contributions are certainly appreciated, though, and resulting in a lot more depth about the topics than we might have been able to compile otherwise. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 01:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Only large cities with a significant number of their own local media outlets actually get their own dedicated "Media in City" categories. Please don't add "Media in (Place)" to papers in places like Napanee or Cochrane which don't have enough other media to get such a category.
 * 2) Please watch what you're linking to; while the title "Napanee" does lead to the article about the town in Ontario, it does so only because there isn't anything else called Napanee. "Cochrane", however, is the name of a lot of other things, and accordingly the title "Cochrane" doesn't lead to the article about the Ontario town — in that case, you have to link directly to Cochrane, Ontario.
 * 3) Only wikilink the first appearance of a term in an article. That is, only put square brackets around the first time the word "newspaper", or the name of the town the newspaper is located in, appears in the body of the article, not every time.
 * 4) I realize that you probably work for a division of Sun Media, but please don't write the articles in the first person. That is, write that "the newspaper has a circulation of X", not that "our (or we have a) circulation of X". This is just to cover your bases; while the articles as written aren't really raising direct WP:COI issues, somebody can take issue if the articles even create the appearance of having been written by the subject themselves.