User talk:Michellecrisp/Archives/2008/August

Tourism
Hi there. I have noticed you made several edits on the Tourism article. Can you drop by and check some edits User:76.109.246.250 did, I rv, then leave him a message in his/her talk page. Without answering he went and did it again, and his is also deleting accessdates on several references, but this does not look as vandalism on his part. Check on the history, I just want to avoid an edit war with him, so I rather wait for a third party to take a look before rv him again. Thanks. --Mariordo (talk) 14:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Stuttgart article, citation needed
Thanks for your contributions to the above. I overhauled the entire article in the last year so it's nice to know someone is keeping a watchful eye on things. You added a couple of fact tags to the article yesterday. Having been to the Template:Fact page, I noticed it does say "It is particularly important to place the template carefully in long sentences to clearly indicate what you are calling into question. In many complicated technical subjects with involved sentences, this is frequently not possible at all, so it is good practice to annotate your concern as well." So I was wondering if you could possibly give me some pointers as to your concern. Especially given that vast parts of this section are based on the German article, which was researched til the cows came home. Thx. BuzzWoof (talk) 18:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

RMIT Research Institutes
Hi Michelle,

Regarding your removal of information regarding research institutes and centres in the RMIT article, I've re-added them for two reasons:

1) There is nothing in the WP:NOTDIR stating that articles NEED to have their own Wikipedia article just to be considered notable. External links to each institute and centres respective website were added to give readers the option of futher information, until such time as a dedicated article is created. Wikipedia is a "work in progess", to already have an article for everything notable that exists in the world is impossible. It would be detrimental to the article and for the reader to omit this information using the logic "if it doesn't exist on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist at all".

2) It's not a "directory" of research institutes and centres, but a list of notable institutes and centres with work that contributes greatly in Australia and globally, or are unique to RMIT. To constitute a directory it would need to contain ALL of RMIT's respective research institutes and centres, notable or not. The ones listed are contributing research in a national or international capacity, or to the state of Victoria (through government association), or are unique to RMIT. To quote directly from WP:NOTDIR: "...there is nothing wrong with having lists if their entries are famous because they are associated with or significantly contributed to the list topic".

Cheers,

AshGreen (talk) 12:32, 07 August 2008 (AEST)