User talk:Mikenlin

October 2008
Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you get as much out of this project as I do, and that you continue to help us make the service as good as it can possibly be.

However, I have had to revert some information that you have posted on the various Walt Disney World Resort hotels. Some of the items were not really encyclopedic (such as room amenities at Disney's Port Orleans Resort) or original research (like travel times for Disney's All-Star Resorts). Wikipedia is not meant to be a "how-to" guide or a travelogue.

That said, some of the information you did add could be added back in a different form, such as when rooms were last renovated, provided the source is verifiable. Also, I have no doubt your edits were made in good faith, so please don't construe this as a warning. If anything, it's attempting to be constructive and helpful to someone I hope will become a valuable contributor to the Wikipedia Project. If you feel your edits should be left in place, please discuss them on the respective talk pages. We'll let the editors who frequent the WDW pages find consensus ... as I certainly could be wrong on this. That's why we all work together and help each other out.

You'll find that many of the editors of the Disney articles are very helpful and welcoming, especially to newcomers who are making good-faith changes, so be sure to ask us for help. Thanks, and welcome aboard!

McDoobAU93 (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi McDoobAU93,


 * Thank you for letting me know what should be entered in Wikipedia and what should not. I sincerely apologize for those mistakes.  Even after reading the rules I did not understand completely.  I absolutely love Wikipedia, and have found so much information from it that I use, so I wanted to contribute to it on the other passion that I have - Disney :-)  I had permission from Binnie, the founder of The Mouse For Less, to use whatever information I see on her site.  We had just returned from an awesome trip to Walt Disney World last month so I figured I'd start with the resort section.  I just plugged in information that I didn't see already in those pages that I thought others would like to see.  Now I understand a little more clearly and will try to be more careful.


 * Thanks again and have a magical day! :-D


 * --Mikenlin (talk) 21:47, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Linda


 * You're welcome. I was actually in DisneyQuest when I saw your response; if anything, that shows how much of a Disney nut I am. :) Since you're a Disney fan, take a look at two relevant WikiProjects, those for Disney in general and for the WDW resort. These sub-projects often list articles that they're trying to improve, so it may give you some additional ways to help out.


 * Anyway, I was taking a look at some of your other edits, and I wanted to suggest that you review a couple of sections in the Wikipedia help files, particularly those for external links and sources. The website you mention appears to be a fansite, which generally is not a good candidate for article citations. Also, the information you added looks like it came straight from the website. I do recall you saying that you had permission from the website to use its info, but does that extend to the Wikipedia Project itself? If not, it could be construed as plagiarism.


 * When you're preparing to add something, be sure to review the article to make sure that the information isn't already there. In some of the cases, the information had already appeared earlier in the article. On that, your addition of the recreational amenities for Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge actually does fill a void in the article, but to make it more encyclopedic, perhaps you could add it back in prose form instead of list form. You can go back in the edit history for the article and find your edits and paste them back in, then build the prose around them.


 * Again, I'll be glad to assist you in any way that I can. Feel free to respond to my talk page or to respond here; I'm keeping an eye on your pages (I know, sounds kinda Big Brother-ish, doesn't it?). To borrow from one of my current favorite movies, keep moving forward and, even more importantly, be bold and have fun editing!


 * McDoobAU93 (talk) 05:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)