User talk:Mimandmoo

Thank you for contributing to the Eastbourne article. Your user page indicates that you are new to Wikipedia and so I thought it would be helpful (and polite) to explain the various changes which I’ve made to your edits. The first point is that statements such as the one about a tunnel from the Lamb have to be backed up by in-line citations from a reference book or other reliable source. (In this case, any book or pamphlet produced by the Lamb itself would not be acceptable.)

I’ve therefore put “citation needed” in brackets after the sentence about the tunnel. It will be up to you (or another user) to provide a reliable citation to back up the statement about the tunnel. On the other hand, someone may find a source which negates this claim. (I’ve read something about this tunnel but can’t remember for the moment where I saw it or what it states!)

You can get the full story about citations at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources

The other point is that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia: articles must therefore not contain commercial references or read like an advertising leaflet. So it’s not appropriate to mention the cellar tours which are organised by the Lamb.

There’s more about this at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_add_new_article

To fill you in about the Eastbourne article, I can tell you that it has been in existence since 2003. It achieved Good Article (GA) status in 2007. There was a further review in July 2011; following this, the GA classification was maintained. All of this can be seen on the article's discussion page.

For the GA status to be achieved and maintained, certain guidelines have to be observed. One of the most important is, as I say above, that facts need to be justified by in-line citations. Inserting in-line citations can be tricky but there are various templates which make life easier. One of these is at:

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php

I hope the above has not put you off or that you will take it as nit-picking. There are several regular contributors to the Eastbourne and if you need help just put a message on one of the talk pages. Mikeo1938 (talk) 07:10, 19 September 2012 (UTC)