User talk:Mnblp

November 2007
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article.  nancy  21:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your email
Megan, thanks for the email (although in future if you could communicate via either this page or my own talk page it would be easier).

Whilst I admire & support your attempt to get your class to collaborate on an article it must at all times conform to Wikipedia's policies and standards and also remember that you & your students do not own it. Any editor is within their rights to make changes, remove unencyclopaedic or unreferenced text, remove comments/talk and even nominate the entire page for deletion should it so qualify. In order to prevent this happening it would be much more sensible if you built the article on a personal page - e.g. your own userpage (User:Mnblp) or a sub-page of your userpage e.g. User:Mnblp/sandbox and then copied it to the proper article when it was finished.

I think it might be helful to your project if you took a moment to read up on what Wikipedia is and how to contribute in the most effective way. These pages are a good place to start:
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

I do hope that you and your students enjoy editing here and being Wikipedians! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~ ; this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place  before the question on your talk page. Kind regards,  nancy  22:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)