User talk:Morris Grover

Whale Watching Center
Thank you for your effort on Whale Watching Center. The changes you made were, on balance, further from the manual of style than the article was before, so I've reverted them. Please review the Manual of Style (MOS). In particular, putting external links in the text body—especially the lead—is to be avoided. Also, note that the OSPRD website is copyrighted, so using its sentences is illegal. Please ask any questions you might have here, or on my talk page. Thanks! And Welcome! —EncMstr (talk) 19:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I am Morris Grover, the Director of the Whale Watching Center and Park Ranger for Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept.(OPRD, not OSPRD) I was editing the article for accuracy.
 * The change of the external link was to direct readers to the specific "whale center" link and not the "OPRD general" link. The general link will leave them several "clicks" away from the page they were looking for.


 * I will take a look at the MOS, maybe that will help with the entry style, but my expertise is whales, not computers.


 * Thanks
 * Morris --Morris Grover (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your efforts. Given your identity, there are several additional policies you should review: conflict of interest, neutral point of view, ownership of articles, reliable sources, and no original research.


 * I've modified the article again, this time attempting to salvage your changes. Your change of 19,000 whales is not in any of the references.  As strange as it seems, you, as an expert, cannot publish that on Wikipedia, without citing a reliable, fact-checked source.  If you can get the Parks website to update with the new information, that's probably good enough.


 * The link to OPRD is an internal Wikipedia link, and arrives at Oregon Parks and Recreation Department through a redirect. URLs are highly discouraged in articles.  See what Wikipedia is not.  —EncMstr (talk) 20:04, 3 June 2008 (UTC)