User talk:Nataliethommas214

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Hi and welcome :)

A couple of things you should know:

Uniform formatting of articles is something Wikipedia holds very dear, and generally we don't put horizontal lines after each section of an article. Horizontal lines are to be used sparingly on Wikipedia, and only when there's a specific need.

Also: I'm noticing that your contributions tend towards the college-thesis, broad social study reports -- such as the sections you added to New media and Telegraphy, in which you presented some competing theories on the subjects' effects on society today. These are interesting studies in and of themselves, but they don't really belong in an encyclopedia article on the subject. Encyclopedia articles generally stay focused on the subject at hand, rather than deviating and presenting theories on how the subject has affected other subjects -- unless the topic of the article specifically is about an interaction between subjects.

For instance, you said in the New media article:

"From the telegraph, the capabilities of technological innovation to enhance our ability for sending, transmitting and receiving information have extended dramatically. Rather than operating in a state of information scarcity whereby a message took several days to arrive, we now enjoy the ability to obtain information instantly and therefore are faced with more available information than any society before. For some theorists such as McKenzie Wark, this has its obvious benefits, attributing the telegraph to challenging time and space to provide what he refers to as the ‘global village speed of thought’, which allows for the consolidation of information for power, profit and productivity."

Something like this goes well beyond providing information about telegraphy itself. Understanding the subject of telegraphy doesn't involve reading up on the present theories of how the technology has abstractly and indirectly affected business and society today, except perhaps in very limited summary style (much more limited than the additions that you've proposed, I'm afraid).

That's not to say your contributions are not well-written and interesting. It's just that they don't belong in these particular articles in their entirety. Perhaps an article specifically titled "Theories of technological impact", or something along those lines, would be more appropriate. I don't know offhand if an article like that exists, but it would certainly be interesting, and you could even create one yourself -- just click here to get it started.

I hope I've been helpful, and of course I hope I haven't turned you off from editing at Wikipedia. We always welcome new contributors and realize that our rules etc. can take some getting used to. If I can help you out in any way please don't hesitate to leave a comment at my talk page or right here on your page. I'll see it either way. Good luck! Equazcion • argue/improves • 08:38, 10/14/2007