User talk:Otleystu

Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hello, Otlestu, and welcome! I presume you're one of the good people who volunteer with the Otley museum. ( Please don't answer the implied question, in order to preserve your privacy. ) I noticed your changes to the article, and made a few follow-up changes myself. I'm just another Wikipedia volunteer editor, by the way, although a very experienced one.

I did have to restore the "references" section to the article. We have policies that prohibit entirely unreferenced articles, and besides, having no references is a sort of "red flag" that tends to cause other volunteers to propose an article for our deletion process. I wouldn't want to see that happen; I like your efforts to keep the local history accessible. I should also mention that all our articles aren't supposed to be edited by people who are directly involved in the subject they document, so phrasing like "our website", and "visit us" is straight out. As long as you're not adding advert-like content, or suchlike, though, I doubt anyone is likely to object. For full disclosure about that, you might like to have a look at our page about conflict-of-interest editing.

Our help desk is a great resource for new editors, if you have any questions; you'll usually get an answer there from an experienced volunteer within 30 minutes or so, and probably faster if you post there during daytime or evening hours in the States, where so many of our editors reside. You're also welcome to post a question to the end of my own talk page ( ignore the message you'll see that says to follow-up on the page where our "conversation" began ) although I'll probably take much longer to respond, since I don't log on to Wikipedia every day. Best regards, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 18:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Postscript - May I suggest that someone from your organisation contact the National Archives, to update the Museum's entry there? It hasn't been updated since 2004, I find. – OhioStandard  (talk) 18:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)