User talk:PA Packard

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Human Journey (May 25)
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GoingBatty (talk) 18:50, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I know you've been here a while, but see that you hadn't received a standard welcome message, which has some useful links, so I added one here. Please also see WP:INDENT when you have a chance. —[ Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 15:58, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Human Journey


Hello, PA Packard. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Human Journey".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 22:49, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Robert E. Ornstein
Hi, thanks for your additions to Robert E. Ornstein. Please note that external links (eg to the subject's web site and The Idries Shah Foundation's web site) should usually not be added to the main body of the text, and especially not in the lead sentence. Anyhow, thanks again. Regards,  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   20:27, 11 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your corrections. I am not very familiar with wikipedia policy on external links.
 * By the way, do you think it would be apropriate to add external links to the Idries Shah Foundation and to the Robert Ornstein Youtube channel ? The youtube channel has several of his interviews about his works and I found it very informative. PA Packard (talk) 07:33, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I also was wondering if you knew in which cases it would be appropriate to add external links to the main body of the text? PA Packard (talk) 07:37, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi. The place for external links is the section at the bottom of the article, headed "External links". I've added the YouTube channel since that is directly relevant to the subject, but not a link to the ISF as that is not really relevant enough. That's about as many external links as we want really. Adding external links to the main body may be seen as being promotional (the same with using bold for book titles, rather than just italic). It's a Wikipedia article, not an advert, nor for promotional purposes.
 * The "See also" section is for internal wikilinks to other articles, so The Idries Shah Foundation is fine there.
 * Regards,  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   07:59, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Also, any significant facts that are added to the article really need to be cited to independent, reliable secondary sources, for the benefit of readers so they can verify the text, or else they could be challenged by other editors.  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   08:08, 12 August 2022 (UTC)