User talk:Paulfcockburn

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Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland
Hello Paulfcockburn, thank you for your interest in improving this article. But Wikipedia is not supposed to serve as an indiscriminate database or directory (see WP:NOTDIRECTORY for more details), and ideally all information should be based on independent reliable sources. Extensive historical information, especially without sources to establish their significance from an encyclopedic point of view, are better hosted on the organization's own website where interested readers can easily look them up via the "External link" in the article. If any of the previous awards have been mentioned in detail in independent reliable sources, some of them could be re-added of course (but maybe better as prose in a dedicated more-detailed history section).

On a more positive note, I have also cleaned up most of the formatting and tried to improve the article's structure. I hope these changes are helpful, but please feel free to ping me if you have any further questions. You'll find a basic "how to" guide about referencing at WP:REFB, if you'd like to add further references. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 13:45, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Paulfcockburn (talk) 18:24, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

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