User talk:Rbegleiter

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Ralph Begleiter
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Ralph Begleiter article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Heycos 18:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Biography pages and NPOV: Reply
Hi, Ralph, sorry I could not respond to your message right away. On rereading my comment at Talk:Ralph Begleiter I think I was a bit harsh. But I do believe the article needs work. As for the examples you cite, please be aware that just because a poor article exists on Wikipedia and hasn't been labeled as defective, that doesn't make it a good article. There's a specific guideline to that effect somewhere.

As for generally getting oriented, the "five pillars" are a great starting place if you haven't seen them: Here's a link. I also like What Wikipedia is not.

I hope this helps. Get back in touch whenever you like. We're all meant to help each other out here. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 01:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)