User talk:Rdsbrown

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Bells
I had marked Bovey tracey bells as a copyvio before I realised that you were just copying from your own website. As someone who likes to see articles about England here, I hate to have to stomp on your first two contributions, but ...

I always say that it is an insult to Wikipedia to simply copy and paste - we expect people to take time to prepare articles in proper Wiki style. But more importantly, an article about a Ring o' Bells (a pub in the town where I grew up) is just too detailed for Wikipedia - can you find any precedent? We can test this by submitting your Lustleigh bells article to articles for deletion but I suggest you let both articles get deleted. And it is certainly getting too detailed to talk about the bells of Bovey Tracey before we have proper details about the church!

Actually is Lustleigh bells a new article? Google could not find it. But same thing applies, I think it belongs on your website rather than here.

Mind you, is it a coincidence that only the other day a Lustleigh May Day article popped up? I felt that was also marginal but decided that it was just suitable for Wikipedia - after I had chopped out all the names.

Now for the positive bit. Do please add links to your website in every relevant article - I have done Bovey Tracey - right after the link to my website!

Re your website: I could not find anywhere a mention of the dedication of Bovey Tracey church - we always like to see that. http://www.rds.brown.ukgateway.net/page5.html has links to page6 and page3 respectively - is that what you meant? (Personally, I go for several pics to a page rather than one pic per page.)

Anyway, welcome. Do please contribute - if people accept your edits or improve on them, then you will know you are working at the right level. -- RHaworth 09:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)