User talk:Renard40

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! I would like to thank you for you efforts at The David Pakman Show. However, I have reverted them for a few different reasons: first of all you removed cited content with no apparent reason. It would be good to at least explain such changes. Were they inaccurate, out of date, or do you simply think that others would be more useful? You also added a number of uncited statements, for example that the show is known "for its level of research into program topics and for Pakman’s unflappable interviewing style." Such assertions should be attributed clearly to a specific third party source. In addition, you added a number of links to news reports about the show in a list format; this is usually inappropriate, as such lists will rapidly grown too large to be useful to a general audience. If something interesting is said in those news reports it should be incorporated into the text of the article and used as the citation.

I apologize for reverting your good faith, and hard work, but unfortunately the bulk of the additions do not conform with usual wiki standards. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Best, Peregrine981 (talk) 20:33, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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Please help me with...The reversal of the content I added to The David Pakman Show page.

I will try to answer some of the question lead in the message I rec'd.

"first of all you removed cited content with no apparent reason. It would be good to at least explain such changes. Were they inaccurate, out of date, or do you simply think that others would be more useful?"

Yes, the cited content was removed when the link to it proved out of date. I thought I was helping to remove dead links and I didn't know that their removal should be sited.

"You also added a number of uncited statements, for example that the show is known "for its level of research into program topics and for Pakman’s unflappable interviewing style." Such assertions should be attributed clearly to a specific third party source."

With all due respect, I think this was the only instance where I stated my opinion instead of a publically quoted comments which I'd be happy to provide.

"In addition, you added a number of links to news reports about the show in a list format; this is usually inappropriate, as such lists will rapidly grown too large to be useful to a general audience. If something interesting is said in those news reports it should be incorporated into the text of the article and used as the citation."

Every instance I sighted was an instance where the host of the program was being interviewed on topics that directly pertained to the topics of the Pakman show. If you would like me to pull the topic of the interview and cite that alongside the citation I'd be happy to do that. If the length of the list is troubling I can try to shorten it.

If you provide the instances that fall outside the rules I will be more than happy to change them to conform or delete them all together.

Renard40 Renard40 (talk) 01:12, 8 June 2015 (UTC)