User talk:SApoli

Please read our manual of style - you are creating a lot of articles that will either be deleted or require extensive editing. We aren't here for puff-pieces about polticians. Also please use the surnames of individuals. --Cameron Scott (talk) 09:37, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

"fighting corruption" - we don't care - our remit is to provide a encyclopaedia that is neutral in tone. Let me give you some practical examples of where you should be careful:

1) Always use Surnames (Except in the lede of the article).

2) Avoid puffy language or terms, stick to just the facts.

Take your prose on Shinn:

She moved to South Africa in 1971 to join the Rand Daily Mail, during a time of increasing protest against apartheid, where she found the newsroom a seat-of-the-pants political education.

A more neutral presentation of that information is:

She moved to South Africa in 1971 to join the Rand Daily Mail

Do you see what I am getting at? --Cameron Scott (talk) 09:55, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Sure - in contrast to some of the prose we see here, yours is actually largely fine so I'm not deeply concerned about it. Wikipedia is slightly confusing for the new user in what it requires from it's writing style. --Cameron Scott (talk) 10:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Capitalisation of headings
Hi SApoli,

Thank you for your contributions.

I just wanted to let you know that the Wikipedia style for capitalising headings is to use "sentence case" instead of "title case", e.g.,


 * Important things to know about this subject

not:
 * Important Things to Know About This Subject

This may be unfamiliar to many editors who believe that or have been taught that "title case is the right way to capitalise headings". It isn't the "right way", it is one style. Wikipedia has, for better or worse, chosen to follow a different style, i.e., capitalise the heading the same way you would capitalise any sentence:
 * capitalise the first word,
 * capitalise any proper nouns (people, places, organizations), and
 * begin all other words with lower case letters.

See WP:MSH for more information. Regards, Ground Zero | t 22:29, 3 September 2013 (UTC)