User talk:Simon Mack

Welcome
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---Demiurge1000 Simon Mack, good luck, and have fun. Demiurge1000 (talk) 10:52, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

A couple of suggestions
Hi Simon, I have a couple of suggestions about editing.

First of all, in articles, we don't capitalise initial letters of words unless they start a sentence or are a proper noun (like someone's name). So for example, This Sentence Is Incorrectly Capitalised but This sentence is correctly capitalised.

Secondly, Wikipedia requires information to be verifiable in a reliable published source; not just something that the editor making the change knows to be true from personal experience. (There's more information about this at Verifiability, which is a Wikipedia policy.) I noticed you used "I know this is True as I was there at the Time" to explain your addition to the Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster article. Normally this isn't good enough as a reference, especially for material that might be challenged. Citing an edition of the school magazine as a reference would be better, but the best way would be to cite a local newspaper that mentioned the visit. Newspaper coverage of such a major event would definitely exist, even if it might be very difficult to find.

Hope this helps. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:04, 28 August 2011 (UTC)