User talk:Simpo207

Borchgrevink
Thank you for your email. Just a quick note on communication, in future you don't need to email people to ask them questions, you can either leave a message on the article talk page (On the Borchgrevink article, you'll see the link "Talk" above the title "Carsten Borchgrevink". That's one place to discuss changes). The other is in someone's talk page. On the article history (along the same line as the "Talk" link) you'll see "History", showing all the edits made on the page. Next to my name in the list of editors, you'll see the link to my talk page. As I've started a thread here, you can reply to me below if you have any questions or further comments.

Now, onto the main point. I don't doubt you are correct to say he gave a talk in Ipswich. But the question is whether that's really encyclopaedic information or not. I'm sure he gave hundreds of talks all over the place, but we don't mention them because they're just not notable. As this is an encyclopaedia article, it needs to summarise the subject, not act as a repository for every piece of information. The information about the Ipswich meeting doesn't help explain anything about him. Ditto the tiny piece of information about the society his father in law belonged to. A reader's understanding of the subject isn't increased with the information. I hope that explains my rationale a little better than the edit summaries did. Thanks. - SchroCat (talk) 21:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi SchroCat.
 * I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but thanks for the considered reply. It is always nice to get a civil answer to things that don't immediately add up, as it were. I'll have to go along with your views, though I feel that the information, whilst minor I agree, might have been useful or interesting to someone, for example someone researching Borchgrevink's family. I guess I just don't like to see information wasted. Sometimes the tiniest scrap is what joins other things together.
 * I've contributed many minor pieces of information to Wikipedia over the years, as I read a lot of non-fiction and reference books. I've never checked the pages later to see if they were still there. It was just that you were so fast that when I went back to the page to see if it had worked, it had already gone so I thought the edit hadn't worked for some reason.
 * I'm not going to get embroiled in the minutiae of how Wikipedia works as I have more interesting things to do, but thanks again for the response.
 * Kind regards,
 * John Simpo207 (talk) 08:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi John, I hope you don't mind but I've moved your response to underneath my comment (which is where it's supposed to go), and indented each new paragrapgh using a colon. This is how its normally done, so people are used to following conversations this way.
 * If there was some connection between the Ipswich meeting and some later event, or that it was a particlarly good example of something that was happening frequently, then it may be a good addition, but as it is, it sits there with no context and doesn't add understanding to the overall picture of Borchgrevink. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 09:07, 1 April 2020 (UTC)