User talk:SpringSummerAutumn

Suggest reading
Please take the time to understand WP:SPAM, WP:COI, Fair Use and you may also find some assistance in referring to WP:MOS. Also many of the aources you are referring to raise concerns of Reliability advertorials and directories are not reliable sourcesGnangarra 13:37, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and congratulations on actually taking the above to heart and modifying your contributions. Sadly, we have many new contributors come along whose only purpose here is to promote themselves or their product or service, and it is exceedingly rare for such users to turn over a new leaf and actually take an interest in writing a great encyclopedia. You seem to be an exception to that. Keep up the good work. Hesperian 07:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you have any advice you can give for starting out? Not really. Only not to be shy about asking questions, and don't worry too much about making mistakes. Hesperian 11:18, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Please do not bite the newcomers
Am new to Wikipedia so am slowly sorting through all the many regulations to make things as accurate as possible with aim for NPOV, converting direct copy from books into enclyopedic format (using correct wording and rephrasing what is not dry and enclyopedic enough + making sure things do not violate copywright and don't sound like an advertisment, don't sound like a wine guide, etc...). Am bound to make mistakes although i consider that vital to learning how to become a better editor and contributor. I'm finding one of my major challenges is having to reword things although written in reputable 3rd party sources the language doesn’t always fit guidelines probably. Although have adopted the idea "how would an academic journal present this?"

Please do not bite the newcomers: "Wikipedia articles are improved through the hard work of regular editors, but also through numerous anonymous contributions made by newcomers. Remember: all of us were new editors at Wikipedia once, and in some ways (such as when editing an article on a topic outside our usual scope) even the most experienced among us are still newcomers.

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Making more wikipedian's
"Many people create a new article, only to see it get deleted after an AfD discussion where random Wikipedians try to think up negative things to say about it. For someone who thought they were donating their time to help the project, neither response is particularly encouraging. I’m not saying that we should change our policies or automatically keep everything a newcomer decides to add so we don’t hurt their feelings. But we do need to think more about how to enforce policies without turning valuable newcomers away, how we can educate them instead of alienating them." - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians

Margaret River (wine region)
before any criticism you may have please take into consideration the above. Also note other wine regions already established on wikipedia.
 * Hunter Valley wine country - poor quality lacks references
 * McLaren Vale - notice no references at all
 * Clare Valley - one reference
 * Margaret River, Western Australia - lacked balanced write up + lacked citations. surf region, wine region and region in general all into one although considering Margaret River is a major wine region known internationally have developed seperate page for it.
 * Margaret River (wine region) - text is from cited books and other 3rd party references (using correct wording and rephrasing wording which is not in a dry and enclyopedic format + to not breach copywright). List of wineries gives balanced example of listing all wineries of region which is direct copy from reference instead of listing a few ie: "some varietals have achieved considerable fame: the 'Leeuwin Estate' Art Series Chardonnay for example is one of the finest of this varietal in the world." "In recent years a number of small, independent producers have appeared bearing contemporary labels and brands. Some of these include 'wine by brad', 'Flying Fish' and 'Preveli Wines'."
 * have begun a West Australian wine article (still under construction obviously) see: New South Wales wine, South Australian wine, Victorian wine, Tasmanian wine

All articles I do I aim for NPOV, articles are free of original research with only direct copy straight from 3rd party references with most from books: international wine encyclopaedias/wine atlas. Want to learn how to create a good article. As Australian wine is an area of expertise that I can find sources for it seems the best fit to work on articles that I have an understanding on. In the meantime I am still familiarizing myself with all wikipedia policies to take into consideration.


 * Your phrase "direct copy straight from references wording" makes me somewhat worried. Have you read the WP:COPYVIO policy? Tomas e (talk) 13:02, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Australian wine articles
Hello, nice to see people working on wine-related articles. However, your articles, while referenced, are way too promotional in tone. Look at the first sentence of the Margaret River (wine region), for example: "Margaret River is one of the most immediately recognised wine regions of Australia by both domestic and international audiences." That's not how an encyclopedic entry should start, following WP:NPOV and WP:LEAD! I recommend Wikipedia is not a wine guide for reading! Regards, Tomas e (talk) 12:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Tomas, Thanks for your input and the useful links to guides I will read up more on Wikipedia’s encyclopaedic wording regulations and some of the other guides/regulations. That quote you mentioned was straight out of James Hallidays 2009 The Australian Wine Encylopedia from Hardie Grant Books. Due to quoting the reference in footnotes I don't think copyright will be an issue. Although I have deleted the quote you mentioned and several other wording that i found that was a bit dodgey. If you spot any other wording on the page that you think is out of place feel free to notify me. It’s not my wording but from the books so sometimes need to be looked over and cleared up. Want to be able to contribute although I still am a bit of a newbie and definately have a few things to learn, do you have any key advice for someone starting out? How long have you been contributing with Wikipedia?SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 16:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC) I'm finding one of my major challenges is having to reword things although written in reputable 3rd party sources the language doesn’t always fit guidelines probably.SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 16:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * If it helps, my trick for figuring out wording is "how would an academic journal present this?" It does come out sounding a bit dry, but it generally works. A lot of my stuff is on obscure geographical and political topics so I concede this is probably easier to write about in such a form, although there's the moments where I'm writing and trying not to laugh, such as Mundingburra state by-election, 1996. Orderinchaos 00:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Australian Wine zone
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 * Please refer all comments to that page. - SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 02:22, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

More copyvio?
Hello SpringSummerAutumn, could I ask you to have a second look at all the articles you have created, with the copyvio policy in mind? Looking at articles such as Concours Mondial de Bruxelles and Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine, they contain sentences which look like could very well have been lifted from somewhere else. Tomas e (talk) 13:36, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Australia’s First Families of Wine
Hi and welcome to wikipedia, nice to have someone working on Australian wine!! I have seen you start working on especially australian wine pages, and seen you add lots of text about Australia’s First Families of Wine to multiple pages, I think this is a bit WP:ADS, I have not done anything about it, but now after you added the same to Henschke, I reverted it from there. I do not think that it is resonable to have 9 lines of text talking about this Australia’s First Families of Wine in a small article like that,it is questionable in my opinion if Australia’s First Families of Wine would survive an WP:AFD, but I normally do not list pages that is seams to be truthful and does exists, but we do not need the same text in 10 pages again and again. Please read WP:ADS, WP:POV and generally try to make the pages you update more ensyclopeadic, and not so sales related. --Stefan talk 08:18, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, also see on how you can use the ref name to not need to copy the links so many times. Makes it much easier to read the text also. Also, you do not normally need that many ref links, especially not on a page like that. --Stefan talk 09:31, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I will edit Australia’s First Families of Wine if you wish, but it means that I will take away lots of the text. --Stefan talk 09:44, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No editing is not removing content, but the page as it is now have to much text, that is not in line with WP:POV and WP:ADS. It reads like a newspaper or a ad, not like a encyclopedia. I tried to read it but it was hard to rewrite since I do not have the first 2 sources, and the online ones did not say much. --Stefan talk 09:58, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done some updates now, not sure if I messed up the lead with respect to the references, check and see if you think it is OK and revert what you do not agree with. The Mission statement is still not very good, it is very hard to see what is a quote and what is not. --Stefan talk 10:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * See WP:TPO, you should never revert a none vandal remark like that on a talk page, revert your revert and write what you said in the comment as a answer instead. --Stefan talk 11:29, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure about if there is a rule, think it is OK to take it away now. --Stefan talk 11:37, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Another copyvio problem
See Talk:West Australian wine. –Moondyne 14:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Moondyne, I intentionally transferred several parts direct from copy as that was first step without editing as have placed page under construction was planning to reword as second step. I prefer to do the articles editing in stages, little by little i find this the easiest way, if needed i have copyied the source to my sandbox to reword in there when i have the time so if it's an issue can be deleted, although due to this being a editing community then it won't be free for others to reword and tidy up but if it remains still listed as under construction it is available for others to tidy up now that i have brought it available to wikipedia. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 06:57, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

And another ...
Great Southern (wine region). At least some of it is copied word for word from. The style of the rest suggests further unmodified plagiarism. I think the best approach with these is that we delete and start all over again. What do you think? –Moondyne 14:10, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Have placed article as under construction again, i have copied source to my sandbox if nessisary to delete, although best idea is to reword now it is available for all to edit for public view. SpringSummerAutumn (talk) 07:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * SpringSummerAutumn I am certain your intentions are honourable and you have acted in good faith. However copyright is a very serious issue and placing an underconstruction tag on it now after its been in the article space for several weeks only obfuscates the problem.  Although WP is a collaborative project you cannot count on others to sort this out for you by identifying what is and isn't plagiarised text and then rewriting on your behalf.  Its your responsibility to ensure that only "free" text is published in the first instance. To avoid these issues I strongly suggest you develop the articles more fully in your sandbox or a separate user subpage before publishing.  Ensure any copy-pasted text has been completely removed before doing so&mdash;you must use your own words, not those of another writer.  I've tagged them both for speedy deletion.  If you need to recover any parts contact the deleting admin.  –Moondyne 12:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Australian wine lists
Hi, I noticed you were quite active on the Aussie wine articles and I guess you're probably aware of the recent AfD that included List of wineries in the Barossa Valley. Discussion of the best way to present wineries in list format is ongoing at WT:WikiProject Wine and a recent proposal there suggests merging all wineries lists into outline-style structured lists by country, starting with Australia. Hey, it's a cool place to start! Some early input would be great while we're in formative stages. Thanks. mikaultalk 21:31, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

re Template:Wines‎‎
Hi SpringSummerAutumn. I'm guessing you may have removed your comment on Template talk:Wines‎‎ because you found the answer to the question, but just to be sure, the 'autocollapse' function will show a template in its expanded form when it is alone, and be collapsed if there is an adjacent template. Cheers, M URGH   disc.  11:38, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi
You might not realise but your sandboxes have items with fully operational categories - when creating or improving articles it is usually better to disengage the brackets while you are tinkering in your own space - viz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wine_regions_of_Western_Australia - cheers SatuSuro 07:46, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Its up to you - some people dont seem to bother to see their sub pages lying around in category space - I prefer not when I am creating - no big deal really - but thought i should let you know SatuSuro 07:58, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * An even better way is to simply prefix the category with a colon and add square brackets, as in  . This yields an internal (and uncategorised) link as Category:Wine regions of Western Australia.  –Moondyne 08:20, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

"Minor" edits
Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Tomas e (talk) 12:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Marchand and burch
The listing "The 1996 vintage of the same wine was ranked as number 16 in the Wine Spectator’s list of the World’s top 100 wines" has been documented in several books and not just one article and i thought would be worthy of inclusion refering to Valid criteria for wine notability: Notability (wine topics):"Being the subject of multiple articles or profiles in reliable independent secondary sources such as Wine Spectator indicates notable". notablility wine Notability (wine topics): "Being described in detail by an internationally-influential wine critic such as Robert Parker or wine magazine such as Decanter." had listed several different references from newspapers, well known wine writers et al that mention robert parkers write up of wine. as being a significant event.

Important Wine Project discussion needs input!
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Hi
I think the over-cat and over link issues which I edited at the great southern article seemed to be the only issues of recent - otherwise - keep up the good work! SatuSuro 04:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No probs - just make sure you keep up on the WP:RS and keep it concise! cheers SatuSuro 05:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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