User talk:Tebersold

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West Rock Ridge State Park
Apologies; I know that you put a lot of work into West Rock Ridge State Park, but you went waaaay overboard. The problem is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a hiking or park guidebook. See the policy NOTGUIDE for details. Essentially, the article should include basic, not highly detailed, information on park services, parking, fishing, trails, etc. Your detail, while thoughtful, far exceeded that. I pared it down significantly. Again, apologies, but your edits created something that goes far beyond what Wikipedia was intended for. ..and, essentially, run agains Wikipedia policy. If you're interested in doing this kind of writing, there are a number of websites that encourage these kinds of contributions, such as Peakbagger.com and many others. That might be the route to go. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 01:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Alternately, if you're looking to work on articles on natural landscape features in that area, and are okay sticking to NOTGUIDE, I can suggest a number of articles that could be improved or created. Be glad to help in any way I can. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 01:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Email from user & response to user
Received the following email from you:

"The reason I sent the email was because I did not see a specific link to adding a comment.

Anyway, I had some more time to think about this whole thing as I hiked at West Rock today.

I find it very irritating and completely baffling that someone would be bothered enough by the West Rock page that they would go out of their way to change what was very factual and informative. The page now bears two warnings from Wikipedia because all the references and links have been deleted.

As a result of all this, I doubt I will waste my time doing any work on Wikipedia, since someone can too easily wipe out whatever I may do."


 * My response-- The link to edit the page is at the top of the talk page; click on the "New Section" tab and insert your content just like you did when editing the article. It's as simple as that.


 * Editing Wikipedia can be very rewarding but it's easy to become frustrated with Wikipedia when you haven't familiarized yourself with the fundamental rules/guidelines for use and don't clearly understand how it works/ what is appropriate content and what is inappropriate. Everything has a form and purpose--qualities that belong to a thing and qualities that do not belong to it. I'm sorry that you spent so much time working on something only to see it removed.


 * If you do change your mind and decide to edit again, feel free to contact me; I'll be glad to give you specific feedback on my reasons for removing the material and the associated Wikipedia guidelines of use. But please do not contact me via email--I prefer to keep Wikipedia talk on my Wikipedia talk page where it is viisble to the entire Wikipedia community. Private email is not the way to go.


 * Although I do not want to discourage you from using Wikipedia, it seems your editing inclinations are leaning toward creating guidebook material. There are a number of web content providors out there, such as trails.com, summitpost, etc. that encourage such contributions. In a nutshell, Wikipedia is something different--it's a community edited encyclopedia, not a detailed recreational guide. Best,--Pgagnon999 (talk) 03:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S., no actual references were deleted; tags at the top of the article were placed by myself because the article still needs references and significant cleanup for style and encyclopedic language--Pgagnon999 (talk) 05:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)