User talk:Thbestforever

Leonardo da Vinci
Thbestforever, thank you for attempting to improve our article. But... I really want you to think about this... On the web there are dozens of articles about Leonardo da Vinci by lots and lots of students, some good, and some not so good. Should we really copy every single good article and tack it on the end of the Wikipedia page?

If we do that, does it mean that I can copy the whole of my library and paste that in, too? The answer in both cases is No! The material that you copied belongs to Sarah Pestieau of Stanford University. It is copyright material. We can quote Sarah's ideas or a few sentences but we must acknowledge the source.

The wikipedia page on Leonardo is not about different approaches to studying him or different modern theories about him. It is an article which tries to deal with a great deal of factual infomation in a short space. We can't make the article enormously long. In fact, when you added that information, you would have got a warning that said the article was already over the desired length.

Leonardo was not just an anatomist. He is (and always has been) most famous as a painter. On that page there are sections on his anatomy and science and other aspects of his work, as well as his biography. There is simply no room for a very long discussion about just one of the things that he did.

If you have ideas, or questions or you have found a really useful article about Leonardo, (or any other major topic) then it's a good idea to put your idea on the discussion page. Then, if there are experts on the topic, they will look at the idea and comment on it. I watch that page nearly every day.

If you want to actively edit articles, then look for article that are short and have a banner that says "stub". Those articles need active improvement. With an article that is very good already, almost everything that you do will get deleted immediately.

--Amandajm 08:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)