User talk:Tiffanyfox

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Thomas A. DeFanti
Sorry, but I removed the edit you made to the Thomas A. DeFanti article, because the article has been wikified according to a standard you removed with this edit. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:53, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is the first time I've ever made an edit to Wikipedia. I've read the guidelines, so I have no why you removed my changes to Thomas A. DeFanti. What standard are you referring to? What am I doing wrong? Tiffanyfox (talk) 22:58, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

If you take a look at the other biographical articles in this template you will see they all have a same structure.

Jacques Bertin· Stuart Card· Thomas A. DeFanti· Michael Friendly· Nigel Holmes· Alan MacEachren· Jock D. Mackinlay· Michael Maltz· Bruce H. McCormick· Charles Joseph Minard· Otto Neurath· William Playfair· Clifford A. Pickover· Arthur H. Robinson· Lawrence J. Rosenblum· Adolphe Quetelet· George G. Robertson· Ben Shneiderman· Edward Tufte

And that is what the standard structure I am refering to. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The current Wikipedia page about Thomas DeFanti is extremely outdated. Mr. DeFanti provided me with the information necessary to update the page, and I am eager to do so according to the correct standards. As far as I can see, the only structural problem with my edits is that I combined "biography" and "work." Would separating those sections be a sufficient? If not, please be more specific about the type of structure you are looking for. Thank you. Tiffanyfox (talk) 23:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Indeed that was one of the things, but you made more changes in the normal Wikipedia structure: The first sentence, altering the chronology, adding a complete list of recognitions...etc, ect. It seemed to me you had implemented a standard university homepage lay out. This was/is the lay out I see all the time, when I start writing an other biography.


 * If you want to update the data, use the same format. Alter any description you like, you can add new job descriptions, you can add new descriptions of work... It only has to comply with Wikipedia rules about citing sources, see also No original research. Good luck. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:37, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello Marcel. I had two interns attempt to post revised changes to Thomas A. DeFanti but their changes were never posted. Do you see a record of them trying to make the changes, and if so, was there some reason that they were not made? Tiffanyfox (talk) 15:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I am not sure what you mean. Every article has a record of it's changes, which you can find if you push the top history tab. Now I can't see any changes in the Thomas A. DeFanti, see here, nor in your user contributions, see here. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2009 (UTC)