User talk:Waterboyej

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Office hours
Hi Waterboyej -

Please stop by one of my office hours this weeek. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 18:25, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Water resource management and Water Efficiency
You have made some very significant edits to Water resource management and Water efficiency. Both edits appear to be using more or less the same material. This is not a good idea. Wikipedia deprecates material duplicated across articles. Please carefully consider where your material best fits and use it there once only. A more significant issue if the style of your edits. Wikipedia asks for an encyclopaedic style which is most commonly written in the third person. Much of your work is written in the first person. Sentences such as " A person should be sure to buy a water efficient model when buying a new machine." is absolutely not written in an encyclopaedic style. A better phrasing might be "Education of consumers about the benefits of water efficient washing machines" might be better (but still not very good!) I have left your most recent edit as it is, but it would be great if you could improve it before somebody else deletes it. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 13:12, 1 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I should also have said that the article before your edit was also very poor, so that if you are able to improve it, that would be great. I also note that some of the things I complained about above may have been there before your edit - in which case I unreservedly apologise - but that doesn't mean that I also approve of your edit! Please don't be put off. You have chosen an article which has great scope for improvement so you have the opportunity to make a significant difference. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 21:21, 2 May 2014 (UTC)