User talk:Wheatonsooner

Edits to Paul Thompson (football)
First off, welcome to Wikipedia! I reverted your edit to the Paul Thompson article. I will try to explain my action as I do not want to scare you off of Wikipedia cause I'd love to get more editors involved on OU articles. I reverted your edit because it did not read like an encylopedic article, it read like a fan site. Whenever you edit Wikipedia, ask yourself, "Does this sound like something I would read in an encyclopedia?" In this case, it did not. Also, Wikipedia does not allow original research so when you say, "It's players like him that make Oklahoma one of the greatest football progams in the history of college football," that could be construed at original research. It could also be interpreted as academic boosterism, something else we want to avoid. Nobody ever said writing an encyclopedia would be easy. When contributing to articles, it is best to document your sources (which must be verifiable. Please read the University of Oklahoma article. It is the highest rated OU-related article. You can see that many sentences are cited and you can get a feel of the tone of the article. I've posted a welcome banner to the top of this page so feel free to read through some of those links. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my talk page. Also, you can ask questions at the help desk. And, of course, please check out the University of Oklahoma WikiProject.↔NMajdan &bull;talk 19:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)