User talk:Eritchey

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Your submission at Articles for creation: User:Eritchey/sandbox (February 14)

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The Ukulele Dude - Aggie80 (talk) 20:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC Roger Craig Vogel was accepted

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78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 20:43, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Toccata quarta (talk) 14:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In one of your recent edits, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. Toccata quarta (talk) 14:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Toccata Quartet:

Thank you for your thoughts.

I agree that there are more citations than I think would be necessary, but I am reluctant to change anything. The article is the way it is due to other previous suggestions.

Basically this article is a translation and improvement of the Dutch article on Vogel:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_C._Vogel

I added a few judicious citations and updated the material and submitted it. The article was rejected because the reviewer didn't think that there were sufficient different sources to prove Vogel's notability. Obviously the Dutch article would NEVER have been accepted.

So I added more different sources to justify different points and this resulted in a source or two being repeated in the citations.

After the article was accepted, it was immediately tagged for not having good web citation formats (even though I used formats that were in other accepted articles as models), not citing works to support the discography (I thought that the record company and CD number would have been sufficient), and because it was an orphan. So I added links and the other citations.

Here's part of the correspondence:

@Eritchey: hey! Sorry for taking a couple of days to respond - work has been hectic. So, the Turabian styling is fine - it's more the links to external websites that are a bit 'bare'. I recommend using the 'cite web' template to format those, which you can find by hitting the button in the editing toolbar that looks like {{ }}. That way you can include things like retrieval date, publisher and author for those, too. There's no requirement that inline citations be to websites (at least, I hope not. I normally use books or journal articles) - the problem is the number of inline citations. The discography section, for example, doesn't have any referencing. Other than that, it's a lovely article - I'm happy to remove the existing tags if you can reference the discography/works sections and format the links to websites. If you want, I'm happy to format those links myself :). Ironholds (talk) 16:24, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Ironholds: Thank you for your kind encouragement and the help! I think that I've made the changes in the inline web citations that you thought would be good. I didn't always use the CD recording company's home page because sometimes the track listing was not available with the first click. But all of them support the statements in the articles. I must confess that I find the html language difficult to work with, so if there is some little stylistic thing that I have failed to do and you want to fix it, please feel free. Or let me know how and I can do it myself. I'll look forward to your thoughts. Thanks again for your help. Sincerely, Eritchey (talk) 19:32, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

@Eritchey: much better! I've removed the tags from the top of the article; thank you for all of your hard work :). Ironholds (talk) 18:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

So at this point I'm beginning to think that no matter what is done someone will object, and I've already put in MUCH more time that I had planned.

I do value your thoughts, but I'm afraid if I make any changes there will be more objections due to those changes.

It's my understanding that any Wikipedia member may edit an article, and you have my permission to correct the things that you believe can and should be improved.

Thank you for your thoughts.

Sincerely

Eritchey (talk) 18:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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