User talk:Westwood lad

This is the user talk page for Westwood-lad, who writes on the Moravian Church

Greetings...[edit]

...and welcome.

It's good to have around someone else with an interest in the church. Apart from the occasional anonymous tinkering there would seem to be just the two of us (and my activity has been minimal of late).

You appear to know/be-finding your way around just fine but if you need help with anything just ask.

-Arb. (talk) 18:59, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Arb[edit]

Many thanks for your words of welcome. I'm definitely finding my way around still as a contributor! Sorry for writing direct to your template initially - at least I worked out how to put it right. Yes, I'm a born and bred Moravian in the UK - are you in the States? - with an interest in our theological history in particular. If I get stuck trying to do things in Wikipedia, which is highly likely, I'll definitely call on you for advice! I have vague plans to write summaries of some of the key books by Comenius, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg as I have access to the 17th C and 18th C texts. Westwood lad (talk) 20:19, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

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Re: Westwood Moravian Church etc[edit]

Hello there Westwood lad, and thank you for the contact! I hope all is well and your enjoying yourself at Wikipedia. I'm a user from Shaw and Crompton and your additions have flashed up on my watchlist of interest.

With regards to Westwood Moravian Church, to avoid any complications (such as deletion your hard work), the content needs to be attributed to a reliable, published source. Something important to maintaining Wikipedia's reputation is its policy on verification:

The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed.
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I'm quite sure you're basing your additions on some kind of published reference material. Could you share with the community what reference this is in the article? If you look at a page like Royton, you will notice it has references throughout, complete with page numbers for books. We really need to mimic this for the Westwood Moravian Church page.

In addition to a couple of years experience here, I'm an administrator, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks and good luck, --Jza84 | Talk 20:31, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! You're doing great for such a new contributor! I've applied a few of the more "advanced" features avaliable to Wikipedia to the article. Hopefully that gives it a much more consistent feel with other Wikipedia articles.

We have an inhouse team of contributors, not unlike yourself, from our region at the Greater Manchester WikiProject. I have alerted them of this new article, but feel free to have a look at that page yourself too. You may even want to join us? --Jza84 | Talk 22:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:50card m.jpg[edit]

Hello again,

I've rotated Image:50card m.jpg 3º clockwise and hope you agree that it's an improvement. Unfortunately, going from jpg to jpg is guaranteed to degrade an image slightly so if you have an original in a non-lossy format it would be better if you would remake the change from that. -Arb. (talk) 02:34, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Arb - it looks good to me. I'm afraid I don't know what a Lossy is - all I can say is that I scanned a printed photo that I've had for years.Westwood lad (talk) 10:32, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ping![edit]

Hello again,

A respected user who contributes articles about churches in the North West has written some suggestions for the article at Talk:Westwood Moravian Church. I hope they are helpful, --Jza84 | Talk 19:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jza84 - thanks for this - I've seen Peter's comments and replied to them - I agree with his suggestions and will do my bit to implement them as soon as I can. Thanks too for the invitation to join your project. I wouldn't mind as long as you understand that work & study mean my contributions will be sporadic. Having written on Westwood Moravian Church, I'd be interested to compile articles on the others in Lancashire - Fairfield, Salem, ? Dunkinfield (not sure whether it's in Greater Manchester), Wheler Street and the Moss Side Society. Otherwise I retain a strong interest in Oldham in general and in Platt Brothers Ltd though there isn't much already published on Platts as far as I can see to form a basis for a Wikipedia article

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