User talk:DpEpsilon
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GreetingsThanks for taking the time to write - I’m all for making wikipedia the best it can possibly be, so I appreciate your feedback.
Firatly though; I’m relatively new to editing wikipedia entries, so I’m not sure that this is the best way to reply to your message. If there is a better way, please let me know.
You referred to the fact that my edits of the ‘Steve Dickson’ page doesn’t follow wikipedia’s Manual of Style. I’m happy to learn about that, but a glance at the MOS page looks hugely detailed amd overwhelming. I’m not sure exactly which of those many many parameters you had in mind when you say I should pay more attention to the MOS. I would really appreciate you being more specific, or even updating the page in question itself so I can see from example what you mean.
Or perhaps you mean I’ve fallen prey to ‘recentism’...
“Recentism is a phenomenon on Wikipedia where an article has an inflated or imbalanced focus on recent events. It is writing without an aim toward a long-term, historical view. This can result in, among others:▪Articles overburdened with documenting controversy as it happens.”
In that case, I see what you mean. Does that mean the whole thing should be reduced to a short synopsis of the event, with links to further material, rather than verbatim quotes and so on?
As for ‘using straight quotation marks in articles,’ on my machine, at least, that’s how the quotation marks appear; perhaps I’m missing something?
Thanks again, conspiracyofjoy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conspiracyofjoy (talk • contribs) 11:40, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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on your talk page with any questions and someone will show up to answer them.Thanks for taking the time to reply. Much Appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conspiracyofjoy (talk • contribs) 08:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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