Talk:Tomichi Creek

Expanding article

July 18, this article was expanded. Lead information came from a map on the BLM Colorado website. Resolution of the map is below par for use on this page, plus, I don't know how to check copyright and usage of that particular image. It being on gov website, owner of image and other particulars will be investigated. Suggestions/help would be appreciated. The words and style of this lead come from the way the map was read. The BLM site also has an article about the drainages of Tomichi and Cochetopa creeks. These words and style were paraphrased and posted to expand the article further. The section Coleman easement was paraphrased from both the BLM site and the Google book referenced. After saving the expanded article Tomichi, research on policy and guidelines lead to what constitutes a good article in which the criteria for fail presented the close paraphrasing section. Further research discloses examples of proper techniques of notating key elements, explanation of those key elements to yourself, leaving the project for a certain amount of time and returning to reword the key elements. Suggestions to come back to the project several times until all aspects of the original source wording and style have been eliminated and have become original to the efforts of editing/creating the Wikipedia article. This seems to fall into the category of learn as you go and utilizing failure to its good by recreating the article using techniques that make for quality reliable articles that are useful to all readers of that particular article. Upon further considerations of this, my first attempt to expand an article, perhaps a move to my userspace would be in order until an acceptable rendition is achieved.

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 O = M _C ⁴  15:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Categories

Questions remain about the category tags. The assessment of articles under the stub class, what constitutes a stub article and the removal of stub templates when the articles have been expanded. Categories are intimidating and new editors (or those not familiar with policies or guidelines respecting categories) are not aware of benifits involving the removal of such tags and the placement of proper tags for categorization. Request information and direction to resources that address this issue of improving Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 O = M _C ⁴  16:08, 19 July 2012 (UTC)