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Philemon Ministries
editWelcome to Wikipedia! I am a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. While patrolling new articles, I reviewed the article that you created on Philemon Ministries. Due to BLP issues, I have removed images that present residents and graduates of the Philemon Ministries program. I have also brought the article into compliance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I was also able to reformat citations and section headings appropriately. Inappropriate citations and external links include YouTube, promotional, and those linked to charitable giving or donations websites. "See also" sections are also not appropriate to link when used in the prose. If you have questions regarding these edits, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Cind.amuse 15:06, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
February 2011
editWelcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Philemon Ministries has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwF-Wv3Jj1U, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVCJXo5Rn7g&feature=player_embedded. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
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Just checking in...
editHi! Just wanted to check in with you and see how things are going. Remember, if you run across anything you don't understand, or possibly have questions or concerns about participating in editing articles on Wikipedia, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Cind.amuse 15:17, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Use of citations
editHi, thank you for editing Street pastors and removing some incorrect material along with the POV tag. However, I am not sure whether all your edits are making objective use of the cited sources; we need to be careful not to add our own knowledge/opinions, see WP:NOR. I am particularly concerned about the implication that all of Street Pastors' claimed reductions in crime statistics (some of which seem to be far-fetched or unsustainable) are backed by official figures. Also, you removed something here, perhaps untypical, which was nevertheless backed by the BBC Sunderland citation.
Moreover, you stated three times that the aim is "providing a presence", but I could not find this phrase in any of the existing citations; if you are referring to other sources, please cite them. I would be pleased to help with formatting citations if this is unfamiliar to you. – Fayenatic (talk) 14:51, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- -Thanks for the useful advice. I shall attempt to re-edit and take into account your helpful comments. From the cited article, the implications seems to be that the claimed drop in crime figures come from the local police themselves. Not sure what the issue is with this? One concern I do have, however, is that there is an anonymous user who has inserted a section on Police which does seem to contradict the materials already cited in the article, and is lacking any evidence itself. Christianinthelaw (talk) 16:41, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, I've tidied up your new citations. WP:CHEAT covers the basics for formatting links, but you may see that for some I have used the optional citation templates. If you want to try these, e.g. "cite news", the easiest way is to click on "cite" at the top of the editing window, and then select from the "Templates" dropdown menu at the top left. A form pops up, and you simply fill in whichever fields are relevant. When these features work, they work well!
- As for the crime figures that I was worried about: I think that when I created the article, there was something on the streetpastors website which was a bit hard to believe, so I didn't use it as a citation; but I cannot find it now—maybe it has been removed. Now that there are multiple citations in the article quoting official sources, it would probably be better to re-write and simplify that paragraph, taking out the reference to Ascension Trust, e.g. "Official police figures have recorded reductions in crime in areas where the Street Pastors initiatives have been operating." I'll leave it to you. – Fayenatic (talk) 19:21, 30 November 2011 (UTC)