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A few tips
editHey, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your edits on Alcibiades and thought I'd point you to a few policies that might help you out in the future. One is our Neutral point of view policy; we always try to write in a neutral, non-judgemental tone that just presents the facts and describes any important opinions about them, letting the reader make his own judgements. Another is the guideline on how to cite sources. It's great that your citing your sources, but they'll be a lot easier for other people to deal with and use if you use one of the formats described on that page.
It looks like you're doing great work, so keep it up! --RobthTalk 21:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hey, I got your note--my talk page was indeed the correct place to put it. As far as the Alcibiades article, all articles here are works in progress, so don't worry too much if it isn't in final form right away. If you're going to be making substantial changes to an article and don't want to have the intermediate forms appear on the article page, you can create a personal sandbox (at, for instance, User:Dmcheatw/sandbox; I have mine at User:Robth/sandbox). But Alcibiades is okay for now, and it's good that it's being expanded.
- A couple of other things you might find useful: when signing your posts on talk pages, instead of typing out your name you can just type ~~~~, which will then expand out to "Dmcheatw 21:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)" when you save the page. Also, when citing an ancient author like Thucydides or Plutarch, since so many modern translations exist, its usually better to cite the paragraph and line number (e.g. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 1.53); this makes it possible to find the passage referred to in any edition, rather than just the specific text that the page number came from.
- Let me know if you need any help. --RobthTalk 21:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Alcibiades as a GA nominee
editIf you check the talk page of Alcibiades, you'll see that it is nominated for GA. A fellow Wikipedian made the nomination, after I listed the article within the scope of teo Wikiprojects (Biography and Military).
Personally, I wouldn't nominate the article. I think there is still a lot of work to be done. And I prefer to go straight for FA than GA, when an article seems ready. Nonetheless, since the nomination is done, I think we should give it a shot. And we'll have to co-operate to pass the article.
The problem is I'll be missing for a week. Hence, it would be nice to keep an eye on the GA candidacy page and watch how it is going. You may even have to work on your own, if I'm not back on time. Anyway ... I felt I had to inform you about all these things.--Yannismarou 08:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations
editFirst of all, are you still with Wikipedia? I don't see you around!
If you still are around here, you may have seen that Alcibiades is a GA. I expected a much more difficult procedure, but the article is obviously already very-well written. Since you did most of the article's editing, you should be very happy.
The user who passed the article, strongly recommends to push it for Featured Article. Indeed, I intend to go for FA, after I improve some more things (references, a few things left concerning neutrality and content) and after I go for one or more peer-reviews. But, I want to know if I can count you. What I mean:
- I'm not a native English speaker. So if I nominate the article for FAC I'll need your support. You are a native speaker of English and, most importantly, your prose is excellent. You're really good in editing an article with satisfactory flow.
- Some references need improvement. Especially, those where the exact number of the paragraph of Tucydides or Plutarch is now missing. We just have the page number from a print edition of yours. Can you help with that?
- Do you have any access to Walter Ellis' book Alcibiades?
- Most importantly, you've written most of the article and you have a good knowledge of it.
I had already a success with Pericles and I think that, if we push together this procedure and have a good level of co-operation, we have a chance to succeed in making Alcibiades FA. What do you think?--Yannismarou 14:41, 4 September 2006 (UTC)