Jsaltz

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Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Hi, Jsaltz. I deleted your contribution, but in Wikipedia it is easy to bring it back: another editor brought it back, so no harm was done.

My concern was that each sentence had a reference, but none were listed in a reference section, and that no words or phrases were wikilinked (like this). When I've seen contributions like this in the past, they were often copied verbatim from another source (which would be a copyright violation).

To confirm: all of this writing was your own, right? You didn't copy the sentences out of the sources?

You can respond here, if you like. —hike395 (talk) 03:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I can see you put a lot of work into the contribution. I'm going to start to edit it to make it fit into Wikipedia. I'll explain what I'm going to do first:

• Your phone interviews with rangers, although admirable, qualify as original research, so we have to take that part out.
• You don't need to repeat the same reference over and over again, we can refer to the citations by name
• We need to wikilink terms in your new material using this.

—hike395 (talk) 04:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Jsaltz; nice contribution and welcome. Walter Siegmund (talk) 04:32, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Citation to Dr. Gold's website

Jsaltz: Citing to lecture notes is in a grey zone (see our guideline on self-published source). It's probably OK, especially if you eventually replace it with a citation to one of Dr. Gold's books or papers. —hike395 (talk) 20:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Vertebrates of the ALW

Hi, Jsaltz: If your list is a paragraph or so, I would add it to Alpine Lakes Wilderness, but if it is longer, I would add it to Ecology of the North Cascades (which, as you can see, I created from your contribution). —hike395 (talk) 04:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

If it is a very long list, but specific to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, you can create a new article called List of vertebrates in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to store it, and then wikilink to that article from the ALW article. You can read about the formatting of such a list article at WP:STAND.

If you can save your list as HTML, with the italics stored <i>like this</i>, then you can copy and paste that into a WP article and it will work. I'm not sure what off-line editor you are using. —hike395 (talk) 04:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)