ST2526

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Hi ST2526, I tried to reply to your email directly, but your mailbox is full, and it bounced. What follows is what I tried to sent via email.

I'll go ahead and reply via email, but these sorts of conversations are generally held on Wikipedia talk pages.

You've added some interesting information to the article. Thank you for your work!

I have just a few small criticisms:

• A rule of the Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS) is that section headers take sentence case. That is, where you have a section titled, "Early History", it should be "Early history". I'm not sure about "Information Age" - it seems that may be a proper noun phrase, but then in the text you have it as "information age" - check on that, and be consistent.

• Early history - "Information overload has been documented throughout periods where advances in technology have increased a production of information. As early as the 3rd or 4th century BC, people regarded information overload with disapproval." Can you cite this? Wikipedia has a rule against "original research". (See WP:OR.) While in a conventional paper for school, you are encouraged to look at the information in the sources and come to novel conclusions, that is actually prohibited on Wikipedia, and these two sentences sound strongly to me of that. You need either to cite these pieces of information themselves, or I think you could tweak it without too much difficulty to avoid the problem. In the next section, you use the phrase "information proliferation". I think if you substituted that phrase where you here have "information overload", it reduces, and perhaps eliminates the issue.

• Rennaissance - "Scholars complained about the abundance of information for a variety of reasons..." this is too vague. What were some of those reasons?

I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me with follow-up questions! I'll watch the page for a while to see your progress on it. I hope you decide to continue as a Wikipedian after your assignment is over.

Regards, LadyofShalott 00:59, 29 October 2011 (UTC)