Colin 68dots

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Post-war prefab houses

This is my first time of updating a Wikipedia entry and am at a loss of how to continue......I have read the rules and the specific articles that you directed me to, but still do not know how to proceed.

I notice that you are one of the top 400 people who update Wikipedia and would therefore appreciate your guidance, rather than just undo your removal again.

I lived in the prefabs on Wanstead flats from 1947-1959, so the topic is of particular interest to me.

Your original article is extremely good at describing the prefabs themselves and their history, but makes no reference to the social history for the people who lived there which is what I am trying to add to this article, referencing studies performed and published by other sources (including an existing Wikipedia reference to the Young and Willmott study in 1957).

What am I missing here to get this aspect added to your original article........??

By the way.......I have some photos, if you are interested, of the prefabs we lived in and have no idea what model of prefab they are........ is there some way I can send them to you, for you to identify what model they are.......??

Help with this would be much appreciated........

Thankyou.......Colin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colin 68dots (talk • contribs) 09:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Colin, I hope that this finds you well! Lets see if I can help you out and educate you here! First things first, read the welcome notes that I placed on your page above - it will give you a far better idea of what the base rules, but simply all are welcome. Yes, you can muck up an article, but its easy to revert!

The easiest place to learn is in a stub page, and its also a place where you can create an article and drag stuff in/take as much time as you want to create something, before others - yes, like me - come long and critic/edit it. I have created you a personal stubs page here. On that page you will find three further pages:

• • a play page to litterally play!
  • A copy of the existing in production British post-war temporary prefab houses
  • A copy of your last editted version of British post-war temporary prefab houses

Now, you can play around and edit these as much as you want, the only thing I have done is remove the categories by removing the first [[ from them - so they are not indexed!

I think there is something in your edits. I create the original article as a collection point for all things prefab - took me nearly three months to create the thing - but your piece to me seemd to skim across a number of issues:

• • Post War British society
  • British society and its changes post war
  • British working communities and their relationships
  • The relationship between community and architecture

I'd like to help you create your first article, which I think your edits suggest is easily capable. The question now is what is it about, and does it stand on its own or within something else? I sugget that you go have an edit or two on either the existing stubs I have created for you, or create your own new stub and have a think. Happy to help, much as though my drive towards the subject was from an architectural direction, buildings only existing for and within a society.

Re your pictures, don't upload those yet! There are licensing issues associated with pictures which are a fun issue in themselves, and also you need to recognise once loaded they are free-licensed so that anyone can use them. Many points of debate there, but get the text context right first, and then we can address that:

I now have your talkpage in my watchlist, so you can come back and comment here, or on your own talkpage. Glad to have you on board, lets get that first article into production. With Best Regards, --Ian aka Trident13 (talk) 16:29, 12 April 2011 (UTC)