OCHS.OSH

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Please fill out the edit summary when making changes so that other editors will understand why the changes are being made. We have to be able to distinguish between simple vandalism and the real thing. Particularly when one year changes are made to a fact as with the Twilight article. Slight changing of a year or other figure is a "cute" trick of vandals. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 22:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello, OCHS.OSH, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been deleted for this very reason.

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Hey Jarry, yes, I do work for the museum, as you can tell from my username :-) We wanted to create a page since it is not in existence.

I'm not very knowledgeable with how this works with all the different steps. If regulations require someone to proof it, absolutely! How would I get someone to do that job for me?

OCHS.OSH (talk) 14:54, 9 June 2009 (UTC

I'll keep an eye on the page for you. Thanks for replying, my previous message was a pretty much generic one so don't be worried if it doesn't all apply to you. There are very firm rules, just be careful to write about the museum the way someone would write about it in a paper encyclopedia, for example. I can tell you now, Old Stone House Museum looks a lot better than most new page creations, so kudos for that! Continue to edit the article and improve it - maybe look at the articles about similar places and see how they do things. I'm going to be making some edits to the article soon to help you on your way - nothing major - but you might like to see what I've changed. You can do this by "watching" the page, then have a look at your watchlist. When you see an edit there, you can press "diff" to see what they've changed. Anyhow, happy editing, and please, let me know if you have any problems. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 16:02, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

As a general rule, I wouldn't use them if you can find better (and you normally can if you try hard enough!). If you can't find a better source, then I think that something is better than nothing. Less applicable for this article than others, but I wouldn't use them to back up controversial points either. Of course, you could always publish them! Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 17:59, 9 June 2009 (UTC)