Patrickice

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Litesourcing

Please provide sources for your essay at Litesourcing asap - I cannot seem to find any reference to this term. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 00:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Personal offshoring

Could you please provide some more sources for this article... asap... I can't find references for about 99% of the content in it, and I'd like to help improve it. The article reads suspiciously like you just copied it from a book. Please let me know if that is the case, and we can remove it all, and rebuild the article from scratch. Petemyers (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The content was originally pulled from an internal presentation document I wrote while at a company I work for. No, they don't care if Wikipedia uses it since that project is dead. The definitions represent my working knowledge of the subject matter and probably can be improved. It also reads like a presentation and not so much an encyclopedia, so the writing style could be modified. BTW, I'm getting a bit tired of people threatening to arbitrarily delete my work, especially when I already spent hours meeting the demands of another Wikipedia admin. The majority of the content was re-organized and rewritten from scratch at admin Kuru's behest. Wasn't that enough? But when I have some free time I'll see if I can track down the references I made. I didn't keep them in the original document but I'm sure they're in my notes "somewhere". Otherwise, I'm glad someone else has an interest in this topic. I'd suggest the WSJ, Fortune, and other business periodicals. Patrickice (talk) 01:34, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Patrickice. I'm sorry that you feel tired that people have muddled with this. I'm sorry if my comment stung a little! However, Wikipedia has guidelines for how it's articles are to be written, and content is to be put up. Those guidelines are important because, they ensure that Wikipedia stays encyclopedic and doesn't just degenerate into a bunch of personal webpages. Since this is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, it's especially important that anything included in it is backed up with a Verifiable source. The idea is, that, anything put into the article is put in such a way that it can be verified, and improved, by someone else who has never met you. It's great that you're contributing to Wikipedia, but doing so according to the guidelines will ensure that you don't end up having to redo lots of stuff on your own. Making sure that you reference everything you put here, include links to other Wikipedia pages, and try to organise content in a way that makes it easy to navigate are, essentially, the bare necessities that will make an article attract other editors, rather than attract criticism. For example, I've come across a number of other pages that looked similar to the style of yours that were either just copied rote from a book, or, an attempt to blatantly advertise something or give credibility to something uncredible. I'm offering to work with you to Wikify the page and clean it up. I've written a new section on the article's talk page, with an initial suggestion for how to start making the article more of an encyclopedia. I'd invite you to go there, and respond to my question. Petemyers (talk) 16:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)