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George Lyward

I have written an extensively expanded article on the educationalist and psychotherapist George Lyward* (3400 words) based on and including the one that is currently there (750 words). This being such a major change I did not want to just plonk it in there without any warning and thought I should run it by a senior editor first. Can you advise me please ? Many thanks.

• George Lyward Taraxacum44 (talk) 15:46, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Answered at WP:Help desk#Extensive replacement text for existing entry. In future, please post your question in the one best place you can figure out. If nothing happens after a suitable interval (at least 24 hours in most cases), you may consider posting somewhere else. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 16:23, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Moved draft

Hi, I've moved your sandbox draft into the draft name space, which is the preferred location for pending drafts. You can now find it at Draft:John Killick (writer). Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:32, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks for the speedy response ! Taraxacum44 (talk) 07:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

George Lyward

Hallo Taraxacum44 (or should I call you Dandelion?), thanks for all your work on George Lyward. I created a very basic stub back in 2012 after hearing the Great Lives episode. I see that in my initial edit summary I didn't say so but said "add further reading - scope to expand article greatly": I must have forgotten that I hadn't yet saved any version of the article, as I usually make a note of why I started the article, in the first edit summary. I was certainly aware that there was much more to be written about this interesting person, but hoped that the basic content I'd added, together with the references, further reading, and external links, gave a good starting point. It's great to see someone with real knowledge adding more references and expanding the article in a well-sourced way. Thanks.

A couple of little points: there shouldn't be a space before a reference, or between references, and Wikipedia doesn't use "curly" or "slanted" quotes/apostrophes. I've done a bit of copy-editing on those two counts, added a few links, and expanded on the listed building stuff (also added the Finchden Manor redirect to Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Kent and Category:Grade II* listed houses, while I was about it.)

I see above that you asked at the Helpdesk about just overwriting the existing article with your new version: thanks for not doing so but improving it incrementally based on the existing content. Happy Editing! PamD 23:10, 17 May 2024 (UTC)