User talk:Kegavin

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Hello, Kegavin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Pentawing^Talk 00:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UM medical campus additions

I saw your additions to the University of Michigan article concerning the medical campus. Though I appreciate your enthusiasm, the formatting of the passage is a complete mess and is full of POV (something that is highly discouraged at Wikipedia). Given the fact that the UM article is a featured article (the best of the best that Wikipedia has to offer), I had no choice but to remove the medical campus passage for now. If you wish to include the material, I would suggest you look over it (it is accessible through the history tab at the last entry when you last edited the article) and make sure it is up to Wikipedia standards (a good place to start work on the medical campus passage is the UM Medical Center article, which I have begun to clean up). If you have any more questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Pentawing^Talk 00:07, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. In the meantime, I have recovered the passage and placed it on the talk page with the aim of making it available for others to help with the cleanup. Anyways, I should note that the UM article was on the front page of Wikipedia in January 2006. However, due to POV problems (which came about because when I worked on the article to featured status, I had no other university articles to guide me. The UM article was the first featured university article. The people at MSU got the idea to make the MSU article featured soon afterwards :-0), the article almost lost its featured status. It took a huge effort on my part to try to save it.

Here is one advice for editing in Wikipedia: use your user page as what people at Wikipedia call a "Sandbox" (I call it a "desk" or "lab"), where you can write out and modify drafts of passages (this is especially true for long paragraphs, passages of more than one paragraph, or even new articles), or experiment with table/chart formatting. When I started, I merely did some minor article proofreading and formatting cleanup before I became confident enough to write up large portions of article (such as the UM article and Ann Arbor). So with some practice, you can become an experienced Wikipedian who might get the UM Medical Center article to featured status (and maybe become a Wiki addict in the process). Pentawing^Talk 00:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:UMHSLogoC.gif)

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