User talk:NPA8640
Welcome to Wikipedia
Hi, I noticed you are new, and that you are making a good start by adding an interesting and appropriate article to Wikipedia. I think some official greeting or another will be posted to your page, but in the meanwhile a couple things that might help:
a) Only the first mention of a word or phrase is linked. This is explained in
b) You seem to be using an text editor
with word wrap
turned on. Wiki articles don't do this, in order that people with different size editing windows don't have trouble editing it later.
c) The links to the petersandmay site are broken.
d) At the moment the article is carefully neutral and informative. However, when I got to the last line, I guessed that you are in some way involved with one of these yacht transport companies. If that's the case, would would need to be careful not to add more material that is advertising, or expresses a point of view that others may strongly disagree with. For example, what would happen eventually is that another editor coming across the article by chance will simply delete the links to commercial sites (there are more than the usual number, already). Alternatively the editor might add a tag at the top to the effect of "This article reads like an advertisement". (This is not a tag that could be removed, without substantial article rewriting.) Sentences viewed as having a "conflict of interest" might be deleted. (Following restrictions in
I hope you decide to contribute to other Wiki shipping articles, there are quite a lot which need improvement from someone who knows the field well!
Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 07:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Answering a question of yours
(This is a duplicate of what I left on my talk page. Wanted to make sure you got it.) "Passaging" is an interesting example, because there's already an article
In terms of good Wiki references for style, content, format...there are so many! I've been collecting them, both in bookmarks, and in a separate (and now quite lengthy) word processing file. But taken all together, they are quite overwhelming, so if there are issues that interest you, let me know which ones. You can, of course, have my bookmarks or my word processing file, but it may be easier just to learn as you go. I've just decided to begin using strikeout. I'm not even sure what the accepted usage is! But I felt it wasn't useful for to leave my sentences on some article's Discussion page, when the issue had been resolved since I left the comment. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 03:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Yacht_Transport
The article
- Non-notable subject
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- Hello again! I've presented reasons why the article should be kept. I don't believe it needs any vigorous defense on your part.
- I must say though, given the quality of what you wrote, I was really hoping to see a few other new Wiki articles by you, by this time! Or at least a few corrections in your favorite topics! At any rate, Best Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 14:27, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
August 2009
September 2009
Answered your query about how to proceed
Hi, I answered your question, and other issues with the Institute on my page. It's pretty involved, but the answer to your immediate question is: move the image further down in the article, not at the top. That's what the editor's comment was directed to. Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 08:55, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
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How can we track the number of hits or views on our articles?? I know how to track the edits but interested in how many people click to read.
Thanks for your help! --NPA8640 (talk) 16:51, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
- There is no way to do this. You can only track edits. Joe Gazz84user•talk•contribs•Editor Review 17:03, 27 August 2010 (UTC)