User talk:Peter Elman

Sting edit in Tony Hollingsworth

Hi Peter, regarding this edit. Please note that Sting points to a disambiguation page, as there are lots of forms of Sting in the English language, as well as more than one person. For the musician you need Sting (musician). I have edited it back. Cheers. (Quentin X (talk) 11:35, 11 February 2009 (UTC))

Tony Hollingsworth

Hi Peter Elman, I saw your question on Backslash Forwardslash's talk page and thought I would take a look at the article. Anyway, I removed the {{POV-check}} tag, but I think there are still problems that need to be addressed. One is peacock words—for example in, "Hollingsworth developed several key concepts", "key" does not need to be there. The language should be as try and factual as possible, not trying to make Hollister look good. Ironically, the harder you try in an article to make someone look good, the worse readers' opinion of him will be (for example, the South Korea article has for a long time had major problems with peacock and promotional wording, and a lot of readers would come to the talk page and say that the overly positive slant of the article actually gave them a negative opinion).

Another thing that needs to be addressed is general article structure. In particular, the List of Hollingsworth productions and campaigns section needs to be completely removed, as it reads like a CV, and Wikipedia is not a web hosting space for stuff like that. The Events produced by Hollingsworth section has similar problems; it is like a CV, and mostly unreferenced. It should be trimmed down to a summary of maybe two or three short paragraphs. Also, I'm not sure what the difference between "events produced by Hollingsworth" and "List of Hollingsworth productions and campaigns" really is. Finally, it needs to have a short introduction before the beginning of whatever the first section is. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:44, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday

No, the reason was that a whole section's subject matter was almost completely changed. It seemed like it may have violated NPOV. Knowing that it could be changed back with ease, I undid it. I was assuming good faith, though. Sorry about any confusion! That's my two scents 23:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that looks good. The one thing I don't understand is why you removed the section "The Concert," but I will definitely trust your judgment over mine, you probably know a lot more about it than me. That's my two scents 20:01, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tony Hollingsworth

An article that you have been involved in editing, Tony Hollingsworth, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Hollingsworth. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 14:58, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute

Hi there, did you write most of the copy for this entry? I'd like to use some of it for a PhD thesis, but will need to attribute properly. Would you be able to help me out with sources? EmjayE2 (talk) 15:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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