Talk:Lonie Walker

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[edit] Things that can be done to help clean up this article

• The diction is quite hypish and promotional, and hardly WP:NPOV. The whole article reads like a magazine review.
• Quotations should never, ever be used to narrate an article. This is an encyclopedia entry, not an interview. Where they remain, each one needs an inline citation.
• The section on her bar should either be split into a separate article or drastically cut down. The article's about her, not her business.
• The album sections should be split into separate articles.
• The trivia section should be removed. If the information isn't important enough to be incorporated into the article's prose, it shouldn't be in the encyclopedia entry. Trivial is the opposite of encyclopedic.
• Similarly, the quotes section could stand to be removed; if she's not known for being quotable, they belong in Wikiquote at best.
• All the sources listed are from a website the subject is associated with. At the very least, if the press reviews and magazine articles reproduced on her web site are legitimate, they should be sourced directly, not through her site.
• Category:American poets should be removed unless she's actually a published poet.
• Here are a few links that might help: WP:BETTER, WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, WP:Weasel, WP:RS, WP:Verify
• With some work, this article could be very interesting. Good luck.

Cricket02 05:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)