User talk:Russ McLean

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[edit] Secret Millionaire

A tag has been placed on Secret Millionaire, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Benea (talk) 22:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Caledonian MacBrayne appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. We can't accept any content that is prefaced with the sentence "In deference to the time immemorial and historic MacBrayne poem, a little poetic licence might add a few lines to describe..." That's obviously point-of-view and not encyclopedic (and that poem is already noted in that section) ZimZalaBim ^talk 23:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Your moderators are very quick. I was endeavouring to obtain the citations needed for both poems: http://www.virtualhebrides.com/scalpay/scalpay/scalpay_history/taylor/index2.htm for example. However, before this and the others could be inserted your moderator deleted the contributions.

Perhaps it may be worth considering that the Wiki encyclopedia might be improved if it were not so antiseptic in the content it allows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Russ McLean (talk • contribs)

First, please sign your talk page comments with 4 tildes (~~~~), which will insert your name and date. Second, please review our guidelines, which will shed some light on what content is accepted in this encyclopedia. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 23:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Further, on first glance, that link does not appear to be a suitable citation to confirm that the poem is indeed "legendary". --ZimZalaBim ^talk 23:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)