User talk:Kerri Park

Hello,

I'm trying to use the redirect function for David Bell. i tried the following:

1. REDIRECT David Bell (Permanent Secretary DCSF)
2. REDIRECT David Bell (Chairman, Financial Times Group)

Does this command have to appear on a completely blank page? and if so how do I get one?

Thank you, K

Hi Kerri,

I see you are trying to work on this. Good stuff... Leave me a message if you have any queries. Just type it at the top of the page here: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/User_talk:David

Yuo could also add a short biog note to your user page: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=User:Kerri_Park&action=edit

--David 09:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

oh, and don't forget to add the formatting text that displays the footnotes at the bottom. It should look like this :

==Notes==

<references/>

--David 09:14, 28 October 2008 (UTC) Kerri,

1. I don't think I have referenced it correctly?!

• I have sorted this - but you will need to add the original sources

2. I practically lifted it straight from the Century of Spin book. If I am going to do that should I copy the text exact and use quotations? I some places I have added my own words and then then used those from the book. Is this wrong? Should I do it one way or the other - copy and paste with refs. or make it all my own words and ref?

• In general you should write in your own words and then use quotations where appropriate (ie from A Century of Spin). You also need to make sure you give the original source for each quote you use (ie from the footnotes in a Century of Spin)

to ask me questions click on my name below and then click discussion to go to my talk page.... --David 12:45, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

David Bell

to do this you would need to move the page David Bell to a new name: David Bell (Financial Times) and t5hen create the other new page: David Bell (civil servant). then go back to the orignal page and edit it so that it includes a link to both Davids.

I have done so...

--David 12:35, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

oh thanks david!

referencing

Hi,

Good work. In referring to websites you need to say who website. eg 'The website states' needs 'The Webdsite of the department for Children, Schools and Families states' and then the ref needs to be to the DCSF as the author and not the Childrens Plan. Make sure that each new page includes a ref at the to to which governnment department/s the relevant body is part of ...

ok?

Keep up the good work.

--David 13:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

another thing

When describing official actions, plans and intentions make sure you attribute them.

eg don't say as you do on the DCSF page 'With the aim of improving the health of children,' but instead: 'With the declared/stated/claimed/alleged (or some synonym) aim of improving the health of children,' You don't know yet what the aim is and you should report that they claim this to be their aim. It may turn out that you think their wim is different...

--David 13:13, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Dates of sources

HI Kerri

Just a point on refs: could you include the date of the article in your ref (as well as the date you accessed the article), thus: <ref>Joe Smith, "[http://blahblah.org Blah is blah]", The Times, 20 April 2005, accessed February 2009.</ref>

Can you go through your recent articles and put these in? This kind of info is important in helping people find our sources even if they have vanished from the web or the url has moved.

thank you for your great work. --Claire Robinson 18:34, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

amendments

Hello,

I have went through the points you both made, and tried to amend the pages I have created so far. Claire, you mentioned including the dates of articles when referencing. Does this include websites too? Where dates were written on websites I have now included them in the reference, however many websites didn't appear to have a date.

Thank you, K