User talk:Ckmoak
Welcome!
Hello, Ckmoak, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- Help pages
- What the ISFDB Wiki is for
- ISFDB FAQ
- Help:Screen:EditPub#General contents - Warning and a note on how to update a publication's contents
- Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -DES Talk 22:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Bio page
You created a biographical page at K. W. Moak. I have moved it to Bio:K. W. Moak. I have also edited it to make it conform better to our Biography Policy that such a page should be "...a short, neutral, factual article, professional in tone...", and with our Guidelines which say:
For those authors who do not have and are not eligible for Wikipedia articles, or whose Wikipedia articles might plausibly be deleted in future, a brief, neutrally-written biographical article can be placed on the page Bio:<name of author>.... When an author Bio page is posted on the ISFDB Wiki, it should be professional in tone, not facetious, "cutsey", or blatantly promotional. Some authors engage in jokes in printed "About the author" sections of books, or on their own websites, but the ISFDB is not the place for such writing. The purpose of any Bio page on the Wiki is to inform users and other editors briefly about the facts of the author's life. Bio pages should not include blurbs from or summaries of the author's works. Bio pages ought to be factual in content, and the facts ought to be verifiable.
I have also updatred our authopr record, foud at K. W. Moak, with information from the biography. Thank you for the information. I hope this note will be helpful. -DES Talk 22:39, 23 September 2008 (UTC)