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*While many articles on the site have been copied from their Wikipedia counterparts, the ultimate goal is to rewrite them eventually to better reflect the focus of Pensapedia. To that end, please include the template <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:wikipedia|wikipedia]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> at the top of each such page; this will add them to [[:Category:Copied from Wikipedia]] to let other users know which articles need to be rewritten.
Hopefully these suggestions will help clear up some uncertainty about the nature of this project that I haven't had a chance to address properly in the Help section. Thanks for your participation! --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 10:24, 29 March 2007 (CDT)
==Suggestions==
Welcome back! I'm glad to see your continued participation, but I think your contributions are leaning too heavily on Wikipedia. Specifically, I think the [[Pensacola overview]] may be unnecessary: the full Wikipedia text is too verbose and awkward, and I'm not sure what the purpose of an "overview" page would be.
Our main goal is to create articles that have their own unique voice and perspective. While existing Wikipedia articles provide a great starting point for in-depth topics that require copious research, we should try to do more than just copy-paste entire articles. If you want to see a couple examples of pages that have used their Wikipedia counterparts as starting points, see [[Kent Hovind]] ([[Wikipedia:Kent Hovind|Wikipedia version]]) and [[Pensacola Beach, Florida]] ([[Wikipedia:Pensacola Beach, Florida|Wikipedia version]]). As you can see, large chunks of the Wikipedia article have been removed entirely, and many of the links that aren't relevant to our purposes have been converted to text only.
I know that it's hard to anticipate what we're looking for, since we haven't taken the time to write thorough guidelines, but I hope this will help. Please feel free to [[Special:Emailuser/Admin|contact me]] if you have any questions. Thanks! --[[User:Admin|Admin]] 17:46, 29 July 2007 (CDT)