User talk:Stewart Fist

Hi Stewart, welcome to SourceWatch. I'm about to knock off for the night but I'll send you an email in the next day or so and introduce you to Anne Landman, who is CMD's tobacco specialist. --Bob Burton 07:37, 26 January 2007 (EST)

Peter Ackerman
Hi Stewart, the "Early History" material you added to the profile of Peter Ackerman could do with a few more references. While much of the material you added seems to be based on books, the style tags don't require an online link. See http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:References. Cheers --Bob Burton 13:30, 6 January 2008 (EST)

The "Move" function
Hi Stewart. When there is a more appropriate title for an article the best way to make the change is through the use of the "move" function (see the tab at the top of the page). This enables you to shift the page and its entire edit history to a new name. The alternative, of creating an new page and either leaving the old page or deleting has significant downsides: leaving it creates confusion when two near identical pages turn up in a search while deleting it removes the edit history. In the case of the TIRC page I agree with your new title so have deleted the old page (as it was only a stub the loss of the edit history doesn't matter much).--Bob Burton 15:31, 6 February 2008 (EST)

Website conventions
Hi, Stewart,

Thanks for your contributions to SourceWatch. I'd like to call your attention to a few website conventions. The most important is that all information must be referenced -- see SourceWatch: References. I just moved large blocks of text from the Social costs article to the "discussion" page, because they were not referenced.

Please also be careful to use "news style" writing -- not to editorialize, or to use such loaded phrases as "holding their hands out." (The preferred alternative would be something like: "Many academics received payment from tobacco companies," followed by examples and/or references.)

Lastly, please note that there are formatting conventions on SourceWatch. For example, the title of the article is repeated in bold at the top of the article. (In a few cases, you've moved the title down to the first heading.) Please take a look at SourceWatch:Manual of Style and related help pages.

best, Diane Farsetta 10:38, 12 February 2008 (EST)

Tobaccowiki template
Hi Stewart, a small point - I noticed that on a few occasions you have added the TW template tag as which doesn't work -- it will work if you use lower case w for the wiki - ie Tobaccowiki. cheers, --Bob Burton 22:01, 14 February 2008 (EST)

Please always add references
Dear Stewart,

Please always indicate where the information you add to SourceWatch has come from, by either adding a direct URL link in brackets or using the "ref" tag system (the latter is preferred, but either is helpful). This is the most important rule we have on SourceWatch. Without references, it is much more difficult to ensure the quality of information on our site. Please see SourceWatch:References for more info.

Just a heads up, as I noticed your recent entries on Mary Pottorff and Mopsy have no references at all. Thanks for your help.

10:32, 19 February 2008 (EST)