User talk:Martyappel

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thanks for checking out Wikipedia and making some contributions -- I've been monitoring the Eric Gregg article and was surprised there was no Marty Appel article on Wikipedia before now. Assuming you're Marty Appel, I'd like to direct you to some guidelines we have here, WP:AUTO and WP:COI. What's there may sound a bit harsh (they are intended for vanity or spam contributors, not people who meet notability guidelines), but there may be some information you can find useful. I'm going to start working on the article -- mainly clarifying internal links, adding sources and external links and including the article in categories. As a Yankee fan who's heard you speak in person before I'm looking forward to helping out with this article. Please let me know if you have any questions by leaving a message on my talk page. Thanks again for your contributions. SliceNYC (Talk) 19:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment, Marty. My goal in that first round of edits was to make it read more like the other biographies on Wiki, and then expanding from there. For instance, when I get the chance I'd like to add a section with a bulleted list of all your books, similar to the "Filmography" sections in the articles for actors and directors.

I took a cursory glance at some of the articles from this list to see how they were written given that the subject was an editor. I'll do my best to find sources and incorporate the information that's given, but like with those other people who have articles, definitely let me (or anyone else who edits the article) know if we misinterpreted something or got it wrong. And any information you can provide that wouldn't be on the Web (like you already did with d.o.b. and family stuff) is of course greatly appreciated.

I don't have any hard stats on where Wikipedians come from, but it seems to me that Wikipedia's something like 40%-40% British and American, with a handful of Australians, Canadians and other English-speaking people too. (Plus you've got all the foreign-language versions of Wikipedia.) I'm from New York.

Lastly, it's quite fascinating both as a Wikipedian to be communicating with the subject of an article and then as a baseball fan/SABR member for that article subject to be someone whose work I've seen and respect. These dialogues are part of the reason why I enjoy reading and editing Wikipedia.

SliceNYC (Talk) 04:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I noticed on my talk page that you called me Robert -- my name's actually Andrew; someone named Robert had previously left a message on my talk page.