From what I can tell, this entire article is pasted straight from instructables--www.instructables.com/id/9-simple-measures-to-become-green-healthy-and-soc/. The instructable might be partially copied from a book, since there are pictures of self-help books? I don't know. The topic has a chance of being good; the current article is hopelessly difficult to read and seems to suffer from One True Wayism. Or perhaps it is just the author's personal plan (he or she often says "we will do this, then we will do this...") and we need to make it more applicable to others. He or she has a total plan in a zip file included; it's not a very definite plan, but it is certainly some research. I am re-arranging the way that the original author laid out the information, breaking it down into categories, and re-sorting some of the categories before re-writing entire sections for clarity. I welcome all additions. --rejoicingapathy
- I agree. Thank you for working on this! --Lonny 22:12, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
At this point, the article barely resembles the original on instructables. Should we take out the "this is from instructables" tag? Two conflicting problems: (1) Additions are needed, particularly for awesome stuff to do for Further Activities, I am way too lame to do this. (2) It is already kind of too long. Are there parts that should be paraphrased? --rejoicingapathy
- If there's really only a few sentences the same as the original, then the notice can be removed. Otherwise, it's ok to leave the notice, since it notes that it's modified. (Actually, the permission statement isn't clear enough as it doesn't make clear that the writer understood the license; but I won't make a fuss as I think with continued editing, any potential copyvio will disappear.)
- I'm not sure how to deal with the page... I feel more comfortable having all this information on different topic pages for each suggestion. Then a kind of overview or guide page like this could be very brief, maybe just a sentence on each suggestion, with a relevant link to an excellent page that can help people with taking action if they need it. --Chriswaterguy 09:30, 5 December 2010 (UTC)