User talk:SmarterChild

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Regarding "History of Backpack Design", see Wikipedia:No original research. Of course, as a backpack engineer you may be knowledgable regarding great sources on backpack design. More importantly, the article on backpack is currently not long enough to require a seperate article devoted to their designs. Also, the titles of Wikipedia articles should use Lowercase_second_and_subsequent_words (Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)).

But don't be discouraged by Dhartung, as I see little at the top of the page that would have discouraged your nominating "History of Backpack Design" (though I agree that it is not, in practice, what the Collaboration of the Week is intended for. Spinning rims (Rims? is it a brand name?) is, I think, a more than appropriate COTW nominee) and there is a written policy against biting newcomers. Hyacinth 00:28, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)