User talk:Wrp103
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Cheryl Wheeler
Hello! I'm glad to see someone did an article on Cheryl Wheeler. She's been on my to-do list for a while but I haven't gotten around to it.
Some specific points you should bear in mind for future articles:
- The Wikipedia convention is: album titles italicized, song titles in quotation marks.
- Your second round of edits was much less fannish -- but you should still remember that, although fans refer to her as "Cheryl", an encyclopedia refers to her as "Wheeler". (There are, alas, several other fan-authored articles that violate this rule.)
- Headings, like "External link", capitalize only the first word, unless a later word would normally be capitalized anyway (e.g. a proper name).
- To embed an external link in text, like the one you titled "tours extensively", you enclose the URL in single brackets. Use double brackets only for a wikilink (to another Wikipedia article). Usually, you wikilink only the first occurrence of a term, although in a long article some people will wikilink the first appearance in a new section. (What to wikilink in the first place is a matter as to which opinions differ. Some people link just about everything. Don't be surprised if someone comes along and wikilinks motel in the discussion of "Alice". For my part, I link when I think the reader might reasonably want more information; knowing more about Gandhi or Buddha sheds some light on that song, so I linked those names.)
So, now that you know all about Wikipedia policies... are you by any chance a John Gorka fan, too? JamesMLane 20:27, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Username
Hiya. You might find WP:FAQ helpful, but I'm not sure how much it covers - I mainly read docs as I come across them, or someone points them out.
For usernames, you can change your signature (~~~) in Preferences (under 'nickname'). The software surrounds whatever you put there with [[User:Username| ... ]], so you can do various interesting things; I use —Kate]] | [[User talk:Kate|Talk which makes a link to my talk page. Alternatively you can change your actual username (which is what I did) at Wikipedia:Changing username, but that has to be done by a developer, so it can can take a while.
Hope that helps! —Kate | Talk 04:52, 2004 Aug 9 (UTC)
Human
I have a short favor to ask of you. The Human discussion is getting strong, and I think it would help to lay our cards on the talbe so the "secularists" can see just how different is our point of view on just what is a human. But at the same time, I want to be able to get a "generic" (ha ha) religious view. In any case, would you take some time to drop by my user talk page and add your personally believed factual definition of what is a human. I appreciate it. Tom - Talk 14:56, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Why'd you change the image I placed on C programming language? Dysprosia 13:16, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- No, it's not a problem, but it's just I preferred the cover of my copy, it looks a little neater somehow, I don't know. If I can get a cleaner image later, you wouldn't mind if I switch it back?
- I have two tips for you in response:
- make an edit comment next time, saying what you are doing, so for example "changing picture: previous one looks too yellow". This means that if someone wants to know why an edit is done, then they can read the comment.
- Your signature isn't quite right. The talk section is linking to "Talk:Wrp103" and not "User talk:Wrp103". You should change that.
- HTH Dysprosia 06:03, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Holy Temples
Thank you for being circumspect in your edits. Tom 14:39, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yeah. This is the personal way to communicate, though I think the talk pages for the articles are more convenient, if you know a person is "Watch"ing an article. I usually just use the user talk pages if I'm not sure they will see it at the article talk, or for a semi-private remark. Tom 20:35, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yeah. It triggered a new message. I click on diff so I will see immediately the new stuff. And I like the way you have added Talk to your sig. That is getting common enough they ought to add it to the software. Tom 23:49, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Linked list wikicode
Hey, sorry to roll back your wikicode changes in Linked list, but as you once explained to me yourself, English text which indicates an operation being performed rather than being explanative should not be in comments. Parenthesized comments have also been obsoleted some time ago in the interest of consistency. Derrick Coetzee 21:34, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints=
I reverted the page one step, as I agree that the edits were going in the right direction - however, it needs to be re-looked at in fine detail and corrected - something I don't have time to do today. Can one of you take? -Visorstuff 18:28, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
WikiProject Wiki Syntax
Good morning. Thank you for helping to clean up the Wikisyntax. I was not aware of that effort until I saw some of your edits. I do, however, have to disagree with some of the minor changes you've been making in a couple of paragraphs where the author/editor has chosen to itemize his/her arguments. For example, at Bee learning and communication, someone wrote "The primary lines of evidence used by the odor plume advocates are 1) clinical experiments with odorless sugar sources which show that worker bees are unable to recruit to those sources and 2) logical difficulties of a small-scale dance..." You changed those to "(1)..." and "(2)...". This may be a small point, but I believe it is stylistically incorrect. Surrounding the number on both sides generally indicates a footnote, not a segmented argument.
I'm guessing that this is going to create some false positives on the automated list of possible syntax errors but I'm going to revert those changes. I've made a comment on the project's Talk page about the problem as I see it. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 12:26, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)
Linked list
Hi, I've put this on WP:FAC. One of the objections is that the VB code seems out of place in an article that is all Wikicode. Would you object if I did a bit of reorganisation? I know that you put a lot of work into it, and I'd love to see this article placed onto WP:FA! Heck, an article like this one could even be placed onto the front page :-)
Incidently, I initially saw this article when I wrote my article about Btrieve, which uses linked lists for duplicate key entries. So this was a great wikilink! - Ta bu shi da yu 10:02, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I think it's good! We could still put those VB code examples into the language support. Out of interest, what are your references for this information? We need this to get the article to featured article status.... also, have you got information on the history of the linked list? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:10, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Wow! I see we have an experienced old computer dog around the place :P I think that's great! It's kind of like how I learned about binary trees: someone showed me. Still, I've added some references so that should help with getting this to FAC. If you have any C programming books that explain linked lists, please feel free to add a reference to them with page numbers... hint hint :) Ta bu shi da yu 14:11, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the help
Just noticed that you started helping me do the renaming on the pages to include "The" - thanks bunches - I should have some time tonight to do some more edits. If you notice anything that looks like it needs work (expecially if there are articles that deal with terms unique to mormonism [like Seventy]) send me a quick note with those as I am going to work on those next. Have a good day [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]) 15:37, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Black History
In spite of my tenure, I haven't gotten into creating templates and categories. If I am not mistaken, User:Cookiecaper has done a lot of that at WP:LDS. Sorry I'm not more help. You may want to just ask at the LDS project talk page. Tom Haws 05:00, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)