User talk:-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo-
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. Keep up the efforts to improve what you see. However, can you point to anywhere that encourages the lines (----) you are putting in pages? That is a mostly deprecated way of doing pages and is generally considered bad style. Proper sectioning using == === and ==== is considered better and encourages better writing and more coherent sections. Any article that needs dividers like ---- should instead be fixed properly. Thanks - Taxman 23:38, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
- I left my response to your comments on my talk page for consistency. Please do spend some time learning the conventions of Wikipedia, it will make your editing go smoother. - Taxman 18:35, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
Short selling--give it a rest already.
I'm glad you're doing well as a seasonal spread trader, but that's no reason to force-fit a note about it under "short selling.” --OwenX 17:26, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The previous definition of short selling is out and out wrong. The definition should be universal and neutral. What you have there is a load of mis-information. It is misleading and untrue. It only applies to one small highly regulated use. Maybe you should change the name to something like “short selling (stocks only),” because it sure does not apply to real estate or normal businesses.
The current page says “In order to sell something short, one must borrow it from someone else.” Bill Gates did not have to borrow something from someone else, and he was selling short. How do you explain that?
I can sell 5,000 bushels of November Corn, I do not have to borrow anything. How can this page be true?
When Bill Gates sold an operating system he “did not have,” to IBM. Gates was selling short. He sold something before he bought it. He did not adhere to all these things this writer says. Short selling futures, real estate, and fungible property is a part of the Speculation business and it does not fit the current limited description used under this heading for selling short. GT
Tip
Helpful tip: You should create redirects instead of creating multiple articles with the same exact content. To create a redirect from Page A to Page B, type "#REDIRECT [[PageB]]" in the text of Page A. Happy editing. Rhobite 07:47, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- You can use the "Move" tab at the top of your screen if you want to rename an article. It is MUCH MUCH better to use "Move" than to copy and paste an article's text, since moving a page preserves its history. You may want to read through Wikipedia:Tutorial, it really does help. Be sure to read up on naming schemes - specifically, an article's name shouldn't be capitalized unless it's a proper name. Also, article names usually shouldn't be plural. Rhobite 07:54, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- I don't understand your message, but I do want to point out that you're making a bit of a mess by creating multiple articles which go against naming conventions and duplicating content. Please look over the Wikipedia:Manual of style before continuing. Thanks. Rhobite 08:25, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
Short and Short selling are about the exact same topic. If there's any information in Short that you need, please move it to Short selling and replace the redirect. Our policy is to not have more than one article about the same topic. Rhobite 08:33, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
- I've turned short into a disambiguation page, as it may have several meanings: see the page for details. -- The Anome 11:16, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
What are you yelling at me about? If you don't like the wording on short selling, please change it. You're complaining very loudly, but you're not doing anything to fix the problem. I didn't even write the sentence, so please be more careful about accusing people. Rhobite 03:49, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
Inconsistency
You say, “removed the technical analysis part, that should be in a dictionary,”
Maybe so, but how is this any different than the definition that you left in Statistics?
- In Statistics, a trend is a long-term movement in time series data after other components have been accounted for;
- In technical analysis the existing general direction of movement of energy expressed as the relationship between prices. "the trend is your friend!” Dr George Lane GT
- Hey, you are right! Let me tell you how I thought. I saw that article was in need of clean up. It had two very different topics, each exactly one sentence long. So, I made a "Solomonic" decision. I left the definition which had more chances to become a full-fledged article, and posted a message on Talk:Statistics asking for an expansion.
- Now, from your page I gather you know something about commerce/finance? Could you please write a nice article on trends as far as the prices thing is concerned? (I mean the second definition.) Everybody would be most grateful. But I am against putting that sentence back, for the reasons in the previous paragraph. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 04:24, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
OK GT
It was not me who put that quote. Did you check the page history? All I did was to write "investor" instead of "Investor". I agree with you that the article looks nicer now. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 18:05, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Trend Quotes 2
Aloha, I put the quote. I was wondering what was the correct way to quote it. The bullets seem to separate. GT
- Got it now. I don't know what to advice though. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 18:38, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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