User talk:Jengod/Archive 4

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Please slow down your edits and use the preview button. Rmhermen 01:10, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

Howdy. Could you please use the "Summary" more often when editing articles and perhaps include more minor changes per save (when making a minor edit)? Thanks! Daniel Quinlan 05:12, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

Just a note. We add new content to the bottom of talk pages. I don't know why, it is just the common practice. Rmhermen

Where did you find out about the Old Granny sweat weed? Wiwaxia 04:51, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I see you commented out a section from Camino Real. I think you should put that part back:

firstly, please don't delete or comment-out content and mark the revision as minor
secondly, these paragraphs came from the Hackers Jargon file, which we (deliberately) imported a while ago. So there is a lot of geeky content. If you intend to purge the wikipedia of all content you consider to be inappropriate for reason of geekiness, please report your intention on Wikipedia:Village pump first.
while you may not consider this content appropriate, several others have. It's in common currency, and the section in question is properly written.

I'm not (yet) going to revert your change myself (but I suspect someone else may). Can I ask you to reconsider? Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter 10:42, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hey Jengod :) Point about "Santorum", was listed on VfD so by our deletion policy can be immediately deleted. Just thought I'd let you know in case you were wondering :) Dysprosia 09:32, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Jengod, Good job on the Thanksgiving article. It is worded much better now. Noldoaran 03:33, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)

For future reference: you can sign your talk page messages by writing "~~~~" and Wikipedia will automaticly expand it into your user name and time stamp. see How to edit a page.

You may want to take a look at What is a minor edit? When should I use it?, and rethink your use of minor edits.

Good job! Keep up the good work! If you have any questions feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Noldoaran 03:57, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)

You'll probably like Gulf of Sidra incident (1989), since you liked Gulf of Sidra incident (1981). Thought I might as well take care of both at the same time.:) Jamesday 03:26, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

My apologies, it's just irritating the sheer number of American articles that just assume the country (Brits are the next worst offenders, but a long, long way behind). Trouble is, it's too easy to be snide on line. Sorry again, jimfbleak

I noticed you moved 'Salem's Lot to Salem's Lot. I put it where it originally was because the name of the book does have a ' at the start, and would be the correct title (as mentioned in the article, the ' is there because it is a shortening of the town's name). I didn't have it as such in the article because it didn't work with the bold and italics. I think it would be best if you moved it back there for the sake of accuracy to the book's name. Thanks in advance. -- sofa

Holidays

Sorry Jengod... I had to remove you POVs and sillies from your recent changes. I wanted to say I like your sense of humor. *grins* No hard feelings? UtherSRG 05:07, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Ah... But in British English we tend to use US and UK. Saying U.K. seems old fashioned... However the article on the US should use US abbreviations. :)Secretlondon 19:29, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the edits on swing state--there was some stuff in there that I hadn't learned, and the links are very useful. But the general rule is, if you change actual words in any but the most innocuous way--i.e., if the meaning could be said to have changed--you can't mark an edit as minor. I did appreciate your help, though--that article needed some sort of list, and I couldn't figure out how to incorporate it. Just watch out on the use of the minor edit box. Meelar 18:13, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

This is a perfect example. Adding an external link to a page -- or any text -- is NOT a minor edit, since it changes the content of a page. Please keep this in mind in the future. Meelar 01:28, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the link on Oak Island on the Newport Tower page. It was refreshing to have someone jump in.Decumanus 04:45, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for adding Phillis Wheatley to Poetry of the United States. My ignorance of U.S. colonial poetry is terrifyingly deep and I had never heard of her. I'll certainly pursue here work now. Bmills 11:06, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I've been reading this. It's incredible how a slave of the time got to be so much the mistress of the "master's" poetic idiom. Thanks for putting me on to her, and thanks for the kind comment on the US poetry page. Bmills 11:39, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

UC "series"

I disagree with adding a series box to the UC articles. They don't follow any chronological order. The listing at the bottom is more in line with what is done for EU countries. --Jia ng 01:53, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

What are you doing to find the other series articles? I don't remember what I searched for, but I know I had to browse over a hundred search results to get the apparently very incomplete list I had made. Just curious...Tuf-Kat 03:14, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Is there any reason you blanked Wikipedia:Reader's Choice? If you want it deleted, you should really list it on VfD. Angela . 05:29, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to use the summary window when you make major changes to articles? Also, in Upper Midwest you deleted a valid definition and replaced it with what I assume was the top result from Google. Davodd 08:29, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Coral trees

Well, I`m no botanist either, but I've done my best. It's one of those tricky cases where gardeners use the genus name as a common name, but they don't mean to include all the genus. I thought there were only a few of these things till I started looking on the web... 128 species on LegumeNet! I hope we've managed between us to give an entry that will be helpful both to gardeners and to botanists.

Where is "round here" for you? And do you know what species you have got? If you could get a picture and load it up, that would be great. seglea 06:25, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yes, you're right. I was being a bit brusque. As he explained to me after he blanked out the background of Donald Rumsfeld and I asked him why, he believes having flags in the portrait is POV. I just think that was a ridiculous conlusion to make. What he did to the Warren Christopher image was, IMO, a net loss and completely unnecessary. My comments expressed my irritation towards the matter. --Jia ng 10:01, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)