User talk:McGeddon

Avocado

Someone keeps putting references to ostriches on the Avocado page, but the IP address isn't the same so it would be hard to track down.

English words with uncommon properties

I noticed that you rightfully revered an edit on English words with uncommon properties with going berserk (which I would have), so wanted to ask your opinion on the small effort I did to add list pages of the words actually in wiktionary that score highly. Nobody has expressed interest in it, so I take it that it is useless to the community despite actually being objective and I am not sure if to delete the modifications or to improve the program (removal of abbreviations) and finish it. What do you think about it? Thanks --Squidonius (talk) 22:49, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Concerning the deletion of an External Link in the page Short story

An external link added to the article Short story was deleted. I disagree completely. The link would add much knowledge on short fiction to the interested wikipedians. It is a master's thesis by José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The thesis adviser was professor Thomas LaBorie Burns, PhD. Much of the information in the article was taken from this thesis, therefore it does deserve to be in the list of External Links from the article.

FYI

I opened an AfD regarding an article you tagged, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Short-short story‎. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:21, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the info about the Reference Desk

Since I seem to be messing things up more than helping, I think I will stick to just reading Wikipedia and gaining knowledge out of it. If I used the Reference Desk in asking questions they would probably consider me bothersome--so I won't. Anyway, thanks for the advice. Sincerely--Rujacgeh (talk) 01:26, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

heat shrink

HI,

First off, I apologize for not logging in when I reverted to a previous version of this page.

On September 23, 2009, "Shaddack" re-wrote this page, citing several pages on buyheatshrink.com as sources for the information. Shaddack has never, nor does he/she currently represent buyheatshrink.com.

Over the past 8 months, both you and "SpinningSpark" have made many modifications to the page and left the footnotes and citations to buyheatshrink.com on the page. Now, all of a sudden, it's considered "blatantly commercial reference sources". I assure you that we did not solicit any links to our site within wikipedia.

That being said, if somebody takes information from a source to make a page on wikipedia better, isn't it only right to give "credit" to the source?

The current page even says now:

"This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2010)"

I personally have spent countless hours researching and writing the text on our website. As the owner of buyheatshrink.com, I'd appreciate it if you're going to use our information that we get the credit for it.

I've posted this same text on spinningspark's talk page as well.

Best, Marc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buyheatshrink (talk • contribs) 18:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I have opened a thread at Talk:Heat-shrink tubing#Commercial links which is where this discussion should take place so all interested editors can take part. SpinningSpark 20:24, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Tim Tams

No, this is the first I've mentioned it outside of the group of people who were actually there at the time. So I have a question. How verifiable does such an unimportant thing have to be? I clearly remember it, but I have no idea how many others do. It seems to me that this is how information like this gets lost when those that remember things themselves are not allowed to tell their story. Julianelischer (talk) 16:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Synthetic telepathy

Please do not revert edits citing "original research", I've written the entire 90% of the article at present. I am gathering the references for that particular sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.241.179 (talk) 11:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

McGeddon, I do admire your patience, but it may be best to just let the AfD run its course rather than trying to respond to spurious personal attacks from someone using an ever-changing anonymous IP address. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Good call. See you around, hopefully on happier days. GDallimore (Talk) 21:51, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Sampling

Oh great God of Wikipedia, I pray to you to stop removing what is (I believe) a proper addition to the article "Cheating".

Sampling is a new term for the above mentioned... the article addition provides (or at least it did until you took it down) a summary of the idea as well as a citation.

No COI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Romaine5 (talk • contribs) 20:26, 26 May 2010 (UTC) - Hi yes i was aware that wiki pages aren't meant for discussions and should be properly editied and proof read rather than just make a horrible looking blemish on the page like i did but i'm new to wiki editing(not reading though!) so i didn't really know how to handle it but i am glad you told me exactly how to handle the situation.

- Another quiery i have which i may or may not have entered somewhere on the site(I FORGET) is that there is an actress on both wiki and imdb and she has 2 seperate pages as 2 seperate actresses..... the name is Laura Allen/ Laura Harris so if you know how to merge the pages that would be great, otherwise i feel the process to be too tiresome —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinner458 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Twist Ending Contribution

Hi yes i was aware that wiki pages aren't meant for discussions and should be properly editied and proof read rather than just make a horrible looking blemish on the page like i did but i'm new to wiki editing(not reading though!) so i didn't really know how to handle it but i am glad you told me exactly how to handle the situation.

- Another quiery i have which i may or may not have entered somewhere on the site(I FORGET) is that there is an actress on both wiki and imdb and she has 2 seperate pages as 2 seperate actresses..... the name is Laura Allen/ Laura Harris so if you know how to merge the pages that would be great, otherwise i feel the process to be too tiresome —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinner458 (talk • contribs) 20:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

It's okay to center image captions

• Don't revert due to no consensus

There is nothing in the Manual of style or the Wikipedia Policies stating not to center image captions. There is also no rule against centering image captions in Manual of Style - Captions.

Per Manual of Style - Captions:

There are several criteria for a good caption. A good caption

  1. clearly identifies the subject of the picture, without detailing the obvious.
  2. is succinct.
  3. establishes the picture's relevance to the article.
  4. provides context for the picture.
  5. draws the reader into the article.

Different people read articles different ways. Some people start at the top and read each word until the end. Others read the first paragraph and scan through for other interesting information, looking especially at pictures and captions.

Examples of articles centered image captions

Examples of articles centered image captions that I did not center:

• Mount McKinley - First and second image captions are centered
• Yellowstone National Park, same
• Crater Lake National Park, same
• Everglades National Park, same

There is no consensus to leave everything identically in Wikipeida articles, which discourages innovation and improvement. Having to obtain consensus for minor edits that clearly improve article quality isn't in the guidelines or Manual of Style.

Please read:

• Be Bold in editing articles
• Don't revert due to no consensus
• Assume good faith
• Wikilawyering
• Wikipedia:Gaming the system

96.41.164.58 (talk) 06:06, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

T.O.E.

Hi, I'm sorry if what I wrote on the Theory of Everything page struck you as offensive/vandalism. That doesn't really sound like something I would do, and if you were offended I am genuinely sorry because that is not what I meant to do at all, I was just trying to contribute to this wonderful website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.195.6.206 (talk) 09:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok now, it's common knowledge that wikimods sit at their computer waiting for comments n such like this, and have no outside life, and read these within seconds of them being posted, so why aren't you replying? making yourself look like you have a life by not replying right away isn't gonna work, you're a f****ng wikimod dude, you do not have a life, I'd be willing to bet money on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.195.6.206 (talk) 09:58, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Jusst in case you don't have it watchlisted....

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