User talk:Look2See1

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Commencing Note Box-Look2See1 t a l k → 23:32, 29 April 2010 (UTC) REFERENCES and CITATIONS — {{help}} {{helpme}} How references work      Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Look2See1/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Thanks

Thanks for the edit on the recent merge, will help
--George2001hi (talk) 19:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Excellent Contributions

Barnstar

Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding about the layout of Tahrir Square. Looking at your contributions, it looks like you're doing a great job of editing articles about Egypt at a time when many of us want to learn more. 98.246.191.164 (talk) 19:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:Mississippian geology has been nominated for discussion

Category:Mississippian geology, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:55, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Category Caribbean Netherlands

This category which you created is a duplicate of Category:Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and ought to be deleted. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:57, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Laurel Lodged, Please see article Caribbean Netherlands, a new designation in 2010 for only 3 small islands, after the dissolution of the larger Netherlands Antilles. Please note that Category: Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands also has former colonial entities as subcategories, and is neither synonymous nor duplicative with Category: Caribbean Netherlands. Thank you — Look2See1 t a l k → 02:29, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Category query

Hi there. I've seen many of your category edits over a number of months. There are some features of the edits that I see recurring, the purpose of which I'm really not sure of, so I thought I'd ask. The easiest way to ask about some of these might be through an example, so I've just chosen this edit more or less at random because it has some of the features I am wondering about:

1. Indentation of content. For the line that begins, "It occurred and was peacefully resolved ...", there is not one colon mark added for indentation, not two, not three or four, but ten indenting colons added. What is the purpose of this? Why does it need to be intented at all(The same question could be made regarding the four colons added before the {{cat main}} later on.)
2. White space. Your category definition/commentary is then followed by two blank lines and then a {{-}}, adding a considerable amount of white space at the head of the category. This is perhaps not the best example for this particular query. In the past, I have seen you add up to eight or nine blank lines of whitespace in this fashion. What is the purpose of this? Why do we need whitespace at all in the category header? Why do we need to insert a {{-}}?

I appreciate that the reason for these types of edits might be because you subjectively feel that it just looks good. If that's the case, I would suggest that maybe we need to remember that what looks good on Wikipedia on the monitor/device that we use to access the website may not look very good at all when others access the same content on their monitor or device. In particular, I have noticed that the excessive indention can cause problems when users access content on the mobile Wikipedia site. Or maybe there's another reason for these types of edits? I don't know, so I just thought I'd ask. – Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 08:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I also share Good Ol’factory's above concerns, and would very much appreciate your consideration of the issue. Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 02:26, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

I hope our inquiries didn't scare you away. I think we both look forward to hearing from you whenever you're back. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 14:11, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I see you are editing again. When you get a moment, I'd appreciate a response regarding this. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:47, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

I'm not in the business of demanding that users answer me, and I'm not going to do so here. However, it is starting to look like you're ignoring my questions. It would be polite to let me know whether you are going to respond. But if you don't say anything, what option do I have than to involve other users in this issue? Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 04:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, see here if you decide you'd like to respond. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 06:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Nav templates

Hi there! May I ask why you are inserting navigational templates to unrelated articles (example)? Navboxes normally should include links to articles in which they are placed (see WP:BIDIRECTIONAL), but that, of course, is normally on the condition that those articles belong in the navbox in the first place. The scope of the "Administrative divisions" navboxes is to cover, well, administrative divisions, yet you are placing these boxes in articles about physical geography features and nature reserves, which makes no sense. Could you please elaborate what you are doing? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 27, 2016; 16:39 (UTC)

Hello?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 27, 2016; 19:55 (UTC)

From Anna

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Hello, my friend. I know, totally know, you are here to help build this encyclopedia. You have made 173,817 edits! Thank you! You are appreciated. I want you to make another 173,817 edits but worry a little.

I see from your talk archives that you sometimes do things the way you think is right even when others object. You may be right. But you know how it is here. Even when you are right, if a bunch of others object, you simply must abide by community wishes. That is a good thing, right? I want to replace the top-left Wikipedia globe in all articles with a picture of meerkats, but the community (including you, probably) disagrees. Are they and you wrong? Yes! Obviously! But I have to listen to you. Your voice matters.

So please, please, just omit the ::::: and {{-}} and observe the other issues pointed out. Using edit summaries would be great too. Please just stick with whatever is conventional.

And please communicate, if you can. I am friendly. My best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:24, 30 December 2016 (UTC)