User talk:Monegasque

Hello Monegasque! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ruhrfisch 00:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Source Question

Thanks for adding ethnicity facts to so many county articles - can you please provide citations for what you add? Thanks, Ruhrfisch 00:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the detailed reply. I saw your change to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and the Population section there has 8 or 9 references, which makes assumptions about your source somewhat confusing. I realize you didn't write it, but the sentence before your new one starts with "According to the US Census", but the ref cited at the end of the sentence before yours is to the MLA. When I looked at the reference to the Quick Facts here I didn't see the info you provided there (although I don't doubt that it is there). Long story short, it is always safe to cite (and please ask if you need help with citing). I would definitely cite the specific source (not just Census Bureau) when there is any doubt possible (as in Lancaster Co.). I have not looked at your other edits, it may well be some of them are are OK as they are simpler situations, but it would still be safer to cite. Thanks for adding this info, Ruhrfisch 03:43, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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I have the same question for Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties in Maine - the first few paragraphs of the Demographics section are on data from the federal census of 2000. However since I couldn't find this ancestry data in the 2000 federal census, I have moved the ancestry data to the end of the section pending confirmation. Verifiability is obviously key in editing demographic data. Please consider replying here. Thank you.--Chrisbak 20:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply - I found the ancestry data for the 2000 Census (census.gov) in the "SF 3" section. It is interesting data, however right now an editor could be absolutely baffled by where you got your percentages from. Therefore I would probably have said something like this: "Ancestry reported out of 125% (multiple answers were allowed) was: ..." followed by percentages from census.gov. Also I might have placed my edit with the information from the "Social characteristics" section, rather than the data from "General Characteristics". However ask any questions you have at Editor Assistance - simply click "Request Assistance" and someone will reply. The editors who reply there are very willing to help new editors.--Chrisbak 22:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I tried to find the information using your description on User talk:Chrisbak but could not (I'm tired, so more dense). Since it is not trivial to find, I think you must cite the actual webpage you get it from (please). You can either do this as a link: [1] or using <ref> tages or even {{Cite web}} in side a ref. Otherwise there are going to be other editors who revert it or vandals will change it and no one will know where to look for the original data. Ruhrfisch 03:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

First I did verify the Census Bureau reported ancestry data by county. It's in the table "Social Characteristics" at the end, titled "Ancestry (single and multiple)". Since apparently multiple choices were allowed, the Census Bureau percentages - based on population - totaled more than 100%. That's the data I posted above that I would have used - without trying to be critical or "supervisory". Also this was what Moneqasque posted on my talk page about where the data came from - note it's apparently based on "first ancestry reported":

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This is how you´ll find the Census 2000 data for ancestry: Go to American Fact Finder. Select "Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF3) - Sample Data." Select "List all tables". Select "PCT 16 Ancestry (First Ancestry Reported)". That´s where the ancestry data comes from. I simply did the percentage math and placed in the article only those figures which were at least 5%.

_________________________ Posted by--Chrisbak 20:52, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Ambiguous links

Hello. Thank you for your recent edit to Aroostook County, Maine. Your edit included links to the pages American, English, and French, which are disambiguation pages. This type of page is intended to direct users to more specific topics. Ordinarily we try to avoid creating links to disambiguation pages, since it is preferable to link directly to the specific topic relevant to the context. You can help Wikipedia by revising the links you added to Aroostook County, Maine to refer directly to the most relevant topic. (This message was generated by an automatic process; if you believe it to be in error, please accept our apologies and report the error to help us improve this feature.) --Russ (talk) 06:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi! This is a "me too" message :) for the stats on people of "Irish" ancestry. The link Irish also leads to a disambiguation page. I think it would be better to use [[Irish American|Irish]] instead. Keep up the good work though! Gil Gamesh 12:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Since I asked you nicely to be more careful about the creation of ambiguous links, I see that you have continued adding such links to dozens of pages. I am therefore asking you more strongly to correct your own links when editing pages. Your failure to do so creates more work for me and other editors, and is (at a minimum) impolite and inconsiderate. --Russ (talk) 21:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Zimbabwe-related articles

Please stop adding so many links. Your intentions are good, but linking to the same article more than once per paragraph is excessive. Perspicacite 05:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

thank you by imbert barrera wikification

have a nice day.