User talk:Berean Hunter

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⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕))

Cornwell

I agreed with your edit to take Cornwell's mention off of the main Jack the Ripper page, though I stuck it back on the "additional reading" list. I think because of its fame and its claims it should be on the main page, even though I agree with you, it is 95% patent crap and bad historical research. Some of her leaps are just outright nutty. And since you seem to edit the Ripper page often, I did some edits to the pages of the three letters (Saucy, Boss, Hell) last week, moving stuff around, adding cites, etc. I also spruced up the Jack the Ripper page on Wikimedia Commons.

TuckerResearch (talk) 02:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's fine..you're probably right that it should get mention somewhere. My edit summary was a response to the inference from the IP about the quality of Cornwell's evidence. I also thought it was one of the regular editors having a bit of fun to see who would be the first to toss it out and what they would say ;) Whoever it was knew that the response would be lively.

I thought I had the Ripper letters in my watchlist..I know I had read them. Thanks for pointing that out. Cheers, ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 03:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Article creation

Hi again, I simply write it in Microsoft Word complete with [[ ]] and whatever else and then just paste it in to the blank page. Is that any help? Jack1956 (talk) 21:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

*This* is what is happening to me (or at least I see a problem with no word wrap). If you don't see a problem then I'll know it is something with my browser. All that I'm doing is cutting & pasting myself but it turns out to be quite the mess. Please disregard the state of the article..it is a long way from ready. Working on it as we speak. Thanks for helping me..⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 21:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I finally cut & paste into an email that I sent to myself. Once I cut & paste from the email I received, I was able to paste into the Wikipedia edit block and get it to format properly. A bit awkward and I'm sure there's a better answer but it worked. Just experimenting and getting a bit ahead of myself..the article needs a lot of work yet. Thank you for helping.

Your talk page is getting to be huge. Have you thought about setting up an archive? ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 03:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

The very short answer to setting up yours would be placing this somewhere on your talk page:

{{archive box|auto=yes}}

{{User:MiszaBot/config

|maxarchivesize = 200K

|counter = 1

|algo = old(7d)

|minthreadsleft = 10

|archive = User talk:Jack1956/Archive %(counter)d

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That would default to leaving 10 threads on your page unless you have a very large number of threads during a single week. The main article is here and the article for configuring Miszabot to your liking is here. If you set this up today, you could expect to see Miszabot III archive your page shortly before 1 pm your local time. The archive link will be red until the bot creates the page(s) for you. In your case, it might be plural. Wikipedia might break...8^D Cheers, ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 03:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

New addition

Thanks for your kind words...I certainly will put up some pics. Came as a bit of a shock, though; thought of myself as too young to be a grandad at 52! Jack1956 (talk) 12:39, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Annie Chapman alive photo

Hi BH, what evidence is there that the Chapman family are upset about the uploading of the wedding photo? Are they more upset about it than, say, the mortuary photo? Ta Dreamspy (talk) 18:30, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Good point!⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 18:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Gene Odom

Berean Hunter, My name is Billy. I am a friend of Gene Odom. I also manage his websites. I have been trying to get some of Gene's story out to all the Lynyrd Skynyrd fans. As you can see I have been having problems. I will try to get Pete Stevenson to correct my mistakes.

Thank you for your patience,

Billy Webb —Preceding unsigned comment added by BW2417 (talk • contribs) 09:13, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Billy,

Thank you for responding. I'm glad you did. Everyone is welcome to edit including Pete & yourself.

Things aren't as bad as they might seem. With some reading and simply changing your approach they will probably straighten out quickly. Rather than introducing links to Gene's website, the focus should be to consider the value of Gene's books as sources to either support or offer alternative views to the text content of the articles. Currently, a template at the top of the Lynyrd Skynyrd article bears the notice that the article needs citations...and throughout the article there are many of these "^{[citation needed]}". If Gene's book happens to address any of those issues or if there are facts that are worthwhile & interesting that would add value to the Wikipedia article (or other relevant articles) then his book would make a good candidate as a reference.

Bear in mind that Wikipedia frowns on commercial promotion. Simply dropping in external links that is designed to steer readers to a website is certainly viewed as spamming by regular editors (me too) who see it all the time and we generally don't think twice about removing it. Reintroducing the links will only make matters worse because the editing community (with which one hopes will accept the edits) may take a firmer set against the spammer. It could lead to the website being *blacklisted* in which case the server would simply refuse attempts at adding it.

This *article* can help you learn about writing citations...and here are some *examples* for you to compare.

Feel free to try writing citations in The Sandbox. You can experiment there. Usually, it isn't a good idea to experiment within articles. Also feel free to ask questions..I have to go for now but can try to help you later. Have fun editing, ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 17:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Berean Hunter, Pete will be back from vacation on Friday. I will talk to him so he can make the proper edits and additions On the Gene Odom section.

Thanks,

Billy