User talk:Crawiki

Hello, Crawiki, and 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 {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:56, 22 August 2017 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines 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 • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Wye Valley

Thanks for your edits - but please be aware that you should only add information that is supported by reliable, published sources that can be verified. Unsourced material can be, and often is, removed. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:56, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Historic recurrence, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. I note that you did this twice, adding it again after you were reverted. Doug Weller talk 13:22, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Joshua S Goldstein

The article Joshua S Goldstein has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 11:10, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on User talk:KGirlTrucker81 were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved. In the future you can use the "New section" link in the top right. For more details see the talk page guidelines. Thank you. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 14:23, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

"Historic recurrence"

Crawiki, on 30 August 2017 you added some interesting items to the "Historic recurrence" Quotations section. Omnipaedista has deleted them on the ground that sources were not provided. (Where you did provide sources for your contributions to the Similarities section, they have not been removed.)

Could you copy-and-paste your Quotations back in, giving sources for them?

Thanks. Nihil novi (talk) 07:55, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

You can find your contributions by clicking on the "Historic recurrence" View history function at the top of the article. You can then make changes to the article by first clicking on the Edit function at the top of the page.

The procedures take a little getting used to, but they are logical and readily learned by imitating how others have used them.

Let me know if you have further questions. Good luck!

Nihil novi (talk) 08:32, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia is pretty adamant about sources having to be given. (Otherwise, contributors could write whatever they liked.)

I have had new articles of mine tagged for deletion the same day I started them. I've generally managed to rescue them, and they flourish to this day, years later! Don't get discouraged: you are contributing to the enlightenment of all mankind.

Nihil novi (talk) 09:23, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring your "Historic recurrence" quotations.

Question: How did you come by them? Through source readings? Via searches, e.g. through Google?

Nihil novi (talk) 16:50, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

 {{Help me} yesterday I posted items on the ideology page with references. Today they've been deleted without notifying me why. how can I improve as a contributor if I'm not told where I've gone wrong? Crawiki (talk) 14:57, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

I have made a few copyedits to your Eric Hoffer quotations on "Ideology" (q.v.). You have provided precise references for them, so I am hopeful that some overzealous or misguided editor won't delete them.

In your 11 September 2017 quotations, you don't seem to have provided sources beyond author: probably a factor in their deletion.

I suggest that you consistently sign yourself "crawiki" rather than "195.194.75.226". A name inspires more confidence than a number.

Also, I suggest you put something, if only a single punctuation mark, on your talk page, in order to remove the red coloring from your user name. The red color is like the proverbial (though factually incorrect) red cloth to a bull.

Best, Nihil novi (talk) 17:38, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

 Restored quotations on historic recurrence; how did I come by them? Through extensive reading during long spells of unemployment. 'If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade' -   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crawiki (talk • contribs) 17:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC) 

You've clearly made good use of your time!

(New paragraphs need to start at the margin, as I do it, to avoid the shaded background.)

Nihil novi (talk) 17:56, 12 September 2017 (UTC)