User talk:Drgordonwilkinson

Pittcon editors awards

Hi, I've just come across your article and thought I'd drop you a line. I'm not, by any means, knowledgeable on the subject, but, as far as I can tell, in my capacity as a member of the Guild of copy editors and a new pages patroller everything seems to be in order with the article. I've made a few changes to the structure, most notably, the references. Take a look at how I've done them in that article. rather than simply put square brackets ([]) around a hyperlink, the easiest way to do it is to use the button above the box into which you type on the far right hand side of the panel of buttons (Starting with "B", "I" etc). This generates two tags (), betwen which you type or paste the web address or book title and ISBN. I hope this helped- you and the article- though you may want to check the article to make sure I haven't inadvertently removed anything from it! Any further help you need or anything else I can do, please do drop me a line on my talk page and I'll do my best! Regards, HJMitchell You rang? 13:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi there: Thanks for amending the references - I was able to use this for one new item that needed referencing and three items that you missed (not that I am complaining!) . Although I have been writing professionally for 40 years, this was my first Wiki contribution so it is taking a little while to learn the formatting. I'm grateful for your help. Dr Gordon Wilkinson 20:16, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for getting in touch. It was a while ago and, to be honest, I'd pretty much forgotten about that! I have a tendency to wander around Wikipedia aimlessly! It can take a while to get to grips with some of the format. You can always try fiddling with some of the buttons and seeing what they do- just don't press "save" or create yourself a sandbox. Hopefully we'll see each other around in future. Any questions, just yell!

By the way, the templates only show up inside {{}} (eg. {{tb|HJ Mitchell}} or, in your case, {{tb|Drgordonwilkinson}}. I'll try and keep an eye on that article in future (in case it gets vandalised or nominated for deletion or something). Kind regards, HJMitchell You rang? 14:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

March 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Time-of-flight mass spectrometry do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. See WP:ELNO #4. Kkmurray (talk) 02:53, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hi. I've removed a paragraph from Pittcon Editors' Awards. Three things:

• You seem to have a conflict of interest regarding this article. Please read our guideline on such matters, WP:COI.
• Wikipedia is not the right place to promote your event.
• It's a bad idea to post people's email addresses on a public site such as Wikipedia. If trawled by a spambot, they'll get a whole load of junk mail.

Brammers (talk/c) 18:07, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

re Conflict of Interest - I founded the awards in 1996 and, as a voluntary service to the laboratory equipment industry, I update the file each year to let people know about the latest innovations in scientific instruments, as judged by experienced editors and journalists attending this particular event, the largest in terms of exhibitors and attendees. I have no intention of promoting Pittcon as an event - the objective is simply to keep people up to date with new product innovations. Dr Gordon Wilkinson 13:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC)