User talk:Profspeak

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your comment at Talk:Suicide of Tyler Clementi. Please feel free to get in touch with me any time if you have any questions at all about editing here. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:19, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fine Writer

You are an excellent writer. I Hope you decide to look into working on more articles and stay with Wikipedia. Please tell me if I can be of any assistance with any technical Wikipedia issue. --Javaweb (talk) 04:46, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

I thought you had to be writing for a living in some capacity. --Javaweb (talk) 13:55, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for changing your edits on the Tyler Clementi page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASuicide_of_Tyler_Clementi&diff=487318227&oldid=487286733 I must confess that I am tired of being accused of bias, and in this case I made great efforts to just take exactly what was presented in the reliable sources. If I didn't succeed, I'm happy to see different summaries.LedRush (talk) 12:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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How to Cite Sources

Example: {{Cite news |work=Star-Ledger |date=April 20, 2011 |author=Star-Ledger Staff |title=Grand jury hands up 15-count indictment against roommate of Tyler Clementi | |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/grand_jury_hands_down_15-count.html |accesdate=May 8,2012}} shows as
Star-Ledger Staff (April 20, 2011). "Grand jury hands up 15-count indictment against roommate of Tyler Clementi". Star-Ledger. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |accesdate= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions. Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia's accuracy and readability. --Javaweb (talk) 14:59, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

Citations

Regarding your questions on citation formats, you can find much of what you need here [1]

Also, as a quick way to do this, you can just look elsewhere in the article for a citation that looks good, and then copy and paste it to where you want it to be, filling in the information for the article you want to cite. Tryptofish is much better at this than I, so he might have better suggestions.LedRush (talk) 15:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(Be still my beating heart!) Anyway, the citation template you are looking for is Template:Cite news. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Now I remember what I have done for other articles. I clicked on "Cite" on the Talk page, filled in the template that pops up, copied it on a "temporary" Talk item, and then pasted it on the edit page. It would be easier if there were a template in the toolbar on the edit page also. Profspeak (talk) 01:12, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New_Jersey_v._Dharun_Ravi article

There is an editing dispute what Ravi did and was indicted for.
Here is my edit:
The charges stemmed from incidents on September 19 and 21, 2010 in which Ravi pointed his webcam at Ravi's college roommate's bed twice during dates and the second time told 150 of his friends how to view it.^[1]

^ Ian Parker, New Yorker "That evening, Ravi also texted with Michelle Huang, a high-school friend who was at Cornell. “I have it pointed at his bed and the monitor is off so he can’t see you,” he wrote. And, “It’s set to automatically accept, I just tested it and it works.” He later added, “be careful it could get nasty,” and “people are having a viewing party.”

LedRush wants "The charges stemmed from incidents on September 19 and 21, 2010 in which Ravi used his webcam to view his college roommate kissing another man and told 150 of his friends how to view it. "

The second viewing and telling "everyone" to watch is what got Mr. Ravi indicted on the invasion of privacy charges. Here are the relevant edits:

As someone who edits the Clementi article, you may want to review this article as well. Readers searching for Ravi will probably find this article so the more reviewers the better. --Javaweb (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

I have warned Javaweb against WP:Canvassing, but seeing as it is likely that you will edit that article anyway, I ask only that you do not bring a WP:Battleground mentality there as it appears that SGMD1 and the other editors working on the article are willing to do so ina collaborative manner. This is a real opportunity to make the editing environment more positive and I hope we can all seize it.LedRush (talk) 16:22, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I already explained this to you but since you are bringing it up again, I need to repeat myself again. I was pretty sure that Tryptofish and ProfSpeak weren't aware that the new, nearly identical article topic page was active since you had not edited there. As one of the only 2 active editors I knew of on the nearly identical Clementi page not editing the Trial page, I contacted both of them directly. I was concerned that just writing to the Talk page with all of its voluminous text would not get their attention as much as writing to their pages and they would not be aware that an nearly identical article had been published. --Javaweb (talk) 21:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

Quotations

You probably read "Eats Shoots & Leaves." The English author's book said punctuation inside quotations was appalling. When her book was edited for US readers, that part of the book was changed. --Javaweb (talk) 17:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb[reply]

Reversion on Trial Article

Profspeak, in this edit [2], you reverted many edits of mine, including re-adding the POV tag, reintroducing grammatical mistakes, and making other changes with which you might not agree. Would you mind self-reverting and then making only the specific edits you want to make? If you are worried that it is too difficult to get to the version of the article you like, you can click on the version of the article before I edited, and then hit the edit button. You can then copy any section that I touched that you disagree with and paste that into the current version of the article. If you have any issues, I'd be happy to help.

If you intended to make all these changes, also please let me know because there are several non-controversial ones that I will tackle before discussing the bigger issues.LedRush (talk) 21:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Profspeak!LedRush (talk) 19:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Ian Parker, New Yorker "That evening, Ravi also texted with Michelle Huang, a high-school friend who was at Cornell. “I have it pointed at his bed and the monitor is off so he can’t see you,” he wrote. And, “It’s set to automatically accept, I just tested it and it works.” He later added, “be careful it could get nasty,” and “people are having a viewing party.”

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