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Don't mind if I do look around.
I have been having lots of fun here already. I appreciate the fact that people are so civil here.
Yes, there are several ways to track the contributions of individual users. One is to navigate to their user page, whih is written with "User:" before their name ( User:Draeco in my case). From there, you can click on the "User contributions" link in the second menu on the right-hand side of the page. This shows you all of the user's contributions in chronological order. You can also see a breakdown of users' editing behavior by going to interiot's or kate's tool and typing in a username; here is your breakdown for instance. Thanks for the question. - Draeco 02:59, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
You are welcome. And If I may ask, is there a way to report vandals and trolls? Piercetp
Hi, I noticed your involvement with KWU in academic life and editing on wikipedia. Wikipedia actually discourages users from editting articles they are personally invovled with.
Your recent changes, such as the adding/reverting to include "erroneously" [1] is POV. Wikipedia is not in a position to say it is not or it is a diploma mill. Thus, say what the school is according to critics and the school.
Also on the talk page you incorrectly said sources don't go in the body of the article. Yet, they do because they work as citations to back up a particular fact in a sentence. However, if you do not want a link in the body you can use the footnote template and put the link at the bottom with the corresponding footnote number in the sentence.
As for my recent changes there is a particular template for unaccredited schools and I modified the article accordingly.
Lastly, if you use four tildas in signing your name you will include the date with your signature, which makes it easier to tell who said what and when.
I just wanted to bring these to your attention. Happy editting. Arbusto 10:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Piercetp! Wikifying means making articles conform to the Wikipedia:Guide to layout and the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. It's things like providing links (like that) and bolding the person's name and putting their dates in the right way (1901-1910). All that kinda stuff! The tag isn't in anyway a warning or an insult to you - it's a suggestion that you might like to make the changes required, but if not the team who do clean-up will do it - the "wikify" tag adds the article to a list where someone will see it and get to work on it.
Take a look at the Wikipedia:Guide to layout and the Wikipedia:Manual of Style if you'd like: they're long documents but very interesting and there's always something good to be found in them. Hope this helps! ➨ ❝ R E DVERS ❞ 20:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Regards, simonthebold 20:06, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I've added a section in the main mortgage article in the apropriate position with a link to the article you started. Also, I've rewritten the first paragraph to adjust to NPOV. The article still needs work. If you compare the old and new version you will see change in style which I believe demonstrates a change to NPOV. simonthebold 08:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you, what a nice comment [2] -- Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
To the best of my knowledge, the "rule" against editing topics about which you are personally involved could only be found at WP:NPOV, under the Bias section here. There is no longer any mention of that rule; it must have been edited out some time ago. The WP:NPOV page is really dynamic, averaging several edits per day by a wide variety of users, and I don't have the time to search through the edit history to find it -- sorry, but I'm really busy right now.
In my opinion, that "rule" needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I think it originated from WP:AFD where counter-vandalism hawks were trying to curb endless non-notable articles written about bands/websites/individuals by their lead singers/webmasters/autobiographers. In practice, as long as you're a conscentious editor who practices NPOV, you should be able to edit any article, even perhaps your autobiography. To incriminate myself, I created and wrote most of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce article even though I'm currently a student there, and I don't lose any sleep. - Draeco 15:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Piercetp. Saw your edits to Tetsuo. Did you know there is a template for IMDb titles? Jonathan F 19:51, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I have edited three of your articles today, to the extent that I added a category to them. You seem to have tried to do this in article Alexandr Hackenschmied but the syntax was wrong. Also your article spells his name differently than in the article Maya Deren, to which I have linked it. Hope this helps -- Yendor1958 15:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
For your information, I speedy deleted the article 2005 Chicago Bears, which you created at about 09:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC), for the following reasons:
Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Could you connect the Filthy Thirteen article to a certain war, like WWII perhaps? I'm not familiar with them, but as the article stands right now they sound like some perpetual part of the United States Army, and I don't think that's the meaning intended. - Draeco 00:08, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
This article has been flagged for a lack of inline citations. The only external link is to the book by Mr. Mcniece. I was curious if the book was the source of your interest in the subject or if you learned of the Filthy Thirteen through other sources? Thanks for whatever light you can shed on this interesting group. Tkech ( talk) 15:37, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Where did you read about the third party resolution? I'm very curious about this. -- P-Chan 01:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I can't locate the 2nd party in the dispute on Talk:Crimean War. Please read my message on the talk page. (Note: please keep all further messages on Talk:Crimean War. Eagle talk 05:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Ghirlandajo is already involved in a mediation. There have been numerous failed attempts to mediate with Ghirlandajo. There has already been an RFC filed against him at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ghirlandajo.
At this point I feel we have exhausted all our alternatives and I recommend you file a Request for Arbitration against him. I will be happy to assist you in this process should you choose to do so. (you can reply here, I'll watchlist you) Ideogram 19:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I must withdraw my recommendation that you file an RFAR against him. Apparently the situation is highly politically charged; he is much loved by the Russians on this site and filing an RFAR is likely to ignite a prolonged, bloody conflict between them and the Polish, the Germans, the Ukrainians, and many other groups that have historical grievances against the Russians. (watchlisted you) Ideogram 05:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm mediating Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-20 Crimean war. I'm contacting all parties, feel free to make a comprimise and/or provide diffs. Computerjoe 's talk 18:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
You have mentioned on talk page Talk:Velvet Revolution, that you have own pictures for the article. It would be nice if you could upload them to commons: -- Li-sung 20:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
You asked if there were a definition of the term "low quality links", regarding external links. I don't know if there's a precise definition, but this wikipedia guideline article talks about the topic: Wikipedia:External_links -- Xyzzyplugh 14:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Since this is my own user talk I though I would take the opportunity to say that. I am not joking either. Everyone should go there! Piercetp 02:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Piercetp. I found your name on the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians on Meta, and thought that you might care about the issue discussed on the page: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia enough to help us fight it with a vote. Thanks! Smeira 11:20, 3 jan 2008.
Hi, I just undid your link-fixing edit on the ACU page. Confusing as it sounds, the link you added is to a fake fake university - its a different diploma mill, and all its forms are directed to yet-another diploma mill. I posted some more details a long while back, now archived: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:American_Central_University/Archive_June_2008 (look for the 'acuniversity' stuff at the bottom of the page).
It appears that the 'real' ACU is finally defunct, hence the broken link. They're no longer listed as licensed by WY. I'm off to update the page. Bazzargh ( talk) 22:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
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