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Hello Guest818! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! UtherSRG (talk) 12:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] USC Talamban pic

Hi! Can I use your University of San Carlos Talamban picture in the University of San Carlos article? How to use it since it is in Netherlands version. Please help. What other pictures do you have of Cebu and Bohol?--Guest818 04:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I have uploaded the picture to commons, using the same name. This means you can just include it in the article by using [[Image:University of San Carlos Talamban.jpg]]. I have many photos available of Cebu and Bohol. A couple of them are already uploaded to either the Netherlands version or commons. You can find them on this page. When the picture is on the Dutch wikipedia, you just have to upload it to commons. All of them are Public Domain, as far as I remember. Magalhães 15:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you...I did try to do that, but it did not seem to work. Thanks for all the pictures.--Guest818 17:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] do I know you?

I hope you don't mind me asking, but you do not happen to live (or used to live) in San Francisco and are about 42 years old? I did meet somebody from Philippine origin living there about three years ago, when I was on holiday in the Philippines in 2003 and I see that you live in California... Anyway, the changes are enormously small ofcourse... Magalhães 20:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

No, that wouldn't be me. Filipinos are all over the place, though. --Guest818 23:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for the barnstar

Wow, thank you. I'm glad to have been able to provide what little assistance I have, and of course I'll be happy to help any time. Thank you for your recognition. It is much appreciated. SWAdair 00:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi again! I was fixing my userbox today, and only noticed your fixing it. Thank you! Indeed, the barnstar is well-deserved by you, with all the extra attention on my "neopedia" activities, including the nitty gritty! I've been getting side-tracked with little articles/ stubs, I haven't done really much with the early ones I was working on, like HNU and the other SVD Schools. But it will be good to get your expert and honest opinion on the ones I've worked on or contributed, especially the: Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Philippine Tarsier, Chocolate Hills. Best regards! --Guest818 10:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

You humble me. You have done a truly amazing amount of work creating and fleshing out these articles. All I do is come along and do some MOS tweaking, things that you are rapidly learning on your own. You are the one who deserves the Philippine Barnstar, not I. I have to go offline for the day, but I wanted to let you know I just finished going over Philippine Tarsier Foundation. What wonderful creatures, and what a great article. I look forward to having the time to peruse the other articles you've been working on. Happy editing! SWAdair 11:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks for your edits on the Philippine Tarsier Foundation. I am not too keen on the "standards" yet. It's good to have somebody double check. Unlike the other articles, there are only few editors on this article. If there are still other things you think I can improve, especially on the content, that will be good too. Best regards.--Guest818 05:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paraphrasing

You said "If there are still other things you think I can improve, especially on the content, that will be good too." Hmm... there is one area that I see could use a bit of work -- paraphrasing. Although you aren't lifting large sections of text from other websites I noticed that almost every time you add a reference, you copy verbatim a small section of text from that reference. That is cutting it very close to the legal line on copyright and fair use issues. It might be a good idea to reword things so that you paraphrase the reference rather than quoting it. Wikipedia:Copyright#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others and Wikipedia:Fair use#Text explain the extreme limits of what is allowed, but it would be best to stand far back from the extreme limit.

For example, in Chocolate Hills where it says "The world-renowned cone-shaped Chocolate Hills is Nature's expression of beauty, mystery and romance. Unique in the world, the Chocolate Hills is the province's signature attraction" you might instead write "The beautiful, romantic Chocolate Hills are the province's main attraction. There is no natural formation like them in the world." Not as flowery, but at least it contains the same information but in different (i.e. legally safe) words. In fact, the fewer superlatives, the better for an encyclopedia article. It might be best to call them either beautiful or romantic, but not both together -- at least for the article. Other than paraphrasing, I think you're doing a fantastic job. From the amount of time and effort you are putting into these articles it is clear that you enjoy improving them. Your enthusiasm shows in your work. SWAdair 07:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chocolate Hills

Hi! My appreciation for your expertise. I am overhauling the article. --Guest818 02:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)