User talk:JMiall
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[edit] Welcome!
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[edit] Happy Wiki-ing.
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Milford_Everton_FC.jpg
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[edit] Category Link Trick
Thanks for the heads-up on the category thing. So, adding a preceding colon to a category wikilink gives you the link without being put in the category? That's handy. Where'd ya learn that trick? — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 23:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
- Only by making the same mistake myself and checking how the people linking to those pages successfully were doing it, nowt clever. JMiall 23:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Andy Morrell and Gary McSheffrey
First have you seen either of these play? If so you would not doubt that Andy Morrell alleges to be a professional footballer and Gary McSheffrey is greedy. I will however find an article to back up this greed as I know there are plenty kicking around. Asmith6 13:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you!
Hi JMiall, thanks for all your comments on the Gilberto Silva article. It's going to take me some time to address all your suggestions - so I'll get started straight away. The only thing I'm uncertain of now is this: how many book references do you think are needed in an article of this size? At the moment there are only two, but I'm pretty sure this isn't enough (especially as there are over forty web references). Guidelines which I've read have only ever said "include print references" - but never how many. What do you think?
Anyway - just that question for now. I'm sure that once I've implemented your suggestions, the article will be much better; so thank you!
All the best, GilbertoSilvaFan 21:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
