User talk:Davidoff

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I caught your discussion with Inshaneee and thought you would like this[1]. Contact me if you need to, Yanksox 03:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry, alot of what happens in Wiki is complicated. I'm not too solid on copy-vio, when the creating author consents. I think you'll need to contact someone and just prove it is your original intellucutal property. You should wait for Shane's response, he will probably know. Yanksox 04:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The easier way if you are the author of the website from which this was extracted is to make the content of the website under GDFL licence, clearly visible on the web pages, and mention that on the discussion page of the article. Equendil Talk 04:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Forgot my manners - Welcome aboard

First, you're welcome (reply to my talk page), and below's the mandatory and standard welcome to wikipedia :)

Welcome!

Hello, Davidoff, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Equendil Talk 04:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I have replied on my talk page, from now on, I'll assume you're keeping an eye on my talk page if you leave a message there (which you seem to do already, just making sure). I'm unsure whether you've found out about the watch feature, so check Help:Watching pages if you haven't (or just find the 'watch' link on top of every page, and "my watchlist" on top of the screen). Equendil Talk 05:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC) Questions replied on my talk page, was away for a while :) Equendil Talk 15:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. You have posted your thoughts to the AfD page, which was the right thing to do. I stand by my position though. The article will be either kept or moved to Wikibooks (which is where instruction manuals belong) by community consensus within seven days. Thanks for your contribution to Wikipedia, in any event. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Backgammon Chouette

Thanks for being so pleasant during the AfD process. The article looks pretty good now, thanks to your edits and moving content to Wikibooks, and I've changed my AfD comments to vote "keep." Now that you've written a detailed section on -part- of Backgammon at Wikibooks, you'll probably find that more people start adding to the rest of that article. Adding detail to one section tends to spur people to add to the incomplete parts. Thanks, and good luck! -- Docether 13:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External link in Backgammon

It's listed in the 'References' section, do we need it twice? —ptk✰fgs 03:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

the reference section is a given for the sources the information is taken from. i think that most people actually look at the external links to find quality sites and most people would use them rather then the references links. Regardless it is a great site and i recommend leaving it their unless other wikipedians see it as an eyesore. the important thing here is that this is a great resource which is what wiki is prouding it self with when placing links on the articles Davidoff 03:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] redtopbg.com and WP:RS

Unless I am mistaken, you are the webmaster of redtopbg.com. [2] [3] [4]. I am highly concerned that this site does not meet the guidelines for self-published sources, particularly because there is no author or date listed on any of the articles, and the only secondary sources of information I can find about "red top" and "backgammon" do not discuss the articles at the web site.

This is currently our reference for an incident at a backgammon tournament in Oregon that was allegedly raided. I can find no independent corroboration for this event. It also asserts that Paul Magriel appeared as an expert witness in the resulting trial. I can find no independent corroboration for this event.

Until we can establish this website as a reliable source of information about backgammon, I would like to ask you to refrain from citing any additional references to the site.

Thank you for your time. —ptk✰fgs 05:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I was not involved in the chouette AFD. —ptk✰fgs 12:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the interest in the Foreign Exchange article. I would love to see it as a featured article. But I do have concerns about directions that the article sometimes goes off in. 1st there are a lot of companies that try to use this as an advertising page. Even worse - what they advertise (often indirectly) is trading services for retail forex, which is almost entirely a rip off business. The forex markets are extremely important in business and economics. The 2% of the market that is retail wants to take over the whole page. 90% of their customers lose, (see forex scam) and they approach it as a pure gambling casino. There are enough of those on-line already. I'll be out-of-touch for several days, but feel free to show me (in the article) what you want to do. And when I get back, I'll feel free to delete a bunch if it heads off into spam-land. Thanks for your understanding. Smallbones 15:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bergen County, New Jersey Education table

I wanted to pass on some of my thoughts regarding the table of public school information that you added to the Bergen County, New Jersey article, especially given that I have done a significant volume of work on municipal, school district and high school articles in the county, and have done extensive research on school performance and finance statistics. I have also porovide links to the NJ Monthly rankings for the top 75 high schools (so far; see User:Alansohn/TopSchools). While it does provide a tremendous amount of information regarding districts, it only includes ten of the county's 70+ school districts, with no explanation of why these ten were selcted or how to get information regarding the other 60+ districts. Additionally, no source is indicated and there is no explanation of some the fields (e.g., town score or educational index). Some of the numbers also appear questionable; enrollment data seems rounded in many cases; Teaneck's spending per pupil seems way low. I know this all sounds like I'm just being negative, but I'm not sure how this could be improved within the county article. I'm wondering if this might merit shifting this data to a separate article "Public Education in Bergen County, New Jersey" that would include more complete details, perhaps by rotating the table so that there is one row for each municipality / school district (rather than one column). I have also been trying to design and implement a school district infobox that would include much of the information that you included in the table and would also include detailed spending statistics and rankings from the NJ Department of Education's Comparative Spending Guide. It truly is a relief to discover that I am not the only person with an interest in this subject in this area, and I would be more than interested in pursuing a collaboration with you on the subject. Alansohn 17:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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