User talk:Jeffmcneill

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Aloha fellow Wikipedian! I don't visit here as often as I should, so if you want a faster response, better to use email.

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[edit] Greetings and Welcome

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] More on Editing and Guidelines

  • Citing and quoting is not enough for copyrighted material (we are now in the real of what is legal). If the document was copied in a wholesale fashion from a copywritten source that did not give permission, then this is actually illegal.
  • The guidelines of a Wikipedia article is different from a simple website, as it has a few important features:

The best approach I believe is to find other pages that are similar and learn from them how to format and create content that is Wikipedia-appropriate.

[edit] Wanted (but not yet created) articles

[edit] COM 320 contribution and article pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kellyrice

[edit] Comments regarding specific articles

(from User talk:Quarl) ALoha Quarl, could you clarify your statement on Mark Lalic's User Talk that University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Communications has been deleted (which it hasn't)? I don't see anything in the pages which would provide a reason that it should be deleted (or that it was deleted). Thanks! --Jeffmcneill 21:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Aloha Jeff, I had deleted the article University of Hawaii at Manoa: School of Communications (note the colon), because it was a copy of the iSchool article with some names changed. I suspected it was an aborted attempt to base one article on another, though to an unsophisticated Wikipedia user, in that state it would simply appear as a hoax. The article was subsequently recreated and moved by you to the colon-less name University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Communications, which is why you see the article currently existing and don't see anything in the deletion logs for University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Communications. The relevant log page is [1]. Cheers —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-21 06:56Z

By the way, my guess is that COM320 is a course that involves introducing students to editing Wikipedia. Some of the articles listed here on your talk page are likely to be eventually deleted or at least merged for not being notable enough (the most common new user mistake), so please encourage the students to see WP:N and WP:LOCAL before creating new articles on local topics. Thanks —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-21 06:56Z

[edit] Where The Game Starts

Hello Jeff,
You encounter me a little confused over "Homo Ludens"
"...the version in print is a translation from the German as well as the English version because ...".
The first edition of Homo Ludens -Tjeenk Willink & zoon, Haarlem 1938 is written in the Dutch language =Homo Ludens: Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur
A German translation followed = Homo Ludens. Vom Urspung der Kultur im Spiel -Amsterdam, Pantheon 1939
The point you are making about the editorial changes is important, but are you proposing it in relation to the Dutch text or the German text ?
With congratulations on your involved participation in Wiki...
(Lunarian 12:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC))
PS: Homo Ludens develops the ideas initiated by Huizinga in his Dies Natalis lecture as Rector Magnificus at the Leiden University on Februari 8, 1933 : "Over grenzen van spel en ernst in de cultuur" (= Dutch)
(Lunarian 12:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC))
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