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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Max314, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Boot Camp, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Geez, like The Matrix much? :) Cheers. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:20, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Response from my talk page: Hey, no problem. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. People around here are more than welcome to help. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Matrix Revolutions

Hey Max. I'd like to second the welcome above. I did worry that you would find the edit summaries of me and others in relation to the edits you made to the article a bit curt, and if so, I apologise. They're more for the purpose of describing what you're doing than justifying (which is what talk pages or so). They can thus come off as a bit arrogant if you're not sure of the motivation.

I must commend you on your application in absorbing Wikipedia principles. I think you're learning quite fast.

If there's a single, overall problem with the section you put in, it's that unfortunately, it still qualifies as fan speculation. I appreciate that it's quite a well-considered analysis, and that you do genuinely want to explicate the movie to outsiders. It struck me how much your edits would be appropriate for a dedicated Matrix-analysis site, and I ponder now whether it would be worthwhile to construct a dedicated wiki for that specific purpose. A number of general points, not necessarily related to anything you've done, to make about editing the article:

  • There is such a thing as too much detail. Wikipedia's systemic bias means that items such as The Matrix are always going to have an overwhelming abundance of material compared to say, Culture of Azerbaijan. Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias is one project that is dedicated to combating this, and another is to be especially selective when covering a topic that due to its nature is going to be of high interest to the English-speaking, male internet-literate types that are Wikipedia's majority population. A simple summary article - cf. one chosen more or less at random, The Godfather Part II - to my mind is if anything, more informative than the overblown morass that is the articles devoted to every aspect of say, Yu-Gi-Oh.
  • You made clear that the interpretation you placed was just one, and not necessarily better than any other. But precisely because there are so many different interpretations, we need to look seriously at which select few interpretations we are going to make mention of (with a preference for published, well-known and generally recognised pieces). There was a long-running debate a while back over whether to include a link to a Marxist/Maoist analysis of the movie in the "External Links" section. One of the reasons for its removal was that it was argued that the Marxist analyis, while perfectly valid, it was nonetheless an obscure or unimportant interpretation of the film. This of course is always going to be subjective, but when something is your own interpretation, or even that of a whole group of fans, it may not be easy to see whether it's relevant or not.

Anyway, I've gasbagged enough for the moment, but I should say: don't be discouraged from editing the article; try not to take anything anyone has said about the content you've added personally; bring any issues up on the article talk page where they can be discussed, and I encourage you to have a look at editing in some of the many other areas of this fascinating project. Slac speak up! 01:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BNP

Hi - I'm sure that your edits to BNP's talk page were in good faith, however please try and remember that Wikipedia is not a soapbox - some Wikipedians no doubt voted for the BNP, who are a legitimate political party. Wikipedia does not want to risk being sued! Thanks, HawkerTyphoon 16:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

No worries! As long as you love Wikipedia as much as it loves you! HawkerTyphoon 18:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dasam Granth

The article obviously needs a lot of work, if you have good sources it would be great it you would improve it. Arrow740 18:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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