User talk:Robertsch55

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Robertsch55, 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 New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Tibor Scitovsky

Hi Robert. I think you did a great job in elaborating Tibor's writing on the quality of consumption. The article now rounds out well and you've provided links to other similar economists (Veblen, Galbraith etc.), and all this helps motivate a learner broaden his understand of the issue. Thanks, AppleJuggler 06:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism vs. NPOV

I've responded to the concerns you raised on Talk:Edwin Cannan. I've deferred to your judgment on this matter and invited you to make corrections as appropriate. However, since you seem to be a new editor here I thought I should mention here that it's not a good idea to use the term "vandalism" lightly, as it has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Vandalism). It is perfectly appropriate to question an editor's biases and those of his sources but the Wikipedia:Vandalism policy explicitly states that straying from a neutral point of view is not vandalism. Inappropriately labelling editors' contributions as vandalism is itself a breach of etiquette. Please remember to assume good faith. —Psychonaut 01:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A wiki article

Welcome. I looked at the articles you have contributed to. Amazing volume and depth. Your self description comes as no surprise. I share your great admiration for Popper. More recently through Wiki I've come to appreciate Hans Albert, who would have the perfect temperament for editing Wiki articles. It looks like you are doing much editing. I hope you pace yourself, so it always remains fun.

Please forgive me if much of what follows is well known to you or does not apply. I prefer erring on the side of caution. Concerning the above article: I hope you consider adding to it along the lines you've suggested. You bring something up on that Talk page that I believe is prudent to address on this page. Note that above and below the Edit summary (in the Edit mode) are the following:

Do not copy text from other websites without permission. It will be deleted.
Content that violates any copyright will be deleted.
You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL*. [links for relevant terms not included here].

A very good scholarly practice, as I'm sure you know, is to reference within an article (not merely generically at the end as an External link or Reference). This is especially the case for distinctive phrasing that seems to come from another source. Those ought be referenced with quotes or indenting or paraphrase. You might be able to make a quick fix. In other circumstances, if you start an article & want to get material up fast, you might consider making it stub or an econ-stub article with this at the bottom:

{{econ-stub}},

first with very minimal content but links to sources, building on it gradually. An example is Household production function I hope that you take this communication in the sympathetic sense intended, or even shorter. P.S. In case you are not yet familiar with creation of Redirects: If you Search for your article as T.W. H(etc.), then click on the Redirected from hypertext, and go into Edit mode, you'll see how to do Redirects. Best wishes, Thomasmeeks 14:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for kind words and good advice. Cheers Robertsch55 16:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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