User talk:ShawnHill

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[edit] Welcome

Hello ShawnHill, 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! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! You (Talk) 21:02, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ronald20

Regarding your remarks made on the Talk page for Ronald20: Although his editing style can be quite frustrating, you should not have expressed your feelings in the way that you did. I suggest that you review Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks.

FYI: Ronald20 is a young editor who probably has some sort of learning difficulty, or maybe a behavioral problem such as OCD or Asperger's. Although editors with these conditions may cause problems on the Wikipedia, there are also other editors with the same conditions who are making valued contributions to the Wikipedia. Recently there have been a number of editors who are trying to improve the situation with Ronald20, and he does seem to doing better with his recent edits. If you still think that his editing is unacceptable, your next step would be to file a Request for comments on him. BlankVerse ∅ 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

If that's truly the case, then my apologies to him. I think I remember glancing over a comment that this particular person has a learning disability. However, I feel that if each page is already edited to conform to a certain standard of quality, then he should leave well enough alone. The way I and maybe others see it, Ronald is doing these edits just for the sake of doing them. I can certainly appreicate if someone comes behind me and makes proper corrections to my contributions, but when someone else comes around and basically ruins the hard work you've accomplished, then there is some just cause to be frustrated. I can understand that he, and along with other editors, have made valuable contributions, but that's not the point. My point is simply is that I don't appreicate anymore ruining the work I take my valuable time of doing, nothing against him personally.--ShawnHill 18:03, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

The best way that I've found to deal with Ronald20's edits is to try to lead by example. For example, when I make a correction of one of his edits, I try not to just do a knee-jeck revert, but will also try to do some wikification, or add more info, or do some copy-editing. He does do good edits (besides the odd ones, like when he adds stub tags to large articles and removes them from small ones), and many of his good edits seem to be from following the examples of other editors.
You also need to be careful not to confuse the edits by Ronald20 (including the two sets of IP ranges that he also edits from as an anon) with some of the other anons that are also doing problematic edits to radio station and TV station articles. There is, for example, someone editing from AOL that is adding large amounts of confusingly written background history, even though the current info on the station may only be a couple of lines. BlankVerse ∅ 21:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] User page edit

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