User talk:Steven91

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Hi, Steven91, Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like this place and want to stick around. Feel free to contribute in any way you can. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Though we all make silly mistakes, here is what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful, and if you have any more questions after that, feel free to post them on my user talk page.

Good luck! -Chairman S. Talk 06:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Peter_jones.jpg

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[edit] WP:WPOR

Hey, thanks for joining up with Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon! It's great to have as many people on board as possible.

Do you have any pictures of Medford, or can you take some? If so, they could certainly be incorporated into the Oregon article, our current collaboration. Since you're new, I can help you upload the image, license the image, and put in into the article, or into Medford, Oregon. I'm always available on my talk page. the iBook of the Revolution 07:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikiproject Oregon! Its nice to have someone from outside the valley on board, as it can allow us more comprehensive coverage of the state as a whole. A great start would be to add an image of Medford to wikipedia. If you have any images on your computer, it is really easy to do it yourself, or you can scan pitcures and put them in, too (see WP:IMAGE. Also, anything you can do to help improve the Medford article would be great as it is pretty bare bones at this point. Welcome to Wikipedia, let me know if I can help you in any way. PDXblazers 22:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medford

My understanding is that the subdivision name for Medford would be a city, the official name being City of Medford. This is pretty much standard throughout Oregon (eg, City of Eugene, City of Portland, etc.). Although some states have different subdivisions (eg, towns, cities, boroughs), to my knowledge, Oregon has only two subdivisions, cities and counties. So even really small places in Oregon are called cities (eg, City of Oakridge, City of Paisley). Hope this helps your understanding. PDXblazers 00:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Table for Medford is a good start. Look at the table in Eugene, Oregon for what I think is a similar model as DC, but a bit better for Medford. Try to find the city seal, and if you don't readily have a picture availiable, use the map for your table. I like that you're excited about sprucing Medford up, really needs to be done! thanks PDXblazers 00:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

After you get the table in there, I can insert the pic. FYI, to do it yourself, you need to download it onto your computer, upload it under the 'upload file' link under the searchbar. Then, you simply place the image into the table. But I can do it, no problem.

Yeah, I'm trying to fix that image. Give me a few minutes and I'll see what I can do. Its too small as it is now PDXblazers 01:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't know how to make the logo bigger, guess you'll have to ask someone else. Also, don't really know about the left justification, never tried it before PDXblazers 01:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Card

I saw that you made a disambiguation page for David Card, leaving room for an Oregon businessman by the same name. Do you intend to write an article about him? Please do, I would be glad if you did. But if nobody writes an article about the Oregon businessman David Card, there is no reason for the disambiguation page to exist and I should delete it. This isn't meant to be rude, I'm sorry if it came out that way. LittleDantalk 21:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trusted Site

Hi there, I'm kinda new to this wiki thing so I apologize if this question is a little absurd to you, and yyou don't need to answer it. Recently I have tried to convince my friend that wiki is actually a safe source to use. He thinks that any person can just go ahead and vandalize any page and it stays like that. Now I told them about anti-vandal bots etc. I also heard from him that recently like 100 students got all F's because of info they got from wiki. Now I doubt that story is true, but how can I show my friend to trust wikipedia?

Hi Steven. I'd say that the best way to address your friend's concerns is to test it. Get him to ask some esoteric questions on some field he is familiar with and then look them up in Wikipedia to see if it has the right answers. You could also tell him about the 'history' link on each page which can be used to show prior versions and/or recent changes... thus allowing most vandalism to be easily spotted. It is also worth noting that there have been studies by major news organizations comparing Wikipedia's accuracy on randomly selected articles to Britannica and other major encyclopedias... and in each case Wikipedia has come out about even with the 'respected standards'. For example, see this comparison of Wikipedia and Brittanica on science articles. It is always possible that at any given moment a particular Wikipedia article may contain misinformation, but in my experience 99% of the time if you go to any given page it is going to have the information you are looking for and be completely accurate. --CBD 13:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CORP

Hi, Steven91. I suspect the message was added to Combined Transport Inc. as a reference to the page WP:CORP, where you can find our notability guidelines for companies and corporations. There are some criteria listed on that page - if Combined Transport Inc. meets those criteria then it should be pretty easy to show that it does. Otherwise, someone may nominate the article for deletion, and although WP:CORP is a guideline, as opposed to a policy, it tends to carry a fair amount of weight in deletion discussions. I hope this answers your question - please let me know if I can be of further assistance. -GTBacchus(talk) 05:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Kitzhaber.JPG

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[edit] Colbert vandalism

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Oregon, are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks.

Not very good behavior for a member of WikiProject Oregon... Katr67 00:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Washington. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Katr67 00:39, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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