User talk:71.62.219.65

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[edit] Regarding your unsigned remarks

First, when making comments on talkpages or in WP space, please sign your remarks by typing four tildes, thus: ~~~~. When you hit [Save page], your comments will be signed.

Second, to respond to your statement on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Goon Virus, to wit:

God dang No one cares if you broke a finger. but this is an actual event cause my cousin was affected by this and affecting around 600 of the smartest VA students is a pretty big deal in a school based off of computers. If you can't find an artice on this i'm sorry. i guess this is the authoritative source and to sit their and ask for this article to be deleted is silly. its true and i'm not quite sure why you crae if you aren't using it for reserach and if you are well then this article has all the facts you need.

Let's look at this one sentence at a time.

God dang No one cares if you broke a finger.
  • Cussing is uncalled for.
  • There should be some form of punctuation after "dang". Given your capitalization of "No", apparently a period was intended.
  • The word you're looking for is "whether", not "if".
  • If you can understand that no one cares whether I broke a finger, why can't you understand that no one cares whether the harddrives on some computers were reformatted by a virus that reportèdly was triggered by launching PowerPoint?
but this is an actual event cause my cousin was affected by this and affecting around 600 of the smartest VA students is a pretty big deal in a school based off of computers.
  • OK, here you ended the previous sentence with a period, but began this one with a lowercase "but".
  • Except when attempting to capture someone's speech habits when quoting spoken language, there are no circumstances when a sentence should be started with the word "but". Ever.
  • Whether or not something is an "actual event" does not make it worthy of an encyclopædia article. I really did break my finger. Just because it really did happen, doesn't mean that my breaking a finger deserves an article. Please read this policy.
  • Whether or not it affected your cousin makes your case hearsay instead of testimony. Testimony as an argument for notability or veracity, on Wikipedia, is inadmissible, since it violates WP:NOR. If all you have to go on is hearsay, what makes you think it will somehow be regarded as more worth listening to than actual testimony?!
  • The word you need is "because", not "cause". If you want to abbreviate it, it requires a leading apostrophe, thus: 'cause . Smart people know this. That notwithstanding, smart people sometimes write "cuz" or "bcz", but never "cause", only "'cause".
  • You need some punctuation within your sentence, most notably a comma after "this".
  • Whether or not something was a "pretty big deal" in one small school in Virginia, hardly argues forcibly in favor of its encyclopædicity. Please read WP:NOTE again.
  • The assertion that this virus affected "around 600 of the smartest VA students" begs citation for three critical reasons.
    1. Where does the number 600 come from? Were they all affected, or just some small subset of them? Please use reliable sources to support your statement.
    2. On what basis is the claim made that the students at this school are "the smartest ... students [in Virginia]"? Are you one of these students? If you're one of the smartest students in Virginia, I mourn for the future of our nation.
    3. Even if your nonsensical statement is taken at face value, it apparently implies that because something happens to 600 of the smartest VA students, it is inherently more noteworthy than it would have been had it instead affected 600 of the dumbest VA students. Smart people don't think that way.
  • The school can not be "based off of computers". It can use computers as a core tool in its instruction m.o. That aside, however, you're looking for "based on computers", not "based off of computers". When verbs use the preposition "off" as a helper, they frequently take "from" as an additional helping preposition (since "off from" is actually a compound directional preposition in English). "Off" never takes "of". Ever.
If you can't find an artice on this i'm sorry.
  • Again, you need a comma after "this".
  • In English, the word "I" is always capitalized. Always.
  • Don't be sorry, just understand. It can't be cited, it can't be verified from Wikipedia's definition of reliable sources. Instead of being sorry, write an article about it in a reliable source, and then if it manages to pass WP:NOTE, it might survive an AfD.
i guess this is the authoritative source and to sit their and ask for this article to be deleted is silly.
  • Again, "I" is always capitalized. The consistency with which you fail to capitalize it indicates that it is not a mere typographical error on your part.
  • If by "this" you mean the testimony of several students, see above. If by "this" you mean your hearsay, see above. If by "this" you mean Wikipedia, please re-read WP:RS.
  • You need a comma after "source".
  • The word you're looking for is "there", not "their".
  • To say that asking for this article to be deleted is "silly" is your opinion, which is just fine. However, nothing you've said comes close to making a coherent argument that the article does not violate a number of core principles of Wikipedia, and that's what's required to prevent its deletion.
its true and i'm not quite sure why you crae if you aren't using it for reserach and if you are well then this article has all the facts you need.
  • "Its" is a genitive, you're looking for "it's". Both are always capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Regardless, it's also true that I broke my finger.
  • Ugh. Punctuation. Spelling. ("care", "research")
  • Nobody is going to be using Wikipedia for research on virori that formatted the harddrives in some obscure school when powerpoint was launched. Rest easy. "All the facts you need", in this case, will never be missed by anyone. Ever.

Cheers, Tomertalk 00:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)