User talk:Alwpoe

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Alwpoe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --ShelfSkewed Talk 20:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your contributions

Thank you for working to improve the biographies of authors of children's and young-adult literature. But before you continue, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's Manual of Style, in particular the style guidelines for biographies at MoS:BIO. Many of your changes, such as those to Sharon Creech, have undone information presented according the Manual of Style and have removed existing Wikilinks. I hope you stay and continue to make those biographies better--many of those articles are in need of a great deal of improvement. Regards --ShelfSkewed Talk 19:49, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jean Thesman

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Jean Thesman. Please be more careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. The templates exist for a reason. They need to remain until the problems they address are resolved. Valrith 03:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Jean Thesman. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Valrith 22:12, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Jean Thesman, you will be blocked from editing. Valrith 19:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
      • This is your last warning.
        The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Valrith 14:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Final Notice

Hi - a report was filed to Administrator Intervention against Vandalism today, regarding your removal of maintenance tags from Jean Thesman. I declined to issue a block against you in this case today, but wanted you to know that I strongly encourage you to discuss on the article talk page prior to removal of maintenance tags again. They're there for a reason - to draw user attention to problems with the articles, so that we can have the best possible article. When you remove them, you could be hindering that process.

Please do not remove them without discussion on the article talk page. You may contact me on my talk page if you have any questions. - Philippe | Talk 21:27, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalisation of titles

Funny you should mention the this, because that's the one I had the most trouble with--and you're right: I got it wrong. For some reason, I thought it was an article, but it's actually an adjective, adverb, or pronoun. As for the rest: The first and last words are always capitalized, and so is everything in betweeen except for articles (a, an, the), prepositions (in, on, of, from, etc.), and conjunctions (and, but, if, etc.). The Wikipedia guidelines are even more specific, stating that only prepositions and conjunctions with fewer than five letters should be lowercase (so above, for example, would be capitalized). Anyway, thanks for catching that mistake. Off to fix it now... --ShelfSkewed Talk 03:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Plot" vs. "Plot Summary" and "Notes" vs. "Footnotes"

Thanks for your comments. The Novels WikiProject standard article format is to have a "Plot introduction" i.e. one that is "spoiler" free, leaving a "Plot summary" for a more (slightly more) comprehensive treatment of the plot which may contain spoilers. The notion behind this is to enable a causal reader to taste the flavour of the plot without spoiling the possible experience. Otherwise I would totally agree with you. On the "Notes" front, whilst I see the point, numbers of editors write "Notes" which are clearly just that and are comments unassociated directly with points in the main text of the article. As you say footnotes are a more formal notational form which forward and back-reference to points in the text, which is what they do. I personally believe they are also a more scholarly term for something like an encyclopedia. Just my two penny worth. Cheers :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 07:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth and Mary I are half sisters. Anne Boleyn never commited incest or adultery. That was simply a tanact used by Henry so he could marry someone else. You probably should do more research on the subject. Warriormartin (talk) 15:55, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Calling the Swan

Hey, come on. Stop your childish behaviour on this article. There is a consensus on initials in people's names. That's why the D. H. Lawrence article is named the way it is. You may also have noticed that there is a three-revert rule. You can answer here, I'm watching.LarRan (talk) 17:04, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I have looked through the Manual of Style and not found any rule about this. As far as "consensus", that seems only anecdotal on your part. If you Google this issue in manuals of style, you will find that different ones come down on different sides. I think literary tradition is on the side of no space. As far as "childish", it is childish to make these changes without clear motivation. Thank your for your input though.