User talk:Andi1235

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Hello, Andi1235, 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 messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! WLU 18:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Be bold

Hi,

If you see a problem with an article, such as at Overcoming Autism, you are actively encouraged to BE BOLD and try to edit to improve it. Wikipedia only gets better if people like you see something they don't like and try to make it better. Have at it! WLU 18:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

You're better off replying to this comment on your talk page or my talk page (the latter if you want a quicker reply or to be sure I get it) than on the OA talk page - people there won't know who you're talking to or what you're talking about. Further, regards this comment:

Well, now I have some idea what I'm doing. I'll work on editing this page, but first I figure I'd better read the book in question....

Why read the book first? If it looks like an advertisement, you can probably re-write it to sound like less of an advertisement without having read it. You're just changing the wording, not disproving the contents. Have a go at it, and if anyone has a problem with your changes, they should bring it up on the talk page or re-write it themselves. WLU 18:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

Nice re-write of the article. If you want to get rid of those blue boxes (I'd recommend it, not very standard formatting) you can erase the spaces before the chapter names. I recommend

  • bullets (* bullets) or
Bold (;Bold)

but it's up to you. WLU 19:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I think I was already on that (I hit save when I meant to hit preview!!), but thanks for the info. Andi1235 19:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's still a good re-write and a good catch - it's totally against policy to copy and paste info from the book jacket. One thing you could add is a book info box (just paste the following and fill in as many fields as you can):

{{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:Coverimage.jpg|250px]] | author = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | genre = | publisher = | release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

If you can get a cover image from amazon.com and upload it to wikipedia, that is acceptable as long as you use a specific license (here is one I uploaded). It's one of the few uses of images that doesn't require GFDL licensing, which is very complex from what I understand.

Incidentally, I moved your comment to below my signature line, as per WP:TALK. WLU 20:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)