User talk:Bf2002

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Hello, Bf2002, 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 place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  --Hjal 17:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your work at Tamalpais High School

But, please don't change dates entered in proper wiki markup to look the way you like them. Users can set their date preference under "my preferences" at the tops of their screen, so they can see correctly entered dates in their preferred format. If you are seeing "2006-01-04" or some other non-standard (to Americans) format when somebody has entered "[[2006-01-04]]," it's because you have not selected your own date preference, which will allow the entry to display as "January 4, 2006," or "4 January 2006," and so on. See Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page.--Hjal 17:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Hjal for your suggestions. I enjoy the learning experience of editing in Wikipedia.
First, I need to tell you that I hadn't read enough of the MoS when I made the edit above--even though it is supported, it turns out that use of the ISO date format is discouraged exactly because of the way they look to unregistered editors of visitors. Instead, editors are encouraged to use the U.S. or UK standard format and wikilink it so registed editors with preferences set will see it they way they prefer, but others will see something that they are more likely to recognize. So, I am changing my previously entered dates from [[2007-mm-dd]] to [[Month dd]], [[2007]] whenever I get back to one of the articles I edited.--Hjal 16:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit glitch

During one of your recent edits to the Tam article something happened that you didn't intend. The Notable Alumni section was included twice, while some other stuff was cut. I think that this was a server error, not yours. See the note on Talk:Tamalpais High School. I replaced your other edits, except that I left the sports subhead as a bold line rather than a real Sub-subsection. There is still lots of history and extracurricular activities to add, and I decided that the Table of Contents was going to get way too long if I kept using third-level headings.--Hjal 16:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Thanks again, Hjal for you help.

[edit] May 2008

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Bill Moyers. Thank you. Your single source for this is inadequate, especially since Moyers says the conversation related by Silberman is inaccurate. The 1975 source you cite does not give Moyers as the instructor of Hoover, and is therefore not relevant. ► RATEL ◄ 03:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)