User talk:BlueCaper
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Type below both of these lines, please. And please check passages before or after yours to ensure that there is a reason to why something is a certain way that shouldn't be, because even though I am an aware Wikipedian, things often go over my head. Also, if you are signed into your account, please end your passages with four (not three, not five) tildes, and put four hyphens, two spaces below the tildes. For my main page, click here. Thank you. BlueCaper (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Bro, I Love you. From SiS 05:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Adding material to Wikipedia
I came upon an edit you did. Then I checked a few others, to determine if there was a pattern. What I noticed is that you seem to be making changes based on personal opinion, rather than established sources.
1) In Pei Yuanshao, you made a link to a video game, and another editor removed the link, questioning whether they were the same person.
2) In Guadalcanal, you made changes that contradict established sources, and which read like a personal essay.
3) In Gaya confederacy, you included an image whose neutrality is disputed.
4) In Miguel de Cervantes, you changed the meaning of a sentence without explaining why. You added a note about the first and second volumes of Don Quixote, rather than translating the title (which had been done for his other books).
I didn't check other articles, but each of these edits you made...basically...probably...should not have been made.
There's a firm social code about not jumping on new editors, and I can tell you honestly that I made a number of changes in good faith in Wiki when I first came which were reverted for reasons I thought were unconvincing. After some time, however, I started to see the logic, and I invite you do to the same. Examine edits of well-respected editors, and you'll notice their goal is not to just to change articles to conform to their opinion, but to reflect on common scholarly opinion (and where necessary, to give citations to back up potentially controversial statements).
This does take some getting used to, but it's just as fun to edit Wiki within the guidelines. (More fun, in some ways!)
67.169.127.22 (talk) 13:00, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BlueCaper Response
I will respond to this random user about his issues in the order they were typed:
1) The character Pei Yuanshao from the Dynasty Warriors video game series is in fact based on the character.
2) On the Guadalcanal article, I had citable sources out of a history textbook. If this seems essay-like, then this is a responsibility to be dealt with by all noticing Wikipedians, by changing the manner of--not deleting--the information given.
3) The Gaya confederacy editorial was so long ago that I scarcely remember it! Go to the history page and you will see the date I edited the article, so I cannot really comment on it if I don't even see the incidence in which the "neutrality is disputed".
4) The Don Quixote thing was to enlighten the users with the knowledge that the article even has anything about Don Quixote.
This was all for the users' sake. And no, I am not a new user! I've been at this for quite some time now. And I haven't deleted your message by now only for you to read this response first! The overall rule is to edit for the sake of the readers, not the guidelines! So I know what I'm doing when I edit a page, thank you very little!
Sorry; I get a little temper when someone complains on my talk page. My apologies. BlueCaper (talk) 19:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
