User talk:Bothnia

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Hello Bothnia! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Smee 21:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

== Erik Laxman & admins ==

I do sincerely apologize for my rude knee-jerk response. I do most of my work on the Japanese-related articles, and the debates about whether to call things by their Japanese names or Korean names or Anglicized butchering of either just really get to me, and as much as I try not to let it bother me, I do find it annoying that we spend so much time arguing over details like that when we could be discussing and perhaps even advancing scholarship. That said, I hope you do not think poorly upon me as a person, nor as an editor. Please remember, we admins here on Wikipedia are not assigned by some higher power to be able to always know the best way to resolve a situation - we're only human, and more or less regular anonymous random editors like yourself. I do my best to help out where I can, and I like to be able to help others; sometimes I just lose track of what I should be doing and how I should be helping. Uther's just being stubborn and obnoxious, like too many editors are. Please don't begrudge all admins for it. And if you ever come across something I can help with - a question on Japanese history or culture - I'd be happy to help you out with it. I'm not the most experienced nor talented at solving disputes, but I'm working on it. LordAmeth 14:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)