User talk:Eman

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Hello, Eman. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

  • Just edit stuff off the cuff for a while. We like that!
  • When you have time, check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
  • You can sign your stuff on talk pages with ~~~~ It will convert to your username + the time. "anon" is fine too.
  • If puzzled, put a question on Wikipedia:Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
  • Most of all, have fun but take our work seriously!

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 18:01, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)

Heh. No, we all try to welcome newcomers when we feel up to it. I confess I should do it much more often myself.

As to your question on usernames, I cannot really help you. I typed in "cimon avaro" when I created my account, but my username is "Cimon avaro" now :-/

But as you can see from my signature, there is some degree of control as to what the signature is (the thing you get when you put those four wavy things back to back, and you do get a timestamp as a part of the bargain). If you find a link "Preferences" somewhere on you screen, and click it, it will bring you to a menu which has an editbox prefaced by: "Your nickname (for signatures):"

If you write "eman" there and click the gray button/bar marked with "save preferences", that is what will be written on talk pages (like this) when you put ~~~ somewhere into the text. And a fourth wavy gets you the time when you wrote it. That "nickname" can start with lowercase if you like, but even so, when your username appears elsewhere, like on the Recent changes listing; unfortunately, your name will still start with a capital. I don't think there is anything you can really do about that, except perhaps ask someone to program this software better :-)

By The Way. If the rest of the preferences menu baffles you, do go and read Wikipedia:User preferences help. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 22:29, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hi. I dont know how it happened, but you are more than welcome to correct it. Danny 14:16, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] John Glenn and the Kennedys

This special relationship was the subject of an interview with a Kennedy widow years ago, and I remembered it as being Jackie. Perhaps it is Ethel, and you should feel free to delete that particular assertion from the article, but please leave in the "special relationship". Glenn always in his political career referred to himself as a "Kennedy Democrat" and always cited John, and later Bobby, as inspirations for his own career. Thanks for your interest in Wikipeida and especially one of the more fascinating characters in it, Eman. Rlquall 04:38, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] operative/agent

Hello.

In response to your questions on my talk page, yes 'operative' and 'field agent' are more or less synonymous in the context of the CIA. As to Novak... that's a more complicated issue. While his original article said that he was told she was an "operative" Novak subsequently disavowed that and claimed that he was told Plame was an "analyst" (which would have been false), but then himself called her an "operative" (correctly) only by mistake... meaning it more in line with the sense of 'Republican operative' or 'Democrat operative', which is roughly equivalent to 'person acting on behalf of'. Some people doubt the veracity of his explanation because Novak has been covering intelligence matters for a long time, would presumably know that 'CIA operative' and 'agency operative' have a specific meaning of 'secret', and had used the term correctly only to describe covert agents in all his previous articles. --CBDunkerson 13:45, 2 November 2005 (UTC)