User talk:Ethelh

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Ethelh, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Yuri Foreman

I understand the preference for a consistent format throughout an individual article, and so have changed back those two. --Geniac (talk) 13:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

OK.--Ethelh (talk) 06:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Why am I red but others aren't?--Ethelh (talk) 06:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

You are red because there isn't currently anything on your userpage. If you want to be blue, all you need to do is add something to your userpage- it can be a complex userpage like I have, or just a sentence that says "This is Ethelh's userpage." Check out WP:USERPAGE for some things that userpages can be useful for. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Tx!--Ethelh (talk) 02:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] quote boxes

Rather than use all those quote boxes, can you instead find ways to incorporate those quotes into the text of the article? The boxes are cumbersome, and often are misformatted on certain monitors. It would help the articles instead if you could write the quotes into the existing texts. Kingturtle (talk) 04:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

In a GA article review that I worked on I was told, in contrast with your suggestion, to use quote boxes -- incorporating material that was already in the text of the article -- in order to improve the quality of the article. That was done, and the article was given GA status. Your view may be a personal one.--Ethelh (talk) 16:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
That is a fair answer. I just wonder if you are over using them. The boxes start to dominate the articles. Kingturtle (talk) 16:32, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I will keep that in mind. I've tried to limit the use to the better quotes. One article that does have 3 of them now, though, is Sam Fuld, where I have sought balance by limiting myself to that number and not adding a fourth. Happy new year.--Ethelh (talk) 16:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Jewish Baseball Players

We both follow the Jewish baseball scene. Let's work harder on agreeing who should be considered Jewish and who not. How about that? You use the Reform definition, but you leave out the most important part: raised as a Jew and living a Jewish life. Lists don't make one a Jew.[1]

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Mwinog2777 (talk) 17:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dead links

If the link on Craig Breslow‎ for that comment had been completely referenced, with the article title, publish date, source etc, I would not have deleted it. I will reference the policy as you suggest, but I would suggest to you that you learn how to create reference tags instead of straight links. With all the info those tags provide, there is no question to the authenticity of the reference. Hardnfast (talk) 11:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Craig Breslow

What seems to be the problem, and how may I help you? Prodego talk 20:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, the fellow who kept on deleting my entry finally agreed that it was correct to leave it in. Thanks very much.--Ethelh (talk) 17:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright, feel free to contact me if you need any additional help. Cheers! Prodego talk 00:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)