User talk:Jerryobject

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Welcome!

Hello, Jerryobject, 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 ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  -- intgr 15:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Good day editor intgr. Thank you for your welcome. I am not sure how to signal you so you know that I have answered this. Maybe I will learn this in the next week or two. Good bye. -Jerryobject 07:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

People who contact you through your talk page usually add it to their watchlist, so they will know the next time they check it. (Occasionally, people might miss the edits on their watchlist, so if you don't receive a response, you can notify them on their talk page). Happy editing! (and feel free to ask any time you have questions) -- intgr 13:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for answering. -Jerryobject 01:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
You asked on the Talk:C (programming language) page about understanding how changes will affect the article. The easiest way to to use the "Show preview" button. This will show you what the section you are editing will look like if you save the page. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 12:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes. I found this function maybe a week ago. Most interesting. Thank you. -Jerryobject 01:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Automatic changes move

I moved this next block to here from Talk:C (programming language), as the material relates to a problem I had, and not to C or programming. -Jerryobject 01:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic changes

Hello. I am a newly registered editor. I made a few very minor changes to one small section called "Usage", regarding Gambit and Squeak, but when I checked the diff, it seems to have changed several things which I do not even understand. I am sorry to have caused a possible problem. Does anyone know how this occurred? I would like to ensure that this does not happen again. To avoid causing further problems, I will stop working for now, and check back tomorrow. Thank you. -Jerryobject 09:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I have found that the "lag" during page downloading, during which you might have already started editing the text, can cause the cursor/highlighted text to move to another place, so you end up changing something other than what you thought you were changing. You need to wait for the page download to complete ("Done" in Firefox) before clicking on the text to edit. Also beware that Backspace can in some cases reload a previous page rather than correcting the preceding character.. Make sure to edit just the section you need to, not the whole article (except that for many articles the introductory section can only be edited via edit-whole-article). Also make sure to click the "Show preview" button to review your changes before "Save page". You can right-click the links in the preview to check that they work right. — DAGwyn 14:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I am sure something like this happened. I grew rather alarmed when I saw that I was causing changes that I hadn't intended. -Jerryobject 01:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect links

Hi...have you read Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken? Letdorf 11:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC).

No, I had not. Now I have. Thank you. I thought I was being helpful. Sorry. Jerryobject 20:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

In a recent edit to the page Elite (video game), you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the appropriate variety of English used there. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 10:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)