User talk:JFBridge

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[edit] Welcome

Dear JFBridge,

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for the contributions you've already made. We hope you like the place and decide to stay. You can sign your name on talk pages by using " ~~~ " for your username and " ~~~~ " for your username and a timestamp.

You should also feel free to ask me a question on my talk page. I'll try to answer as soon as I can.

By the way, are you the user responsible for the contributions from the IP address 213.106.147.145? I've noticed some similarilites in the style. If you are, please read the messages left here. Let me know either way.

Best regards, RFBailey 16:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I accidentally created this page in the wrong place (as the User page rather than the User talk page: an inexcusable error) the first time round. Please accept my apologies for that. --RFBailey 21:48, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Stylistic Note

Hi. I've been looking over some of your recent contributions, and before I say anything else, I want to make sure I point out that they're good contributions. However, its accepted convention to put spaces after punctuation marks like periods, commas, parentheses, etc... when writing something that will be viewed by others. I just thought I'd give you a heads up on that, since I know of at least one other editor who got in a fair amount of trouble for not spacing after punctuation marks.

Hope that helps. Gershwinrb 04:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Punctuation

I see you've already been asked politely to use spaces after punctuation. I will ask once more. I appreciate your taking the time to add content on Laurel and Hardy, but if you don't use spaces properly, it falls on someone else (me, in this case) to go in and do it for you. It is not fun. Thanks. Denni talk 02:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marginal constituencies in the United Kingdom

JF, Thanks for creating the article "Marginal Constituencies in the United Kingdom". I have fixed the stylistic errors that you made in the article in order to help you in making a good article. I am disappointed that you undid all of my work in re-creating the same article.

Here are the changes that I have made again, and why I have made them to help you understand Wikipedia style better:

  1. For article titles, "Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun, do not capitalize second and subsequent words." See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization). This is why I have moved the article from "Marginal Constituencies in the United Kingdom" to "Marginal constituencies in the United Kingdom". the article
  2. For sub-headings within articles, "Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest lower case. Thus 'Rules and regulations', not 'Rules and Regulations'." See WP:MOSHEAD.
  3. "Avoid links within headings. Depending on settings, some users may not see them clearly. It is much better to put the appropriate link in the first sentence under the heading." See WP:MOSHEAD.
  4. I have fixed the following links to direct the reader to the most relevant article:

Please checks these links to see why the links that I have made provide better information to the reader. Conservative is a disambiguation page that provides little information. Labour and General Election are articles about the concepts of "labour" and "general elections", and are not specific to the United Kingdom.

I have also provided an explanation and the beginning of each section to help the reader understand what he or she is reading. Please remember that Wikipedia is an international encyclopaedia, and not all readers will understand British political terminology.

Finally, I am concerned that your undoing of my changes suggest that you may be making the mistake that many new editors make, that of thinking that an article that you create in Wikipedia "belongs" to you, so you alone get to decide how it is formatted and what the content is. This is not the case. Please review WP:OWN.

If you have any questions, you can post on my talk page. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 12:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Punctuation again

I see that other editors have politely asked you to be more careful about inserting spaces after punctuation marks, but that you have not responded to these messages and have continued to ignore their requests. By doing so, you are creating unnecessary work for other editors who have to go back over the articles you have revised, and fix the punctuation/spacing. If you continue in doing this, you run the risk that your otherwise valuable contributions may be reverted by impatient editors. --Russ (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism warning

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed or reverted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Mrld 02:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

Hello there

I see you are interested in the Life On Mars Television Series, as I am.

At the moment I have A Life On Mars Wikiproject currently up for approval by the Wikiproject Approval Council. As you are interested in Life On Mars I was wondering if you would be interested in adding your name and joining. If you are interested you can find it on Wikipedia: WikiProject Council/Proposals its right at the very bottom you cant miss it as its titled ‘Wikipedia: Wikiproject Life on Mars (Television Series)’. And after your name is added to Wikiproject propsals please add it to the main page Wikipedia:Wikiproject Life On Mars

If you are interested by all means feel free to join

Regards

Police,Mad,Jack —Preceding comment was added at 20:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Jack Rice

A tag has been placed on Jack Rice requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. —BradV 18:04, 5 April 2008 (UTC)