User talk:JMLofficier

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[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, JMLofficier, 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 place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Jpeob 05:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oops!

Heh. I nearly blocked your username for violating our policy on "no names of celebrities" - and then it turns out you actually are Jean-Marc Lofficier.

Welcome to the project, sir. DS 17:39, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fantastique Work!

Wow, well done on re-writing it. That's a solid effort! Sure, I'm willing to help. The "article is longer than preferable" tag though is purely a guide. Splitting the article into another superfluous article perhaps would not be beneficial. Keep up the good work! Jpeob 02:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, though, you could further improve the page by Citing sources. This would allow your edits to follow the Verification policy of the project and be even more valuable. Cheers, Jpeob 03:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I've responded on your talk page because I wasn't sure this was the right place.

--User:JMLofficier

No worries. We're all here to help each other! Responding to my talk page is fine - perhaps edit at the bottom of the page so the talk page is in chronological order - but that's just me being pedantic...
It's great you're updating stuff you know about. Wikipedia has a policy of No original research which basically means you aren't meant to add material to Wikipedia that has not been previously published by a reliable source. As your information is coming from a published book - which is a reliable source - that is fine.
Try to source a claim like this:

Substantiated claim.<ref name=Perry>Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref>

Which looks like this in the article: Substantiated claim.[1] ''Then put a references section at the bottom of the page (I've already done this on the [[Fantastique]] article) like this'': <references/>

In that section will come up the actual reference like this:

  1. ^ Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.

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I hope that helps. If that seems too complicated, perouse these help pages: Citations quick reference, Footnotes and Citing sources.

Hope that helps. Cheers, Jpeob 13:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, try to sign your pages with the four tildes: ~~~~

Thanks, Jpeob 05:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superman's Metropolis split

I have proposed a split into the three parts of the trilogy as there is easily enough infomration to provide 3 solid entries. See the talk page for further discussion. Also I note you mention that there is a proposed 4th part - do you have a source for that? You wouldn't know if the whole trilogy is going to be reprinted possibly in a collected volume? If we do split it would be good to have an image from each one. I know you have them on your site - would you have large quality versions we can use? I notice one seems to have been removed and if you like I can sort them out and make sure the right tags get used for them to be kept. (Emperor 18:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC))

I've responded in more detail on the Superman's Metropolis page but I have no objection to what you propose. As far as I know there's no plan for a collected edition. I wish. What do you mean by "one seems to have been removed?" What? From where? JMLofficier 13:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. By "one seems to have been removed" I was refering to the fact that there were image tags pointing to what seemed like the Metropolis cover but it wasn't there (which usually means copyright issues hadn't been clarified to Wikipedia's complete satisfaction and it had been removed - it can be a tad tricky). As I say I can either add the images in (you can email them to me (the_emperor AT mail2emperor.com - where the " AT " is really @ of course) and I'll take a swing at it or you can upload them yourself and drop a note in here or the relevant entry and I'll spot them and sort it out. As you are fine with the splitting I'll sort that out in a bit. (Emperor 14:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Just wanted to point out

Not being accusatory here, but I just wanted to point out the Wikipedia conflict of interest policy. Just a quick heads-up, in case you get questions later. --Midnightdreary (talk) 15:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I personally happen to disagree with the policy. 1) as a frequent wiki user (in areas like comics, sci-fi, bibliographies, etc.) I want the information to be up to date and correct; if it posted by people who know best, as long as it doesn't contain any opinions, just facts, so much the better; 2) as a long-time wiki contributor in fairly narrow, specialized areas (French fantastique, literature, etc.), I don't like to see well-researched, professionally written entries bastardized by well-meaning amateurs. I agree that there is a line between compiling factual information (about books, films, comics, etc.) and self-promotion, and object to the latter just as you would; on the other hand, as long as the information is correct and opinion-free, I would rather have it than not, or rely on a third-party rather than a source. Lesser of two evils, etc. JMLofficier (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Of course (oh, there's also an autobiography policy). I'm not accusing you so don't feel the need to defend yourself... nor am I intending to start an argument on the policy, I'm just pointing it out so you know! :) --Midnightdreary (talk) 16:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
No problem; I try to be careful when updating articles not just about me but people I know (and who don't have time to do what I do :-)); basically, I stick to bibliographical information, ie: adding new book titles/dates, updating links, etc. merely in order to keep the records up to date. JMLofficier (talk) 06:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)