User talk:Killing sparrows/Zaindy87

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Contents 1 Edit review and welcome ot Adopt-a-User 2 Have a nice vacation 3 About an infobox 4 Mulitple Vandalisms

[edit] Edit review and welcome ot Adopt-a-User

Hi There Zaindy87,

Welcome to the Adopt-a-User program!

I did an informal review of your user page, talk page and edit history to get an idea of your interests and experience on Wikipedia. Here are my comments.

You obviously have an interest in Pakistan! Three years ago I stayed in Pakistan for a much needed break after a two week bus trip across Turkey. We flew into Islamabad and although we were definitely budget travellers we stayed in a very fancy hotel and ate fruit, drank tea and spent hours in the bathtub recovering from our journey and preparing to cross India by train. I would love to return there for a longer visit in the future!

You have made many great additions to articles on Wikipedia. Thankyou! I read the diffs on several dozen and was impressed that you made changes to improve clarity and grammer and to make articles sound more neutral in point of view.

I have only two minor criticisms to make. Firstly, it is good to always use an edit summary, it helps other users track changes to and article and also helps in fighting vandalism. You can read more about this here. Even if you just put, 'typo,' or 'grammer fixed' it will be appreciated by other users. The edit summaries you did make are very helpful as they explain your major edits very well.

The other thing I noticed is that you have only one edit on a talk page! It is a good idea when making large changes or changes that might be disputed by other users to leave a note on the article's talk page so other users will know what you are thinking. It is also a good way to get acquainted with users who share your interests. The recent edit you made, adding the 'fact' tag to the claim that Musharraf perhaps staged the assasination attempt is an example of this. When you see something like this, tag it and mention it on the talk page.

You might also consider joining Wikipedia Project:Pakistan, go to the project page and see if you would like to help them with improving Wikipedia's articles on Pakistan. Again, a good way to get to know other users who share your interests.

Alrighty then. I have created a talk page for us, you can access it by going here and clicking on your user name at the top of the page. I will put a copy of this message there. I am on WP throughout the day and should be able to answer any questions you might have.

Killing Sparrows, thank you very much for the editing review! As I play around a little bit more with Wikipedia, I will have questions to ask. And my first one is, how do I indent my reply on a talk page? I remember reading somewhere that if you're making a reply to another persons's comment on a talk page, you should make sure your block of text is indented slightly to the right below theirs. I've forgotten where I read it/how to do that. Zaindy87 07:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind that question, I looked at the other talk pages of the users you have adopted and found out for myself! And yes, I have joined WikiProject Pakistan. I plan to make edits on non-Pakistan related articles too, but currently school is keeping me very busy. Zaindy87 07:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Have a nice vacation

Hi Killing Sparrows! I haven't been on Wikipedia much myself. Hope you're having a nice summer vacation :]

[edit] About an infobox

I copied an educational infobox template onto the Education in Pakistan article, and as such there is no data for "attainment" levels in Pakistan. How do I remove the bottom part of the infobox? I tried deleting the "attainment" part of the template but it did not work Zaindy87 18:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mulitple Vandalisms

Hi Killing Sparrows! I encountered multiple consecutive vandalims on an article which I had to revert one by one to the last authentic version of the page. Is there any way I can reverse 3-4 edits in one go? Zaindy87 18:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC)