User talk:Lostinthedark

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[edit] Welcome

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Hello, Lostinthedark, 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:

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Thank you for experimenting with the page Global warming on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. 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. Raymond Arritt 00:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Hot Six (novel). It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. WODUP (talk) 02:16, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry for reverting your edit. I was informed by another user that it was a good edit. At first glance, cars dying seemed like a lot of the nonsense I've seen on here. Again, sorry about that.  WODUP  Talk 19:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Commings

Thanks for your note. Since you have a copy of the Crippen and Landru edition and I don't, there are two things you could do -- one is to provide a citation for the book on the Joseph Commings page (publication date, ISBN, all that stuff) -- A couple of resources for citing are WP:CITE, Wikipedia:Citation templates. The other job would be to identify exactly which are his stories in the examples cited on the Locked room mystery page. I've started to note the author's name and the format -- novel, short story -- for the brief descriptions of the works cited there as examples, such as The Case of the Constant Suicides, but you are obviously more familiar with the Commings stories than I am. That would be a great addition to those pages, and thanks in advance for helping to make these pages better. Accounting4Taste 05:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Looking good in the Commings article, you've got the right idea. So, now you have to show the reader exactly where the quotation starts by putting double quotes (") where it begins -- and of course it should be a word-for-word quotation from the introduction, not a paraphrase. Then you need to give the reader the information s/he will need to look up the book you're quoting from. Check out {[Wikipedia:Citation templates]] to learn how to do that -- at a minimum, you need the author, exact title, date of publication, publishing company, and ISBN (the information will be in the first few pages of the book). Then as soon as I learn how to do it myself <grin> I'll clean up the footnotes so they're all the same and reduced to a single citation of the book. Accounting4Taste 16:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "The best", "the most famous", etc.

Hi there: Just a note to say that when you put into an encyclopedia entry that such-and-such a story is "the best" or "the most famous", that's what's called here a "point-of-view" statement. It would be thought of as an opinion, and so would not be appropriate for encyclopedia entries unless you let the reader know who says that it is the best or the most famous. So, if you say that such-and-such a story is the "best known", then you have to put a reference that says where that opinion comes from. Otherwise, it just looks like it's a personal opinion (your POV, point-of-view), and those are supposed to be edited out. If you check out the entry for Joseph Commings you'll notice that I fixed up the reference to the collection of his short stories in a way that you can use as a model for how to make these references to a specific book. If you need more information on how to do it, let me know. And I should also say thanks for all the work that you've put in writing up plot descriptions and that sort of thing. I hope you think I'm working WITH you to make these better, because that's how I look at it. My 9-to-5 job is fixing up other people's English, so that's what I'm doing here. Accounting4Taste 18:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

You left a note on my talk page: "The X street Murders are cited as the best in the Crippen and Landru book, and on the internet, not just by me. The X Street Murders are also, the most frequently reprinted Commings story." Great, that's exactly the kind of thing that's needed. So the next thing to do is to reproduce in the article about "The X Street Murders" exactly (word for word) what the Crippen and Landru book says, within quotation marks, (not what someone says on the Internet -- that's not usually considered an acceptable source for a quotation) and make a footnote in the article. As far as being "the most frequently reprinted Commings story" -- who says so? If it's the Crippen and Landru collection, then the same thing needs to happen -- quote exactly what they say, and give a footnote that tells the name of the book, etc. (like I did in the entry for Joseph Commings). If you do it this way, then no one can remove the statement that "The X Street Murders" is the best story -- but unless you make that statement in the form of a quotation, another editor can come along and remove it for being "POV". If I had a copy of the Crippen and Landru book, I'd take care of this, but I don't, so the exact quotation has to come from you.
If you look at the Ellery Queen article, you can see where there are a couple of references to a book called "Bloody Murder" where a critic named Julian Symons talks about Queen's writing. That could be an example for you as to how it's done. Hope this helps. Accounting4Taste 17:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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