User talk:Press olive, win oil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

[edit] Change to Olive Oil page

I think your reversal of my change (here) was probably based on a misunderstanding. I changed [[bitter]] to [[bitter(taste)|bitter]] so that the link would go to the Bitterness part of the Taste article, instead of to a disambiguation page for the word bitter, which can refer to a British type of beer or (apparently) to a German car firm as well as to the taste. In most browsers, what is displayed in the Olive Oil article would not be affected by my change. See Help:Piped link for a clearer explanation.

I propose to make the change again. But do let me know if I have misunderstood your reasons. Grafen (talk) 08:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry! Press olive, win oil (talk) 14:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Editing other peoples comments

Hi, I saw this [1] edit of yours just now. Obviously, this was a well intentioned edit to make it more readable. However, you should be aware that it is against etiquette (wikiquette) and talk page guidelines to edit other peoples comments in any way. I am sure it is not the case with your edit, but doing this can be construed as misrepresentation. Thak you. SpinningSpark 15:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC) I wonder why that would be against any guidelines if they're small, minor edits. Oh well, thanks for the advice. Press olive, win oil (talk) 15:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edits

I wonder why that would be against any guidelines if they're small, minor edits. Oh well, thanks for the advice. Press olive, win oil (talk) 15:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

  • It is because the talk page is a record of what the person actually said. You cannot change that (even spelling mistakes and typos - I noticed a few of those from you also) because that is what the person actually wrote. If it is important enough, by all means point out the mistake to the person so they can change it themselves, but never edit a past comment yourself. By convention, editors do not even change text in their own comments. If this needs to be done, the convention is to strike through your old comment and then add the correction. Hope this helps you. SpinningSpark 15:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Ah - and I see you have just provided an example on my talk page where srikethrough rather than deletion would have been appropriate!! SpinningSpark 15:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Sorry! Press olive, win oil (talk) 14:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC) But, how do you do strikethrough? Command-U doesn't work. Press olive, win oil (talk) 14:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

You do it by putting the text you want to strike between strikethrough tags
<s>struck text</s>.
An easy way of doing this while you are in edit mode is to highlight the text you want strike, then click the strikethrough icon on the toolbar above the edit box (a little right of centre on the toolbar).
By the way, I am sorry you have had nothing but people telling you off since you started editing on Wikipedia. Normally, the welcoming committee are the first to leave a message to new users, but we probably made them think you were no longer new by making your talk page so busy. So allow me to say, Welcome to Wikipedia. They then usually go on to list a whole bunch of stuff you should read but you can't read everything at once so let me just point you at Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia. SpinningSpark 22:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Spinningspark. This / is a strikethrough mark, right? The key you can write a question mark with when you hold shift. Press olive, win oil (talk) 21:38, 23 February 2008 (UTC) I did it. Just hit the str button. Thanks lots Spinningspark. Only administrators can give barnstars, right? (Educated guess.) Well, if I could, i'd give one to you. Press olive, win oil (talk) 21:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Anyone can give barnstars to anyone for anything, there are no rules. Sometimes people design them specially for a one-off situation. But please don't give me a Barnstar for telling you how to do strikethrough, that was too easy. Anyway, they are at WP:STAR if you need them.

By the way, a good way of getting help on your talkpage is to leave the {{helpme}} template there. There are editors who go around answering these help requests. You can also go to the helpdesk at WP:HD to get more eyes on the problem. I am also happy for you to ask me questions directly on my talk page, but you will not always get a quick reply as I am often away from home on business. SpinningSpark 23:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC) On the barnstar article (WP:STAR), someone did strikethrough rather than deletion. It said "speling grammer, and punctunctuacion are, importent!" which is gramatically incorect, of course but it was struck through rather than deleted. Spinningspark (or anyone else) , why would a key page have strikethrough on the article? Are guidelines treated like talk pages? I wouldn't think so. Press olive, win oil (talk) 14:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

It is just a joke, highlighting the sort of thing copyeditors go around creating. Strikethrough is never normally used on an article or project page. Strikethrough is for talk pages were you want to avoid the accusation that you have changed the meaning of something someone else has written. For instance, if you write "I think green M&Ms are best", then someone writes underneath it "I agree". You cannot then change your mind and change green to red. This makes it look like the second person likes red, when in fact, he likes green. The solution is to strike out your comment so everyone can still see what second person is agreeing/commenting/disagreeing with then put your new opinion at the bottom. If you change your mind before anyone else has commented, then ok maybe just straightforward delete, but once there are intervening comments you really need to strikethrough. SpinningSpark 15:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hi

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iceeblueboy (talk • contribs) 23:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Atlantic City, New Jersey edit

I don't think what you wrote about the climate is necessarily true, I live in Northern New Jersey and I've seen times where Atlantic City and Southern New Jersey has gotten just as much snow and cold climate weather as the Nothern part of the state. Simon Bar Sinister (talk) 19:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC) Yes, but so does Nashville, which has a humid subtropical climate. By the way, I'm using the Koppen climate classification to define this. Press olive, win oil (talk) 23:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Also, I didn't write the comment about Atlantic City getting less snowfall than somme inland areas, but it is true. Press olive, win oil (talk) 23:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)