User talk:Ronaldloui

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Ronald, I see you never got a proper "welcome" message, so....

Welcome!

Hello, Ronaldloui, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Punahou School Alumni. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:JohnGardnerSignedTimeCover.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:JohnGardnerSignedTimeCover.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

RESPONE: It's ok, we found a White House picture of Gardner. You can delete this one.

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[edit] Punahou School

Please see my comments at Talk:Punahou School#Alumni. Maralia 01:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] table of contents in Punahou School Alumni

No problem. Once in a while, I browse around for common misspellings (in this case, "Cincinatti") and fix them and any other misspellings I find. When I so that, if I see any opportunity to easily improve an article, I do that at the same time.

To generate a table of contents, use equal signs to indicate the sections: '==' for sections, '===' for subsections, '====' for subsubsections, etc. If there are three or more headings, Wikipedia normally automatically adds the table of contents.

On signing: to sign your comments with username and date-time, use the four tilda characters, i.e. ~~~~ -- Terry Carroll 23:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

(Moved above comment, from User:Ronaldloui, where I'd accidentally and inappropriately made it. Sorry about that Ronald. Terry Carroll 23:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Willard Warch

Just thought you might like to see the stub I started due to inspiration you brought. Cheers, --Kukini hablame aqui 19:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

yeah i saw quite a lot of your good work... i was wondering whether you realized you've been effectively drafted as a researcher for this school's alums! but it's an interesting school, and obviously relevant right now because of the obama candidacy. let's put it this way, i'm not helping my other alma maters, u of r and h, though they are perfectly nice schools. it's just the way the wikipedia list looked when i first saw it (and when all the journalists were writing their backstories about the school re:obama), and the spin that all the private colleges have been using (shame on them) that motivates me here. there are plenty of interesting schools, and you can often tell by looking at the alumni list (e.g., swarthmore, new trier, hotchkiss), and there is very often a mismatch between the reputation and the reality. hence the need for quality information to be easily accessible and publicly vetted. Ronaldloui 19:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Punahou tag

Hi Ronaldloui,

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the notable alumni section in order to generate some comments in the discussion section because I think that there needs to be some consensus about how that section should appear. I agree in principle with what you are trying to do and I understand the amount of works that takes so please don't take this as a criticism of that work. My intention is to review it closer and perhaps work up a section example on my user page so you can see more clearly what I mean when I say that a person included (outside of an alumni list entry) should reflect on what it is about Punahou that he or she (or others) have said in regards to their attendance that has contributed to their life. If you look at it that way you can see how that makes the article about Punahou stronger and in my opinion keeps the focus on the subject in a more objective way which is more appropriate to a Wikipedia article.Awotter 22:48, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, but seriously, I have emotionally divested myself... it's wikipedia, and I find wikipedia tremendously valuable, so the process must be working. I was just surprised by the hidden alumni I found during the past six months while doing the research. Nobody missed a Secretary of State or a President, so it's all somewhat in the noise. I just don't want to create a misleading impression, which is how I believe I discovered it when I got interested in fixing it. I mean, every Olympian was listed, but not a single person of real substance unless that person was a headliner. Well, I suppose Armstrong, Sun Yat Sen, Mills, and Dole were already on the list. Maybe at that point I should have just cut instead of adding! I think if it goes back and forth between a list of 10 very interesting people, and something else like a narrative or a longer list, well, that's what wikipedia does. I'm actually more interested in the integrity of the longer list, even if no one looks at it. I figure it's a resource in that form, but it's fair play to take big cuts at the main page. I'm not a fan of the Case school narrative that someone seemed excited to write about... When we were students there, they made us read real history about the school. I agree with your comments on misuse of "darling", "greatest", "special", etc. Start editing! There is authoring, and then there is editing -- both have their idiosyncracies. Ronaldloui 00:50, 12 November 2007 (UTC)