User talk:Rumjal
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Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Creating "articles" which simply rephrase the title is viewed as vandalism. Please don't do it again. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 08:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- Please take a look at some of the tutorials before creating such short articles. Thanks. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 08:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Please do not vandalise articles
Adding false information to Wikipedia articles like you did to The Riddle of the Sands is considered vandalism. Please do not continue with this sort of activity or you may be banned from editing. Dabbler (talk) 21:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Rumjal's Reply I realize that I am new to Wikipedia and can use all the help that I can get here, but I am a retired librarian and do not make mistakes of this type. To be sure that I was correct, before I made the Wikipedia change, I went to the Library of Congress Online and found the following catalog entry for Shadow in the sands:
The Shadow in the Sands: being an account an account of the cruise of the yacht Gloria in the Frisian Islands in the April of 1903, and the conclusion of the events described by Erskine Childers in his narrative The riddle of the sands.
This is the full title and below this there appears a publication date of 1999. This is public information and is authoritative.
As such, the information in this Wikipedia entry is wrong. I corrected it. Such correction is not vandalism. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs) 09:24, 20 February 2008
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- My apologies for biting too hard, but the book was first published in the UK in 1998 and so the information in the Library of Congress was in error when it came to the first publication in the world, Wikipedia must not be US-centric. Also the book's title is usually given as the short version. The extension is more by way of being a subtitle. For example, Tolkien's book is given as The Hobbit, not The Hobbit or There and back again.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dabbler (talk • contribs) 16:58, 20 February 2008
Reply by Rumjal Thank you very much for your kind reply. I neither knew of this Wikipedia policy (and a very wise policy it is) nor of the book's earlier publication date in the U.K. ```` 21 February 2008
[edit] Edward Frederick Knight
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see that you've made an entry on the Riddle of the Sands talk page regarding Edward Frederick Knight. Now that you have drawn my attention, I see that searching for his article is difficult as he does not have an entry on the Edward Knight disambiguation page. Do you want to correct this? If not, just leave it and I will get round to it soon. Thanks for pointing this out.
Reply by Rumjal Thank you very much for your reply. Since I am new to Wikipedia and not too sure about how it works (I spent my working years as a librarian using typewrite and card catalogue, and computers are still new to me), I should greatly appreciate it if you would take care of this when you have the time. I am going to try to leave a helpful link for you at Georgetown's library http://library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl289.htm I am signing my name with the four tildes but I do not know yet if I should date this or not. Wikipedia can be confusing to new users! Thank you. ````
- I think you are forgetting to use the Shift key when trying to type the four tildes, I see ```` instead of ~~~~. If you do type the four tildes, it will automatically add the date and time, like this Dabbler (talk) 22:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
You can sign talk page contributions with four tildes, like this: ~~~~, which saves the 'bot coming round and signing for you. The talk page is a better way to work out differences among editors about facts—for example a book's date of publication—than just deleting the other version time after time. See the three revert rule for more details.
Don't be put off by all this: stick with it! --Old Moonraker (talk) 11:08, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Reply by Rumjal Thank you very much. I always look for a talk page and prefer to use them, but I do not always find a talk page. Wikipedia should have a policy of always appending a talk page to an article. Thanks again rumjal 03:20, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
- E. F. Knight added to the Edward Knight disambiguation page. I will probably do a bibliography for him, which would include Falcon on the Baltic. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- Talkpage: Sorry, rather casual use of language here, my fault. All articles have talk pages, just click the "Discussion" tab at the top to be taken there. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
