User talk:RuthAS

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Hello, RuthAS! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ww2censor 17:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Philatelic edits

Your recent edits to Pre-adhesive mail‎ imply that only public mail systems used pre-adhesive mail‎ when this is not true as stated in the next paragraph they could be court or government mail not in the public system. Mail from ordinary women and men and often bears distinctive town-marks worldwide seems like a strange statement because I don't think anyone else except men and women sent mail. I will rephrase this if you don't as it read very oddly.

Do you have a reference for the railway mail carrying date of 1830 that you used in Postal history? Verifiability is the basis of all edits so a reference would be good. I can help you insert if if you don;t know how, just let me know and I will show you.

You may be interested to join the Philately WikiProject if you are a knowledgeable philatelist and can contribute such information. Welcome and enjoy your editing. ww2censor 17:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Railway edits

While you have added dated information to the railway articles, you have not provided any sources for your information. Did this data come from a book or a website? If so please quote the source used. BTW one small thing - United Kingdom is not the same as United Kingdom and you should use the appropriate one depending on the time as in Railway post office. I have corrected it. Cheers ww2censor 05:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I would like to echo ww2censor's comment. It's great that you are adding lots of dates and other information to railway articles, but it would help to know where you got the information from. If you're not sure how to cite your references, take a look at Preston and Longridge Railway to see how we've done it there. --Dr Greg (talk) 18:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

To Users Ww2 Censor and Dr Greg : Thanks for your remarks. I'm a novice at contributing to Wikipedia and struggle with the system! However, I will try to add references used - all my contributions have been backed-up by published sources of a very good standard of accuracy! I believe my contributions have added to the depth and interest of the relevant subjects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RuthAS (talk • contribs) 15:52, November 28, 2007

That being said, you still need to provide references. I you look at Wikipedia:Citing sources that is already listed in the welcome note you should be able to learn how to reference books, magazines or web sites. If not let someone know and we will help you do it. The basics are, author's name, title, date of publication, publisher, isbn if any and page number. Look at the reference in this edit to see what a book reference looks like when editing. It's really quite easy after you do it the first time. And, BTW, please sign you posts as shown above. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 22:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walker

You can disagree with me all you want, but the fact of the matter is: when you are making a new page you must either make it all right at the moment or tag it with underconstuction. If you do not do that, others will tag it with other tags.Undeath (talk) 12:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I noticed your page 1 minute after creation in the newpages section of Wikipedia. Also, the underconstruction tag is just that,

[edit] Pauline Gower

Thank you! I couldn't find her husband's first name anywhere. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Air Transport Auxiliary

It is nice to see the participation. I have undone the one edit called duplication. A book listed in the reference paragraph and then again in the further reading paragraph, is not duplication. I left the change you made to Lettice’s Forgotten Pilots as to the publisher, but this was in the References paragraph. The book I used as a reference was published as I wrote it. I realize your copy is a later publication, but in the reference section it should reference the copy I used. Keep working on Pauline, Lettice and Diana’s pages! I have a wealth of information I would be happy to share with you. (Xcnick (talk) 05:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC))