User talk:Surreptitiously

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Surreptitiously! 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! Two One Six Five Five τ ʃ 14:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • 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] Your Hulk edits

Thanks so much for adding all that you did! Lots of great stuff on the cultural impact section, though I would like to return it to 'In Popular Culture', because I think the section title gets stigmatized by all the bad article uses, and would like to show how it should be done. That said, I also edited for active voice and took out some redundancies and one peacock-y setnece, but I really wanted to thank you for the massive contribution to the article. Please hit the talk page to see what else we're working on the get the Hulk back to GA and on to FA. ThuranX (talk) 15:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

You can't use 'too active' a voice, but the extreme passive is a drag to read, so a lot of editors clean up a lot of the stuff like 'Bob was shown to say upon publication in the magazine x..." into 'In the May 200X 'magazine x', Bob said...'. It's no less NPOV, and reads clearer. ThuranX (talk) 02:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC)