User talk:Velvetron

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Velvetron! 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 name 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! daveh4h 14:58, 14 July 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 • Fair use • 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

Hi, read the message above if you need help doing something or want to read up on Wikipedia. Ask me or check out the help desk if you need help doing something. Happy editing, daveh4h 14:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Velvet Underground

In the past few days, you have reverted several changes made to The Velvet Underground by 143.239.215.33. Your changes seem very minor (substituting em dashes for en dashes, or replacing straight quotes with rounded ones, for example).

Please do not make such minor changes to Wikipedia articles without a very good reason. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 17:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cannabis (drug) - Health Issues

Hi Velvetron,

In the past few days, you've made several changes to the Cannabis article. They seem to be very good, please continue to make minor changes like these wherever you like - that's what I understand wikipedia to be all about. Having said that... I've changed some of them back - the health issues section particularly. It ended up saying that it's "alleged" there might be a "correlation" between cannabis use and psychosis. This is a controversial area (esp on wikipedia), but these claims are made by peer reviewed studies so I want to drop the "alleged", and the claims aren't generally to do with correlation - this has a specific statistical meaning - they're to do with other statistical tests. Let me know what you think here, there or on my talk page. --Dilaudid 23:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date links

Hi there. I see you're deleting links to dates in various places. Note that the links serve to allow the dates to be autoformatted based on the user's preference. See WP:MOSDATE#Autoformatting and linking. Have a nice day. --PEJL 08:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Please stop delinking bold date links. These allow date preferences to work for the titles of date articles. If they are delinked then the user's date preferences will not work for those titles. I agree that multiple bolds is unsightly, but that is a problem with the MediaWiki software. You are creating another problem by delinking them. I assure that other editors will relink them later. The Template:Linked-title discourages well meaning robots and people from delinking title dates. — Joe Kress (talk) 09:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Meetup

I am not sure if you live in Chicagoland, but I see you have edited Chicago quite a bit. If you are not from Chicago I apologize for the following message. A Chicago Meetup has been scheduled. I hope the time and place are convenient. Your reply would be appreciated.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] just a suggestion...

I've seen you've been doing good work on homosexuality, so I thought I'd be nosy and give you a small bit of advice. Even though we are admonished to assume good faith at all times and not bite the newcomers, sometimes edits or opinions will be treated with less respect if it is visually obvious that you are a newbie. So even if you don't care to add anything to your user page (you can redirect it your talk page) I suggest simply hitting the save button on the page without adding anything so as to make it not appear as a red link. Cheers VanTucky ^(talk) 16:29, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scotland - a nation apart

Hi there - saw your edits to Scotland regarding the distances to nearby nations. Do you have a specific source for this information? Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 16:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we have different browsers - I replaced the 'hyphens' with minus signs but the edit history shows no change. A reply to the above would be appreciated. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 18:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Triton (moon)

Thank you very much for doing all the tedious markup work. It should really help getting the article up to FA standard. Serendi^podous 13:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)