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November 2012
Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. I noticed your recent edit to Shivaji in popular culture does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Camel1234 (talk) 15:09, 22 November 2012 (UTC)I will provide summery sure.
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Camel1234 (talk) 02:48, 23 November 2012 (UTC)Thanks
Easy way to format GoogleBooks refs
You can convert a GoogleBooks URL into a full WP footnote using http://reftag.appspot.com, so that might save you some trouble. It fills out all the fields, though if it's a book in "Snippet" mode you have to add the page number manually. Hope this helps, MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:12, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Camel1234 (talk) 17:16, 23 November 2012 (UTC) THANKS
- No worries. Coupla suggestions: the reason your text is appearing in that weird box is that you left a space before your typing on the line. Never indent by adding spaces, just add a colon (":") at the start to indent one notch, two for another, etc. Usually when replying to folks on Talk pages, you indent one notch further than the person you're replying to. Also, you type your message first, and sign at the very end. Lastly, you generally don't want to use all-capital letters, since in Internet culture that's "SHOUTING" and comes across as impolite. Thanks for your edits so far, and good work on using clear Edit Summaries. There are probably some format improvements we can make at the Shivaji in popular culture article, and I'll post in the Talk page there once we figure those out. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Camel1234 (talk) 17:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)ok
== Please stop adding trivia ==
Please stop adding trivial and tangential content, such as the painter from a movie to Shivaji in popular culture. The subject of the article is the Shivaji in culture - the content should focus on his appearance and meaning. In the context of the article you are working on, items like the painter credited in the film is complete and utter drivel creating bloat that takes away from the actual meaningful content that should be the subject of the article. The details about films should be limited to the director and the actor portraying Shivaji. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 15:44, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Camel1234 (talk) 15:46, 26 November 2012 (UTC)ok
- I am sorry, I completely misread a persons name and mistook it as a crew position. Please ignore the above completely misguided rant. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 15:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
A cookie for you!
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Please accept a cookie in apology for my HUGE mistake. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 15:56, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
Please use "Preview" before saving
Hello Camel, I see you're making a lot of very small edits in a row; if you click the "History" tab of Shivaji in popular culture you'll see that it's hard to see how the article is developing because of your many small (and often with no Edit Summary) edits. It is far better to use the "Preview" button so see how your edits look, and make most of your edits on one Save, instead of making a tiny change, saving, looking at whether you like that edit, making another, saving, etc.
We all make mistakes, or forget we wanted to change one more thing a minute later, but overall please try to group edits together and provide a clear edit summary rather than a series of many small, unexplained edits on the same article only minutes apart. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:15, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks. By the way, easiest way to structure replies on a Talk page is to indent with the colon (":") so you're one space to the right of who you're replying to. Then your message, then signature. Take a look at how I've coded my reply to your here and you'll see how it goes. It's a lot of new stuff to learn, isn't it? But you seem to be taking to it well. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:28, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Camel1234 (talk) 12:34, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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