User talk:Dedonite

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Zoo York[edit]

I noticed you removed a lot of the content from the Zoo York page while putting in more about the philosophy. I have created two different sections. --Liface 15:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, didn't notice the other page. Sorry for the confusion. Remember to source the Zoo York page eventually with reliable sources. Also, remember to sign your comments with (~~~~) four tildes! --Liface 20:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well yeah that's true, you can't just say "I lived this, so it has sources" although it would make things a lot easier. Basically a primary source should be a newspaper or magazine article, backed up by secondary sources like websites or other articles. The reliable sources page linked above has a lot more on this. --Liface 06:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Miles Browning peer review[edit]

I don't know if you noticed, but I submitted this article to the Military History WikiProject for peer review, which has been completed. (It's also linked on the article's talk page; just click 'Show' on the bottom of the infobox.) It has a long way to go before we can submit it as a good article, but it's definitely on its way. I have a couple of reply questions for the peer reviewers after some of their ideas have been implemented, and we can use the article's talk page for discussing ideas and tasks to be done.

I've already done a couple of things suggested in the peer review - I added the article to the Browning DAB page, and I have downloaded the photo, which I'm trying to straighten up a little before uploading it to Wikipedia for use in the article. I've also obtained several photos from the Naval Historical Center, which I'm tweaking and will upload soon.

Since you provided the book quotes, it would be terrific if you could provide page numbers for each of them. As the review says, 50 or more footnotes are not at all unusual for an article this size. If you can't, we'll probably have to remove them until someone can do so. It also needs dates for his major awards, and the 'early life' and introduction need expansion. I noticed that you made even shorter sections out of the 'early life' text today; that's the opposite of what the peer reviewers suggested. I've left it for now, but I think you should reconsider that edit.

I look forward to working with you to get the article to good article status and hopefully to featured article status. Feel free to leave a message on the article talk page (preferred) or my own talk page. Thanks - Baseball,Baby! ^balls^•^strikes 23:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Preview, minor edits, edit summaries[edit]

As of the time I write this, you've made 43 edits to Miles Browning over a period of four hours, which is way too many for the content you've added and changed. If I don't tell you this someone else will, so here goes.

First, could I ask you to please use the 'Show preview' button instead of saving your work so often? It really makes things difficult for recent change patrollers to have so many edits from one user show up in Special:Recent changes in such a short period of time.
Second, you're not making minor edits, and you should not mark an edit as minor unless it's... well, minor. Minor edits are things like typo fixes, adding commas, and very superficial changes. Changing the text is not a minor edit, and most of your edits today have been marked as minor when they are not.
Finally, please, please, please use the edit summary box to summarize your changes. If you don't (and you're not), editors have to crawl through the history edit by edit to see what changes you've made, which is very tedious. Using edit summaries is common courtesy, and we'd really appreciate it if you'd start.

Thanks very much, and happy editing - Baseball,Baby! ^balls^•^strikes 00:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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