User talk:YankeeInCA

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Hello, YankeeInCA! 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! dougweller (talk) 06:54, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

Jrdioko

To sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).

Hi. The anon user's problem was that he was sharing an IP address of a banned useer. By creating a login, he got around that problem. RickK 23:43, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

YankeeInCA 00:57, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hehe Yankee in CA or Yankee Inca =p --Skuld

Thanks! Somebody gets it! --YankeeInCA 02:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hi - I've given you a new and better welcome menu. I've also made some changes to the articles you edited today. It is sometimes difficult to suss out what's expected on Wikipedia. When someone writes an essay, they can make arguments, offer opinions, take facts from two different sources and develop a conclusion from them, etc. But here we hope that editors will just report what reliable sources (see WP:RS and WP:Verify have to say about a subject. Some of your edits were very much original research -- see WP:OR. That doesn't mean your comments were wrong, just that they weren't encyclopedic from a Wikipedia point of view. My edit summaries should give a clue, I hope, as to at least part of why I made changes. Happy editing! dougweller (talk) 12:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} How do I find out what changes you've made? "Be bold" is the mantra, but you don't want anything that sounds like an "essay"? Surely you mean "opinion" or "op-ed piece." There's a huge difference. I write facts in the style that they are written in history books, and point out things that young people need to know about history and just enough historiography to clue them in. It is indeed difficult to "suss out" what an Administrator wants to know! I only get lured into the [to me, as a "girl" user] Dark & Technical Maze of Wikipedia once or twice a year as you can see. I found my entry on Behaim's Globe lifted in toto from Wikipedia (with Wiki permission, no doubt?) in an Internet encyclopedia, which is both flattering and cautionary for a professional writer. But that bit was entirely opinion! Go figure.

Did you read WP:OR? Most of your edits seem to be a bit slanted, with terms like "It is important to remember". To whom is it important? Why is it important? Also, you're using tildes ( ~~~~) in your edit summaries, which you shouldn't do. You can always try asking the admin in question if you have an issue with them. Also, plenty of websites leach off wikipedia, so most likely it was one of the many doppelgänger sites that copied. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 21:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}}It's at http://encyclopedia.vestigatio.com/ What bothered you about the Columbian Exchange? I finally figured out how to insert a reference... Why does it say, "Sign your posts on talk pages: YankeeInCA (talk) 22:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)" How do I sign my entries? Be sure to read lots of real books for perspective. No tildes, YankeeInCA.[reply]

We describe vestigatio as a "Huge Link farm based on full wikipedia mirror. Each article has google ads." - so it was a ripoff. You sign entries on talk pages with 4 tildes, you of course don't sign edits on articles. And I meant essay. dougweller (talk) 22:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]