User talk:King brosby

Michael Hardy:

Many thanks for your editing of the Goldmans piece, small as it was, and I shall attempt to do as you say in future.

King Brosby.

Marshan: Again thanks for your comments. I have taken to using preview more and to to disconnecting from the net as soon as I find something meaty to work on so that I later know if Wiki is going to accept it before I risk losing it. I have still had some mistakes eg writing a long piece only to then try to login (and so lose it). King

Marshman:

Thanks for comments that are spot on. I began writing stuff before studying the manual...now I am trying to improve my skills. Yes I live on Maui..part of the year (rest in the UK). I have found Wiki unstable and that has prompted me to save often so as not to lose material. King brosby.

I can sympathisize there. I've lost a lot of stuff due to the instability. I would suggest two things: 1) beore hitting the "Show Preview" button (or the "Save page"), block off the paragraph(s) you are working on and save it to memory on your computer. If the Wiki goes south (drops you), bring things back up and control-v the modified paragraph in on top of the unchanged one. You should not need to hit the "Save page" until you have everything just the way you want it. 2) As another backup, I have a .txt file going in another window. I regularly block whole sections of text I'm working on and drop them into the .txt file for safe keeping just in case. I erase them later if the Save page goes through.

On another point: Do not forget to visit the Maui County, Hawaii page and note all the towns needing some input of the sort you are giving to Maui. I've been slowly expanding the text for O'ahu towns where I live. Look on the windward side for some examples if you need ideas >> Kailua, Hawaii or Kaneohe, Hawaii - Marshman 08:51, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Greetings! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you haven't already done so, please carefully read the following pages:

You can sign your name with ~~~~ (or just ~~~ to leave out the date stamp). If you have questions or doubts of any sort first see the help pages, then do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump and somebody will respond ASAP. Have fun! --Jiang 04:36, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hey King, I can see you are getting into editing, but like me, you have an aversion to reading instruction manuals ;^) It will make it much easier for you and those that come upon your contributions if you learn the Wikipedia styles. I guess otherwise, revisit your contributions to see how they got edited (corrected). Not trying to discourage you at all — your input is welcome even if you absolutely refuse to conform! - Marshman 18:02, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Yo, King. You left a message on my Talk page disputing that NYC is the financial capital of the world. But that claim is not made in the New York, New York article (I assume that's the article you're talking about). There's only a statement about NYC being the financial and mercantile capital of the western hemisphere in the 1800s. Personally, I would dispute whether there is a current financial capital of the world. If NYC, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo could be merged, that would surely be it. JDG 03:48, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

King man. You do not need to save every single little typo change you make to an article when you are writing. Each one (when you save like that) is preserved in the record of page changes which can get unmanageably long. Use the "Show Preview" save instead. This shows you what your change has become and gives you the opportunity to catch typos etc. without saving these to the main server. When you have the paragraph just perfect, then hit the "Save Page". Wikipedia has been very unstable over the last few weeks so what I do is constantly make a copy of the paragraph(s) I am woking on before hitting either button (I make the copy using the "edit" the "copy" on my browser after marking the part I've worked on). If I get a "crash", I can reinsert my work in the page when I get it back up again without losing everything. Good to have you on board adding to Hawaii stuff. There was a lot of silly stuff up there about the 50th State and its culture. Do you live on Maui? - Marshman 04:31, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I second that. You are more likely to run into edit conflicts this way as people see your work on recent changes and then go to the article. If you are still working on it, you may be both trying to make a change at the same time. Angela 07:41, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Please note: you used far too many capital letters in institutional fund management (which I moved, as you can see). Michael Hardy 16:45, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hello again. Please highlight the title word or title phrase at its first appearance in a new article, like this. (See my editing of Goldman Sachs for an example.) Michael Hardy 23:31, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Free Trade and Free trade[edit]

Why do we need Free Trade if we already have Free trade? Are Free Trade and Free trade two different concepts? wshun 00:01, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The two should be merged. mydogategodshat 00:23, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Additions to current events[edit]

Don't link to China unless speaking of the cultural/geographic entity. Instead, link to People's Republic of China (where the country template exists) or Mainland China (to be specific). --Jiang 20:01, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

my comment is on current events too ... I like the frmt of the multiple parts in the occupation item ... IMO, alot easier to read. reddi

Current events[edit]

Hey. Please only preface entries on current events with true ongoing events or developing stories. For example, "automobiles" is not an ongoing event or developing story so it does not provide any useful context to the reader (and is in fact distracting). Just link to automobile if it happens to be in the text of the entry. Examples of true ongoing events and developing stories can be found in the "Ongoing events" box on the current events page. Cheers! --mav 06:33, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)~

Bournemouth[edit]

The images at Bournemouth have been listed at Possible copyright infringements. Please take a look at the comments there and the copyright policy for images (requires permission or fair use justification). Wikipedia isn't a personal site, even though it's done for personal interest, so it can't use images with only that permission unless it's fair use. It also wants others to be able to use the images, so we've got to be careful about documenting the rights we have to images, to help others to know what they can use and under what terms. If we aren't careful, the printed version will bring about lots of legal action agaisnt the project. Chances are that the photographer will like the publicity if he's asked for permission. Yes, even more to learn about when contributing here...:) JamesDay 07:28, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Current events[edit]

Me again. Please only preface entries on current events with true ongoing events or developing stories. For example, "CALPERS" is not an ongoing event or developing story, it is a subject. So it does not provide any useful context to the reader (and is in fact distracting). Just link to CALPERS if it happens to be in the text of the entry. Examples of true ongoing events and developing stories can be found in the "Ongoing events" box on the current events page. See also: Wikipedia:How the Current events page works --mav 08:47, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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