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Hello, Dan653, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages ondiscussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Marc Kupper|talk 22:11, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

List of highest-grossing concert tours

Thank you for the fix of the citation on List of highest-grossing concert tours. I had seen the the error in the ref section but had left the offending cite alone for now as not only was the correct title not obvious (use the name of the magazine or the article within the magazine?) I could not see how that particular source supported any of the three times it was used in the article.

I ended up revising what you did as I believe you deleted the wrong ref. Here's a this diff of your edits (both of them).

There were two refs named billboard2008. The first one, for Mobile Production Pro, seemed to be junk and was also the one that caused the missing title error. I could not find anything in that magazine issue that supported this article. Thus I wiped that one out entirely and made it a cite needed.

The second billboard2008 is more of challenge. You had replaced it with a cite-needed. That seems reasonable but it appears that Springsteen's "Magic Tour" spanned 2007 and 2008. The billboard2008 cite has the data for 2008 and so I put it back in but also left your "cite needed" in place though added a comment to it explaining we are missing 2007.

Another reason for not deleting billboard2008 is that it's also used for Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway Tour".

Here's a diff of what I did after you, and the net edit between both of us. Cheers.--Marc Kupper|talk 22:41, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank-You

Thanks for the welcome. If you wouldn't mind would you take a look at my user page (suggestions welcome). Any other ideas for pages for me to edit would be appreciated. Also any tips on the Wikimarkup language would be helpful, I'm a quick learner, but those citations on the article mentioned above were a bit over my head (thanks for the help). Dan653 (talk) 01:37, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Your user page looks fine - a good way to see a random sampling of user pages is to use what-links-here. For example, pull up your user page in edit mode. Down at the bottom you will see a list of the templates your page uses. For example, Template:User AGF. Click on that and then click on "What links here" on the left. I clicked on some of those at random and liked how User:JordanSamuels formatted his page with the green boxes and so I pull up the wikitext and that's why this paragraph is in a box. :)

I had looked at your edit history and had decided to not dump too much "this is a better way to do things" on you.

Don't worry about those citations being over your head - they were (and still are) a mess and I had deliberately ignored the ones you tackled earlier today as I knew it would take a while to untangle. Too many people copy/pasted from old citations and edited them a little to make the new ones. That's how we ended up with two citations with the same name, etc.

There is one tool that I consider very handy which is Twinkle. The most useful to me aspect is that it adds a toolbar items to the edit box that makes it easy to add cite-web, cite-news, etc. For example, to cite a web site while editing an article I select Cite / Templates / cite web. It pops up a box where you can fill in the field values. I'll do that now and it inserts into the article:

<ref>{{cite web|last=last name|first=First name|title=web page title|url=http://www.a-wonderful-url.com|publisher=Mr. Wonderful|accessdate=1 August 2011}}</ref>

I learned most of my wikitext by seeing things in articles. It's also easy to experiment with wikitext as you can go to any article, enter some random text, and click [Preview]. As long as you don't press [Save page] you'll be ok. If you want to experiment with something where you want to see what it looks like after a save-page then use the sandbox. --Marc Kupper|talk 02:42, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Uh

Not cool.. - 4twenty42o(talk) 22:57, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Damn man my bad. Bad faith assumption on my part and I apologize. We were having a spat of vandalism and I made an unfair assumption. -4twenty42o (talk) 23:16, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

LOL right on Cheers - 4twenty42o (talk) 23:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Honestly I am not sure how to answer that except to say look here. I am not a Wiki programmer, I just employ the tools and templates. Cheers - 4twenty42o (talk) 01:42, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Personal Construct Theory

On behalf of 68.55.112.31 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS) (was disallowed by editfilter):

The article on personal construct theory makes no sense to somebody who has no academic training on the subject. I think that technical articles ought to be made more accessible to the general public, which is why I put the {{context}} tag on it. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:23, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Rollback Granted

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback correctly, and for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback andWikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks.Mifter (talk) 23:53, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Is Huggle automatically enabled for Rollbackers because I would like to use it and it tells me that Huggle is not enabled for my account. Thanks. Dan653 (talk) 17:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Huggle is supposed to be enabled for all rollbackers according to Wikipedia:Huggle/Config. Best, Mifter (talk) 22:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Well it doesn't seem to be. What now? Dan653 (talk) 22:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

You could file a bug here and see what the developers say. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:04, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for your assistance in dealing with unhelpful IP edits to City of Westminster- User:Asteuartw (talk) 05:19, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

☆The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar ☆

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thank you for reverting vandalism on my talk page ~ was really quick in doing so! Happy Editing! -- MST☆R (Chat Me!) 00:20, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Virginia Tech page

Hello Dan653,

Just wanted to leave a message regarding the "killings" section on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University wikipedia page. I erased the section as it does not in fact pertain to the functions of the University, rather occurrences on the campus. Also, the title "killings" does not accurately reflect the situations - especially as the latest incident has yet to be fully investigated.

As a fellow wikipedia user, I ask that you edit the section of interest. In the least, I'd hope you at least move the section to the bottom of the page, underneath all of the information accurately reflecting the purpose and function of the University.

Thank you.