Hello, Isaak Josefsohn! 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! ww2censor (talk) 16:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed your perfin edits that provide several references, but they are improperly formatted. I suggest you review these citation templates and use them in future, so that everything formats properly, per the manual of style, including the isbns, that don't work in the form you added them. Are you sure your statement about the official perfins only includes those you listed. If not then you can use the phrase "such as…" followed by the verified country names. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 16:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To Ww2censor: Many thanks for your message of welcome. Before venturing to edt an article, I explored extensively among the various articles which deal with format and referencing. Frankly, I found the information difficult to follow because it was so scattered and involuted by way of links to links. The article on manual of style was on my itinerary, but it does not cover everything that I might use; e.g., a section reference instead of a page number or a chapter. Somewhere during my exploration there appeared the statement that the formats for references are not rigidly prescribed, just that they should be uniform within any one article. I grew up with the ACS style, and I am biased in that direction. The PTD-L-BRKT+'ref'+PTD-R-BKT format is more to my liking than the double-brace notation with its piped concatenations. It would be helpful if all [sic] of the markup notations were collected in one article, with their effects. After I had dealt with the peculiarities of different types of single quotation marks ("smart" vs. simple) I was too tired to deal with the ISBN problem immediately. This does seem to be under control now. It is surprising, though, that ISSNs are treated differently from ISBNs.
As for the information which I entered: The countries which I named are all those for which I could cite references. My wording was chosen to remain accurate nevertheless. I carefully did not say (or imply) "only". Indeed, I own all-government perfins from Guatemala, Uruguay, and Venezuela, but i have no published mentions of these at hand. As an individual who learned English as a foreign language, I lay great store by using the language accurately. IsaakJ (talk) 13:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think you are rather overdoing it with the citations; one verifiable citation per country is quite sufficient, and I would really prefer to see the citations templates used, but as you say they are not compulsory though that may change in time. You could still add a few names of other countries without a source, so long as it is well known, though using appropriate language avoids misunderstandings in most languages, not just English. We could rephrase the sentence: The following countries are known to have punctured stamps for general use by all government agencies and offices to say; Several countries are known to have perforated stamps for general use by all government agencies and offices, such as, …(non-complete list of names of countries). Thanks ww2censor (talk) 05:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
{{helpme}} Ever since I registered to edit Wikipedia, the system has "remembered" me. After I had recently edited the article Perfin I noticed that I had NOT been logged in. (Why not?) Is there a way to change the ID for this edit from my IP address to my nom d'éditeur? IsaakJ (talk) 03:35, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, there is no way to change the author of an edit. One way to prevent this from happening in the future would be to add something to your monobook.css page. Here you can change the way pages look, such as background color or font. Since those changes will only show up when you are logged in, it should be easy to notice when you are logged out.--Werdan7T@ 05:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Or you can just look at the top right side of the page to see if your username, talkpage, etc., and "log out" are showing. If it shows "log out" then you have been logged in. You cannot always rely on your computer to keep you logged in to registered websites. Hope that helps.
