User talk:Red Darwin
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Welcome to Wikipedia[edit]
I saw your excellent edits to short story and wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia. If you ever have any questions or need any help, just let me know.--Alabamaboy 00:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Note that Wikipedia style is that only the first word and proper nouns are capitalised in headings. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
I want to express my delight in seeing your (relatively) recent edits of the Robinson Jeffers page. Your additions to the article were extremely well written and had a lot of good substance. Perhaps this article could even be a candidate for the WP main page in the near future with the work you have done on it. I've looked at work you have done on other literature entries and have seen the same kind of quality. Wikipedia is lucky to have you, keep up the good work!Asedzie 10:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Manual of Style[edit]
Aloha. You may be interested in perusing Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings) and the links to other style guides on that page. "Capitalise the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest lower case" is house style, such as "External link", not "External Link". You may also be interested in Wikipedia:Lead section. --Viriditas | Talk 11:20, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Copyrights[edit]
Since you are a fairly new user with only 544 edits, you may not be familiar with Wikipedia policies regarding copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. Please review Wikipedia:Copyrights for further information. Sadly, I have reverted your good edits to Michael McClure and Louis Simpson as a result. It may be helpful to also cite your sources in the future. --Viriditas | Talk 11:53, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
- Regarding your message on my talk page, the following sub-section from Wikipedia:Copyrights should answer your questions: Using copyrighted work from others. --Viriditas | Talk 10:53, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- In response to your latest comments on my talk page, it is Wikipedia policy to remove copyright violations from articles. This is neither "lying" nor "going overboard". --Viriditas | Talk 08:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Read this[edit]
The above editor may be behind a plot to imtimidate you. me, ad several other editors. Iago Dali 13:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- Warning users about Wikipedia policy regarding copyright violations is not a "plot" nor an attempt to "intimidate". If you are not using multiple accounts, then I apologize, but according to your edit history, edit summary, and talk page comments, it appears that you are. Hopefully, I am mistaken. --Viriditas | Talk 11:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Re impostor, see Doppelganger vandal report. Don Diego(Talk) 19:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Friendly Chat[edit]
How you doing,Darwin? Seeing the number of users involved in the dispute I've asked User: Michael Snow to look into the case and the issues involved. Michael is a very respected member of the community and can deal with the issues involved better then I can. Tony the Marine 22:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hello. Let me explain this to you a little more clearly. You are not allowed to copy text directly from sources outside of Wikipedia. It is still copyright infringement if you use the same text as another source and simply change a word or two here and there. Instead, you must write using your own words. If you are not prepared to do this, you will not be allowed to contribute to Wikipedia. --Michael Snow 15:52, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I posted this to Tony's-
Thanks
- This is all silly. Viriditas is clearly not mentally stable, and trying to hide his own complicity in plotting against me. He asks how I could answer questions put to others, even though I clearly paint a trail back to his own childish plotting. His history of reverting others' edits clearly points to some agenda. What it is I do not care, but if he is involved with the impostures he should be banned, along with his friend. It's a joke to claim I'm attacking him when I had no idea who he was until I discovered his plots against me, and who knows how many others? Tony, if we connect again, so be it. If not, thanks, but I refuse to play in the fantasy sandboxes of the mentally ill. You and I disputed, shook hands, and that was that. This fellow, I'm sure, has a past of troublemaking, and I won't be the last editor he targets. And, as I have clearly pointed out, he is absolutely wrong regarding copyright law, and I proved it. He is insane. Whatever.
As far as your comments re: my stylem thanks, but this is tiresome, and this Viriditas is insane. Good luck in the future. Iago Dali 20:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Ah, happy to see your editings, and they are professional ones! the original article was really too tabloid-like, and i was surprised to see Ms Dickinson received such a treatment when first reading the article. But one thing: could we keep the "mid-age photo"? the "girl photo" was said to have been taken after a serious illness of her, so she looks really frail in that. I guess this image has somehow fuelled the public imagination of Dickinson being an lovelorn invalid. Yes, the "mid-age photo" may not be authentic, but at least it shows a healthy Dickinson, an image really needed to "balance", if not to cancel out, the traditional sterotying of her. :P --K.C. Tang 04:55, 4 November 2005 (UTC) d
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Hi,
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