User talk:RobHarding

Welcome!

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PS.Please also review the Wikipedia:External links guidelines. The Archival Resources link looks okay (according to the guidelines) to add, but the links do not need all the details:

#214 (15 cubic feet: 4 document boxes; 1 [.5] document box; 69 flat boxes; and one flat oversize box) by: Robert S. Harding and Scott Schwartz, January 24, 2003. The Archives Center supports the mission of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, by preserving and providing access to documentary evidence of America's past.

I'm going to copyedit the formatting, to conform with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:External links guidelines. --Kmf164 05:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commercial links — or links to your own private websites — to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. CryptoDerk 23:26, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Louis link[edit]

Regarding your note on my talk page, I did not remove that link. CryptoDerk, who wrote a note to you above, was the one who removed the link. See this page. | Klaw ¡digame! 01:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am not CryptoDerk. You can contact him by leaving a message on his talk page. I haven't reviewed your link and was not involved at all in deleting it. | Klaw ¡digame! 04:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikify[edit]

Please take the time to add links to your texts. That linkage makes for a better encyclopedia. And please only add notable people. Rmhermen 05:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't use ALL CAPS[edit]

Please don't use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS when entering link texts. It is considered yelling and doesn't look very good on the page. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 11:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Slambo Thanks for the help. I will use lower caps from now on. Should I go back an correct all that I have in Upper case? Robert S. Harding 18:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)Robert S. Harding[reply]

I found and lowercased a couple more, but if you know of others I missed, then yes, please (and thanks). Slambo (Speak) 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is it permissable to add links to my text in future updates? Or shold it be done when you first add the text? I was planning on going back to do same shortly.Robert S. Harding 18:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)Robert S. Harding[reply]

It's usually easier to put the links in at the time that you add the text. Just be sure that what you're linking to actually defines the word(s) that you're linking. For example, if you're writing about yard facilities and talk about a railroad's turntable, link to turntable (railroad) (but use the pipe trick like this: [[turntable (railroad)|]]) which gives information about the railroad usage of the term, and not turntable which is a general disambiguation page. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation for more info. I regularly go through links to common rail terms to disambiguate them as a subtask of Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains (as listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo/Disambig).

One other quick item, I generally don't monitor other users' talk pages for comments; leaving a note on my talk page will pop up the "You've got messages" bar for me. Slambo (Speak) 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Got your note. Yup, that's the right page to contact me on. In general, to reach a user, a message on the recipient's talk page will get noticed fairly quickly. BTW, I just took a look over the William Mason (locomotive builder) article (and added links, headings, categories and a lead section). Nice. I've got a large list (User:Slambo/Railroaders) of other prominent railroaders that still need articles if you're interested. Slambo (Speak) 23:48, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Style remark[edit]

Hi. I have a remark about this edit. Please note that it should be ==External links== and not ==External Links== (small l). Unfortunately that's the well-accepted style in here, to not use capitals except first letter, so it is good if you follow it.

And about the same edit, as people said above, please don't use capitals that much, looks bad indeed. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And as other people remarked already, you should put links as relevant to other Wikipedia pages (like city names). Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:03, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Fish Commission[edit]

I'm deleting this article, which has been listed at copyright problems since January 31, because even though you say you wrote the page from which it was taken, there's no indication that you're actually the copyright holder. If you can prove that you own the copyright, let me know and I'll undelete it; however, I'd rather you wrote it in your own words (either way, it's released under the GFDL just by your posting it, so you might rather retain your rights to it). Chick Bowen 22:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's no controversy regarding your authorship, the controversy is regarding the copyright status. You don't necessarily hold the copyright just because you wrote it, the copyright could be held by the Archives. In this case, the relevant copyright statement appears to be this one. The license of the website for which you wrote it is not compatible with GDFL, the license under which Wikipedia operates (for example, the content will be changed by other editors if it's published on a Wikipedia page). Thus, the best thing clearly is, since you obviously know quite a bit about the subject, for you to simply rewrite the page in your own words. Thanks. Chick Bowen 23:11, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad[edit]

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United States Lacrosse at the 1928 Summer Olympics[edit]

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Railway Express Agency[edit]

Hi: I am LarryBH. I was copyediting your article Railway Express Agency, when I discovered trying to gain information elsewhere, that I found material that was word for word with your article for Wikipedia. The copyright on Smithsonian Institute was quite extensive. So, I placed your article for possible copyright violation. I know that this seems to be your article. I am not sure of the process, maybe you can seek the needed process. Best regards, LarryBH 18 December 2006

August 2009[edit]

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