User talk:Th3 Halt

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Hello, Th3 Halt and 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 using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:09, 21 January 2012 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Bill Gates

Hi, and thank you for your contributions. This is a friendly observation about your recent edits to Bill Gates. You made this edit, which I reverted with an explanation. Subsequently, you re-made the same edit. Rather than re-making that edit, a better course of action would have been to discuss with me why you thought my explanation was incorrect, and your version better. Please see WP:BRD for an essay on this principle.

In the interests of collaboration, and as an alternative to seeing your edit reverted again, perhaps you'd like to take this opportunity to discuss why you feel so strongly about this point? The way it reads to me, and presumably to the person who wrote that sentence in the first place, is you are saying it's possible to be an author and a co-author at the same time. That's why the word or was used. Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 00:48, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for the message. I didn't mean to say it's possible to be an author and co-author at the same time. The way it sounded to me was Bill Gates authored several books by himself and co authored several books with other people. I am new to Wikipedia and heard some people revert stuff that has no reference even if it is minor. I did not see your summary of edit and the fact you reverted it until after I changed it back nor did I know people can see a whole list of edits and summaries of edits. Thank you for your message...however I still think "and" is more proper than "or" in this sentence. -Th3 Halt

I think this may be a question of personal style and what you're used to, and for that reason I don't intend to argue the point. In this case, it probably won't be misinterpreted. I'm glad you've had a chance to see how the edit history works. – Wdchk (talk) 03:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Haiti

Hello again. This is about your revert of an edit I made. What you are calling "sentences" are not sentences at all; they have no verb. Wikipedia's style guidelines, at least the ones I have seen, require such a sentence fragment to have no punctuation after it. The best example I could find, which I linked to in my edit summary, is here. I may have missed something, so if you have a reference to the Manual of Style (or another guideline) that says otherwise, I would be happy to see it. Also, my edit was designed to introduce some consistency. Please explain why you think some of those fragments should be punctuated, while other similar ones are not. Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 03:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)