User talk:The Red Eyebrows
Hi Red Eyebrows. Let's try to solve this whole issue peacefully. I just posted a long message about it in the talk page. Madalibi (talk) 09:46, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- First off, cool name (after the rebel group, I see), and second of all, read this: Wikipedia:No personal attacks, and consider what you say before you say it on Wikipedia. If you make another personal attack, I'll lodge a formal complaint and you'll have a little talk with an administrator. Capiche? Or maybe I'll contact your mother and your high school principal there in Bay Area, CA! Lol. Seriously, kid.-Pericles of AthensTalk 13:35, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but all of this sounded fishy from the start. What kind of AP history teacher assigns homework at Wikipedia? That doesn't make any sense, and so far the multiple persons I appear to be having a conversation with haven't fully explained themselves (perhaps it's one prankster who has copied all of this info verbatim from a source). And if you don't understand how to make inline citations in Wikipedia, use this model here: <ref>Joe Schmo (1998), page 18.</ref>. "Joe Schmo" is just a joke, of course; that is where you put the name of the author you are citing. If you have any questions about how to cite sources (including online sources), visit this link here: Wikipedia:Citing sources. And as for this being "my page", no one owns this page, especially anonymous IPs. You must understand, I revert vandalism on a daily basis. I looked at your edits, how you deleted the name from the introduction, how you deleted my entire section from contributions, how you deleted all the original references, and thought: VANDAL, of course. My apologies if I "terrorized" little school girls, but quite frankly, I have doubts about that as well. Exactly why are you utilizing Wikipedia for your homework project?-Pericles of AthensTalk 13:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
If this was done as a school project, it should not get a top grade, because there are no inline citations. See Wikipedia:Citing sources. When you state something from ancient history is so, and you have the book in front of you which documents the facts claimed. please include an inline citation. It is not sufficient to write a long article, then list a number of books at the end of the article. The reader cannot be expected to obtain all the reference works, then read through them all page by page to verify where you found which claimed fact. Thanks. Edison (talk) 04:33, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- I hate to break good faith here, but I don't think this person is interested in playing by Wikipedia's rules. I think you, Edison, should simply revert this person's edits whenever they show up.-Pericles of AthensTalk 05:12, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- No need to judge Red Eyebrow's personal ethics Pericles. I think he simply does not have the technological know-how to provide inline citations. Perhaps if he sent you the information required to include such citations, you could be so kind as to do it for him. (Fan Chong (talk) 07:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC))
- Someone who seems to be in the same high school class as "Red Eyebrows" has done a very good job inserting inline citations in Guo Shoujing, and has thereby improved both her own essay and the wiki article in question. Since no technical know-how is needed to insert inline citations (just select the text you want to put in a note and then press the "ref/ref" button on the top right of your text window: that's it!), I'm sure Red Eyebrows is capable of doing the same thing. Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 09:33, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- It's not rocket science, Fan Chong. I even explained how to make citations above, in the previous section of this talk page. I even provided Red Eyebrows with a link so that he could read Wikipedia official policy and get to work putting citations in the places where I have tagged the article Hermias of Atarneus. So chop chop, get to it Red Eyebrows.-Pericles of AthensTalk 17:51, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Alright I'll have it done by tonight.