User talk:AdamNewcomb

Welcome[edit]

Hello, AdamNewcomb! 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

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Hi[edit]

Hi everyone. I'm just checking things out.

History of citizenship in the United States[edit]

Hi, I saw your comment on the citizenship article. What's happened is that there have been battles on it about what's worthy -- serious chunks got deleted by being considered as "original research" and "not neutral" -- I initially wrote it on Wikipedia, but then I left, and when I was gone, it got stripped down. I moved the good article, with new stuff, to a "knol" here: History of citizenship in the United States. I think it's an interesting subject, but perhaps it is too contentious for WP, so if people want to delete the WP version, so be it. The good stuff is moving to knols anyway, and sooner or later, the smart readers will follow.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:33, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's much better, but it's long. The current wiki version skips the first few centuries and mainly talks about various people's views. What I saw the title I thought it'd talk about how one becomes a citizen and how rules changed over time. That's one problem, defining the scope of the article as there are many aspects to this. AdamNewcomb (talk) 22:52, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, good points. May I offer a few tips -- write something on your user page here then save it; that way your name won't light up red every time you do an edit, and your contributions are more likely to stick. Second, use colons to indent your comments (see above). If you need advice or tips, let me know.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revert explained[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Shawnee National Forest do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't add that link, I just reformatted it. AdamNewcomb (talk) 00:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the mistake, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:55, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. AdamNewcomb (talk) 01:22, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]