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YASDE (Yet Another Sample Discussion Entry

New outlining scheme:

  1. Numbered items indicate sequence (of some sort)
  2. Kinds of sequence include
  • Temporal
  1. almost always from earliest to latest
  2. but sometimes from latest to earliest
  • Spacial
  • left to right
  • top to bottom
  • 等等
  • Importance
  1. Bullet indicate concurrent items
  1. concurrent items can be in any order
  2. However, alphabetical characters are better than bullets for identification purposes contribs]]) 00:16, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Boston Red Sox
  • Boston Celtics
    • Paul Pierce
    • Kevin Garnett
    • Ray Allen
    • Rajon Rondo
    • Brandon Bass
                    • JaJuan Johnson
  1. Bobby Doerr
  2. Jacoby Ellsbury
  3. Mike Aviles

Bgates3 (talk) 18:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Problematic Intersections

  • Storrow Drive
    • at JFK
    • at the BU Bridge
  • Memorial Drive
    • at River Street
    • at Western Ave

Mmelibrarian (talk) 17:48, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

HellSing

My favorite characters for HellSing are Alucard,Jan (although he didn't live long) and Incognito. Whose with me? CFyre (talk) 15:51, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


seems like a pain to get to the
bottom of a long talk page.

Aszona (talk) 18:23, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Puget Sound

Be there an island in this archipelago that is not named after one of the crew of the Wilkes expedition? signed (or maybe not, if I'm not putting this in the right place), Captain Puget (talk) 03:43, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps some that are only exposed at low tide? Captain Puget (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
The article on tidal islands says Camano Island (initially named by Wilkes, but renamed Camano by Henry Kellett) is an island at higher tides, but the article on Camano says it is separated by Davis Slough. °≈≠≤≥±°É╔╩╦ Maybe the slough dries up at low tide? Captain Puget (talk)

Oh to get to writing an article

It does seem like a lot of work to do.

  • Colons to learn
  • Asterisks

Not forgetting the

  • Octothorpes
  • Apostrophes
  • Equals signs
  • References (and the reference list code)

And always remembering to sign on the talk pages. Cek1958 (talk) 05:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

What is an Octorhorpe? PuppyLover16 (talk) 23:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
It's the proper name of #. 124.182.236.183 (talk) 02:06, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
It is not the proper name. Go to this link Number sign to see the many other names for this symbol. Sylvester8294 (talk) 11:27, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I prefer to use the colon method. Numbers bug me. It's a lot to learn. I thought it'd be easier to get to write something or improve a specific article. Now I'm trying to sign this. Nslarocque (talk) 19:36, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Another Boring Test

Indents are

easy
made using a colon

Bullets are

  • spotty
  • easy
    • as long as you remember to hit shift not 8
  • made using an astrix

Numbered points are

  1. easy
  2. useful for numbering things
    1. flow in numerical order
  3. are created by using hash — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.236.61 (talk) 00:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Testing

Testing

[1]

Testing

Jyi2 (talk) 18:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

  1. ^ [www.wikipedia.org www.wikipedia.org]. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

Hunting the invisible Talk Tab

Dokter Bluze (talk) 08:08, 2 February 2013 (UTC)Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).Clinical studies show neophites develop advanced neuroses when continually prompted to click tabs with no discernible purpose.[1] The trials showed that subjects' anger rose quickly when valuable time was wasted. Surprisingly, the study proved conclusively that other Web pages contain conflicting information.[2] especially those with egregious attitudinal malfunctions. Suddenly, order was restored in Wikiworld.

Sample Comment| TejasJ | rb... | 10:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Er tejas (talk • contribs)

  1. ^ Dong, Ding. "Button pushin' in the Rubber Room". Messin' With You Weekly. 1 (13): 12–15.
  2. ^ Neaujack, Ida. "Huh?". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

Another Section

Normal text.

Indented text.
Further indented text.
Even further indented text.
  • Unordered 1
  • Unordered 2
    • Unordered 2.1
  • Unordered 3
  1. Ordered 1
  2. Ordered 2
    1. Ordered 2.1
  3. Ordered 3 SolarStarSpire (talk) 00:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
    Ok is this right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.52.36 (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Can't Compete with the Above

  1. so I won't try
    1. hello world

Vaaaal (talk) 00:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

York Earwaker (talk) test section

  1. a
    1. numbered
      1. and
        1. indented
          1. list
  • a
  • buleted
      • list
        • also
          • indented

16:14, 18 February 2013 (UTC) date

This

set
of
words
is
indented

York Earwaker (talk) 16:14, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

hi

yes
no
maybe

Regancerza (talk) 23:49, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

CEP 811

===Wikipedia Practice===
  1. This is kinda of interting::

Ebudd5860 (talk) 13:17, 30 July 2012 (UTC) Ben Affleck Kathryn.Anne.Anderson (talk) 18:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

My best friend goes to school in Boston.

He says the Boston Marathon is absolutely crazy.
They pretty much shut down the entire campus: the race goes right by the back door of his dorm!
  • I like bullet points.
    • They make writing more interesting and concise.

Stetsec (talk) 13:33, 11 March 2013 (UTC)stetsecStetsec (talk) 13:33, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Large Countries

Large countries come in two forms

Area
  • Russia
  • Canada
  • U.S.
  • China
  • Brazil
Population
  • China
  • India
  • U.S.
  • Indonesia
  • Brazil

Do you see a pattern?

Paulusromanus (talk) 07:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Discuss

Almutwafy (talk) 12:38, 19 March 2013 (UTC)


Nash K's Sample Talk Entries

This is my first Talk Page Entry

I need to try indenting
And More Indenting
* A Bullet List might look good here
# A numbered list looks like this
## Add its Child looks like this
# Nah. This is just playing around
* And some more fooling around
and they reminded me to put in my username and timestamp
Nashontheweb (talk) 11:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm testing this. Wikipedia! Wooooooh! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.156.133.67 (talk) 00:05, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

how much wood can a woodchuck chuck

there is no woodchuchs86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

yes there are86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
no ther arnt86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
goodbye geeks86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
  • truths
  1. i am epic86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
  2. more epic that you86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
  3. jokes!!!!86.142.243.95 (talk) 22:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

108.230.65.221 (talk) 15:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)== Best Practices ==

This is an example of a talk post

this is an indent
this is another indent
this is another indent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.132.42.114 (talk) 19:24, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Angelainmpls (talk) 18:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Test reply — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.58.241.217 (talk) 06:30, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Another test reply with the two colon indent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sylvester8294 (talk • contribs) 09:34, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Another test reply with the three colon indent. This time signed with the four tilde symbols. Sylvester8294 (talk) 09:53, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Whatever happened to the woodchuck? denise108.230.65.221 (talk) 15:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

My Thoughts on This Talk Page

Most of the things written on this talk page make no sense to me. 00:17, 14 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.1.61 (talk)

Let's talk about Backyard Chickens

Pros and Cons

Pros

  1. They Produce tons of eggs
    1. No need to buy pesticide eggs anymore
      1. Cancer-free omelets
  2. Super fun

Cons

  1. Chicken poop
  • Stankyness
    • Neighbors may get cranky

Katalina1981

Katalina1981 (talk) 23:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Katalina1981

New Section - This is only a test

indent

further indent
even further indent
further indent

Bullet Points

  • very important
    • super important
    • second super important
  • very very important
  • whatever

Numbered List

  1. one
  2. two
    1. two point two
      1. three

Terri.T (talk) 23:36, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

and yet another section!

hello, world! Clowiebear (talk) 03:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

CHEESE

Reasons for cheese world domination.

  • It's awesome
-Cheryl J. Gross (talk) 01:06, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
  • Billy Mays
  • It isn't square; and anything square sucks ;)
  • I take that back, anything triangular sucks
  • It just kind of is.

--Sciencegey (talk) 21:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Actually, anything that is a pentagon sucks.

All other shapes are quite good. In fact, I hate all the shapes that have 5 or more sides, circle included. -- Tary123 (talk) 11:39, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Clearly we are all out of shape.

EstockGuru (talk) 20:53, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

When I started a new section, it just tacked my new section onto the previous section as an edit and didn't show any of the text I edited at all, but it was in the editing window when i went into the edit window

Help! Help! I'm Being Repressed! This is a second Test of the Emergency Talk-casting system frannie (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Okay Here We Go Again Let's Do This

Here We go on our way!

indenting once
and this
and this
is anybody out there?
gosh I hope not this is embarrassing


Now here's a list

  • Perspicacious
  • McGillicutty
  • Grunties


How about an ordered List

  1. Jockeying for Position
  2. Monty Python Rules
  3. Now I'm revealing my Age, don't you think?

I don't suppose this will stay here for long :) What say we discuss installing plumbing in the Gobi Desert? I'm sure they'd love some there...Have fun and don't undergo Defenestration it's not very fun. [1] frannie (talk) 17:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

  1. ^ http://www.barfandgag.org

Test Section

This is so weird, talking about colorful elephants...

I am confused
Confused am I!
Third indentation level, whoo!!!
Today I have learned that other people create test-text as random as mine.
All these tests are so strange! But I think I understand indents now... FrancescaBouaoun (talk) 23:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Babar is an elephant, and he is gray. However, he wears a crown [1], which I am pretty sure is unusual in elephants. Staplesque (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)


Dumbo is an elephant with big ears.
He isn't scared of mice. Dianehn (talk) 07:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I love both Babar and Dumbo. They were fixtures of my childhood. Lucym141 (talk) 01:02, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

A new section

This is a third level heading

Just Laugh

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary and those who don't. Did you understand the joke?

This is another third level heading

First indent.
Second indent.
and so on...
and so on and on....
  • Bullets.
  • Bullets.
  1. Can you read 1?
  2. Can you read 2?

Line to be cited[2]

Click here to go to wikipedia page for The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), a non-profit, marine conservation society.
This ends my first ever edit on wikipedia. Now I am a proud wikipedian!!:-) GunjanPB (talk) 14:31, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

A New Section

This is a new section. -Outception (talk) 04:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree but do you have a source? In any case it is a pretty generic new section, not that that is a criticism you understand. PsycicSanta (talk) 12:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

blahh blah I have said source.

yeah yeah i know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlissajade (talk • contribs) 00:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello World! :) --Aireadfan (talk) 06:56, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
testing and signing 72.208.78.196 (talk) 23:57, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello World indeed!Tim.mcarthur (talk) 14:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

This is ifigoup learning how to do Wikipedia. Ifigoup (talk) 14:34, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

There is no 'discuss this page' or 'discussion' option to select

Frustration

Having to learn code is not what I signed up for
  • Editing
  • Formatting
  • Talk Pages
  • cheat sheet
  • linking
  • refrences
All of these instruction apply only to learn Wikipedia and are unrelated to writing a research paper
AGREED, not sure why so much formatting is necessary?
can't they make generic templates -- creating a new page is practically impossible...

Carmen Rosenberg-Miller (talk) 16:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)


I understand completely, i'm tired of doing all of this examples for this tutorials.
There should be a much easier way to learn how to learn and use wikipedia.
This is alot of work for just one websiteBeb125 (talk) 01:12, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Agreed here, this is a little bit more tricky then I thought it would be.
But hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon.
I need to practice these three things
  1. Editing
  2. Writing
  3. Creating Citations
  1. Especially with journal entries --Rlwomalley (talk) 20:56, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
It's definitely more complicated than I thought it would be. But I think it might be good for these reasons:
  • It's a marketable job skill
  • It makes me feel smart
  • It gives me something to do when I'm bored
  • It has potential to be a good cocktail party topic... if I ever attend a cocktail party


KatieMF19 (talk) 14:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I am distressed that there is no options as instructed for selections

  1. There is no discuss this page option to select
  2. There is no discussion option to select

Glad I'm not the only having issues.Norimaro (talk) 05:24, 3 September 2012 (UTC) irritating

I totally get the frustration aspect. However, having never done anything like this before, it's kind of nice to feel like I'm branching out.tdsingletree (talk) 02:47, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
I agree with you! I'm learning this as I've been asked to create a page and totally didn't realise there's so much to be aware of. Hope I don't annoy anyone with my inexperience, although it's really interesting to learn :) Tocris (talk) 14:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Tocris, I agree. I'm having to build a page from scratch too and didn't know there was so much to learn.
  1. All the different keyboard commands.
  2. Wikipedia etiquette.
  3. Wikipedia style.Ifigoup (talk) 14:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear

Fuzzy Wuzzy Had No Hair
So Fuzzy Wuzzy Changed His Name
To Kojak !
Did that work?--Bookaholic214 (talk) 01:35, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Learning Wiki
--206.87.36.245 (talk) 21:33, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Audie Info (talk) 12:42, 28 June 2013 (UTC) Infoassist (talk) 17:38, 18 July 2013 (UTC)InfoassistInfoassist (talk) 17:38, 18 July 2013 (UTC) [3]

  1. ^ http://babar.treehousetv.com/
  2. ^ This should be under references section.
  3. ^ Smith

Kangaroos in Asia

I am quite sure that there are huge purple kangaroos almost the size of elephants in Pakistan and India. These sources tell the same.

Why don't you go to Pakistan or India and see for yourself? There are some good reasons to do so:

  1. You can sunbathe in the heat
  2. You can visit the Himalayas.
    1. Also Mt. Everest if you stop by at Nepal
  3. You can learn many languages such as:
    1. Urdu
    2. Hindi
    3. Bengali
    4. South Indian languages like:
      1. Tamil
      2. Telugu
      3. Kannada
      4. Malayalam

Tary123 (talk) 09:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

I completely agree!
  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Krizmos (talk) 04:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
There is also a well know phobia of purple kangaroos, commonly know as Deep Purple.

Hossf (talk) 22:26, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

I know a Latin teacher who was born in St. Louis three months after his family flew over from India, specifically Kerala. His parents both spoke Malayalam (a very unusual language, which you will notice is a palindrome) at home, but told him and his brother to speak only English. He can't read or write it, but can recognize it and can understand someone speaking it. Until he went to school, he had never heard the letter V pronounced. In fact, he got a postcard a little while ago from his father from Switzerland; it was signed "Best Vishes". He is quite an interesting man, and a great teacher! Lucym141 (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

109.231.194.69 (talk) 09:59, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I have decided to randomly edit this page. I am currently coding but am finding it very difficult to stay motivated. I am trying to see all the challenges and making myself work for at least an hour before I take a break, it seems to be working but it takes a huge amount of discipline. But then life would not be so interesting without discipline.I am also trying to teach myself how to touch type and its going quite well.

I am trying to do a few things in my spare time:

  • Studying Martial Arts
  • Taiji
  • Bagua
  • Learn Tamil
  • Read books
  • Self help books
  • Philosophical books

Surfing the net while Eating

Category:Surfing the net while Eating

Discussions

This is not a good habbit. Pandadai (talk) 06:20, 10 May 2013 (UTC)


Here We go on our way!

indenting once
and this
and this
is anybody out there?
gosh I hope not this is embarrassing


Now here's a list

  • Perspicacious
  • McGillicutty
  • Grunties


How about an ordered List

  1. Jockeying for Position
  2. Monty Python Rules
  3. Now I'm revealing my Age, don't you think?

I don't suppose this will stay here for long :) What say we discuss installing plumbing in the Gobi Desert? I'm sure they'd love some there...Have fun and don't undergo Defenestration it's not very fun. [1]

  1. ^ http://www.barfandgag.org

frannie (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

List

In one space
In two spaces
In Three spaces

Numbers

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three

Indents

Elephants and colours and...testing?

So imaginative! But just testing...

  • Something about elephants
    • Add something about their colour?
  • Back to this point! — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrancescaBouaoun (talk • contribs) 23:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


Donovan612 (talk) 02:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC) Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puntaalpo (talk • contribs) 05:33, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

No colored elephants listed on wiki page

It occurs to me that ideally information provided by Wikipedia on elephants would be self-consistent, but I do not find references to elephants known to have any color but grey[1]: Wikipedia article on elephants.Evoltomlove (talk) 02:51, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Below are preceding comments about elephants reputed to be of colors other than grey:

Previous comments on non-grey elephants

It may be necessary to discuss various purple elephants:
  • plum elephants
  • mauve elephants
    • indigo elephants

and everyone's favorite:

  • eggplant elephants, including:
  1. parmesan
  2. ratatouille
  3. plain sauteed

See all of these under the category of rainbow elephants--Bixworth (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Christophernix1975 03:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)Hello — Preceding unsigned comment added by Super dilated (talk • contribs) 06:12, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

I really don't have a clue what you're taking about, and elephants only come in gray/grey.--May puppies fly before pigs do. (talk) 02:26, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

I think I prefer grey kittens.Carriemacfar (talk) 19:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

PRACTICE

There are three activities I enjoy the most:

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Drinking wine with friends

Amags55 (talk) 19:42, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

What is to enjoy in writing? MAGTHE (talk) 12:33, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
But why not? Thebonesknow (talk) 18:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Why? Frankieclarke (talk) 17:37, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
because--Iamcorbin (talk) 06:03, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
No. Zosterman (talk) 09:55, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

This is how you change indents if they become too long --DBigXray 08:50, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Wine is always goodAlimacd (talk) 02:21, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
The cake is a lie! Alexander Weber (talk) 14:06, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Writing helps you organize your thoughts! :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.245.109 (talk) 01:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
    • ...
...
    • ...

This is my first convo

2nd
3rd
one million conversations! muhahahhaha
  1. First Item
  2. Second Item
    1. Item 2.1
  3. Third Item

YawnCraig158258 (talk) 22:21, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

There's more than one way of skinning a cat. Jbell6894 (talk) 23:14, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

False. Skinning cats should be done in only one manner.
I disagree. look at this article Cats
Skinning cats is immoral and against the Will of God Popegrutch (talk) 22:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I think it essential that we identify a polygon that does not suck. A dodecahedron has substantial non-sucking potential.

Chiliagons also show promise.

--Odellhuff (talk) 14:17, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Chiliagon

testing foo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.51.184.11 (talk) 23:08, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Testing bar 209.51.184.11 (talk) 23:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

This is wikipedia study for class

Psychology

Tutorial

Exciting Byung do jung (talk) 04:09, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

AmbitiousFilmMaker is my name

It's also the name for these following social media websites:

  • Facebook
  • YouTube
    • This one is really important because this was its first appearance
  • And Twitter

So yeah, that was a bullet test.

Now for the indenting test
More and more indents...
And more...
And even more...
And this is the last one.

Cool!

My favorite things about my YouTube videos:

  1. They're cool
  2. They're funny
  3. They're well made because:
    1. I have an HD camera
    2. I choose good angles; overall good cinematography
    3. And people agree with me, so yeah...
  4. The music score generally fits very well with the scene

Well now, was this a test or an advertisement for my YouTube channel?

...Who knows? Just subscribe already! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmbitiousFilmMaker (talk • contribs) 21:06, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Testing

  • I am trying to figure this out

Nice practice

This is a good section for practice how to use it. Yaxian (talk) 17:00, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I was shocked by the length of this article.
  • first try
  • sencond try
    • more specific
  • last try
Yaxian (talk) 17:00, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

It took long enough!

I can't believe it has taken me this long to find this tutorial, after using Wikipedia for many years and always stressing about minor edits I submitted since I didn't know exactly what the preferred practices were. --Azaghal of Belegost (talk) 20:18, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Test Like always

  • There once was a man
    • WHo lived by a dwarf
  • Why

152.3.245.97 (talk) 16:28, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Did he want to look taller? --SvenShaw (talk) 13:41, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Probably--SvenShaw (talk) 13:41, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

His reasons were as follows:

  • He was short
  • He wanted to look taller
  • He thought that living next to midgets would achieve this.

--SvenShaw (talk) 13:41, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Did it work out for him?
--Azaghal of Belegost (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Trial Post by a Newbie

This is a trial post on a talk page to try and learn the technique. I hope this turns out as I plan! My goals in editing Wikipedia are as follows:

  • Contribute to the knowledge base by adding new topics
  • Correct things I know to be wrong and provide citations as evidence — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexmead (talk • contribs) 23:31, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Larmaz

Indenting, is it working?
What would your mother say if she saw you with that guy?
And who would you be if you walked down the line?
Ample indentation
  • bullet points
    • heylo
  1. you are my sunshine
  2. my only sunshine
    1. you make me happy when skies are grey
  3. you'll never know dear
    1. how much I love you
      1. please don't take my sunshine away

Laramiefinlayson (talk) 19:12, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

  1. pretty sure it should be:
"You are my Solskjaer, my Ole Solskjaer,
 you make us happy when skies are grey,
 coz when it's pouring you just keep scoring,
 please don't take our Solskjaer away. AVØ (talk) 16:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi to all the people

Hi all the readers of this darling addition.

  1. Hi to you again

01:33, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

New Section

Hello.

Indent
Another indent
  • Point 1
  • Point 2

Moses supposes his toeses are roses, yet Moses supposes erroneously. A rose is a roses, and a toes is a toes. Good movie.

That's fun. Let's go correct some grammar! 3DFilmaker (talk) 16:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

New And Confused Section

I need to do a project and it's practically due tomorrow. Hope this makes sense! Capineda (talk) 06:40, 13 December 2013 (UTC) 01:40, 13 December 2013 (EST)

heading

Pineapples are pineapples — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayjay0661 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

heading2

heading 3

heading4

  64.92.53.159 (talk) 21:11, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I NEED TO STOP MAKING HEADINGS!!! --Parrot Brain (talk) 21:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

BAM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anon422 (talk • contribs) 01:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Reverted edit

My recent edit to the Bullet points section was reverted by Technical 13. I'm open to discussing the edit. What are the objections to my changes? – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 22:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

  • Seeing where as the edit was based on a discussion on my talk page, where there seems to be some disagreement, I feel it may be better to find out what the actual community consensus is before making any changes to any tutorial or policy or guideline. A discussion that uses proper threading can be (an often is) very difficult to read and see who said what (and I've personally misquoted people three or four times because I could not see where one persons post ends and another starts). Proper threading is suppose to work in a manner such as:
Lead post
* Response #1 to lead post
* Response #2 to lead post
** Response to response #2
* Response #3 to lead post
** Response #1 to response #3
** Response #2 to response #3
*** Response #1 to response #3-2
**** Response #1 to response #3-2-1
* Response #4 to lead post
When proper threading such as this happens, especially if there is a long post by a single user or many, many responses to a single post, it can very quickly become difficult to see where one post leaves off and the next starts. For this reason, I would prefer to have the bullet at Wikipedia:TPO#fixformat reworded to read: "Fixing format errors that render material difficult to read. In this case, restrict the edits to formatting changes only and preserve the content as much as possible. Examples include fixing indentation levels, fixing list markup, using <nowiki> and other technical markup to fix code samples, and providing wikilinks if it helps in better navigation."
Changing from using bullets or numbers or unmarked indentation is a matter of personal preference that falls under changes because JUSTDONTLIKEIT, and should be avoided. — {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 01:16, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
I was unaware of the discussion on your talk page at the time I made the edit; my apologies for not seeing it. My edit was actually based on the edit summary you used in a revert at Village pump (technical).
A lot of your post reads as arguing for changes to the Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (hell, you even quote the exact changes you want made). I won't respond to most of that here, since this isn't the appropriate place to discuss such changes. If you want to make a proposal affecting these guidelines, post at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines.
Here are how I read your objections to my edit on the tutorial page:
  1. You perceive a lack of consensus regarding the status of the talk page guidelines on which I based my edit.
  2. You would prefer bullets be used for indenting all talk page replies.
  3. You feel how an editor indents their replies should be their personal choice.
Points 2 and 3 go against the current talk page guidelines. I think our main bone of contention is point 1: do those guidelines have consensus? Thus far yours is the only objection I have seen. The relevant part of the guideline is not recent, but has had similar wording for a few years. Changes to guidelines without consensus are usually reverted quickly; that no one has done so is an indicator of consensus. Even if the consensus were in doubt, it is the norm that a guideline continues to apply until there is sufficient consensus to change it.
In my view, my edit brought the tutorial further into line with a current consensus, and made it more consistent with the talk page guidelines as they stand. You are welcome to propose changes to the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines. Should such proposals gain consensus, then this tutorial should then change to match, of course. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 23:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

05:44, 20 June 2014 (UTC) Don't know why, but suddenly got a lvl 3 warning on a particular post for no apparent reason.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomdice (talk • contribs) 05:44, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

My Heading

My Sub-Heading
My Sub-sub-Heading
and so on . . .
it never ends.
Tingiraffe (talk) 09:52, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

test 456

This is a test

  • test one
  • test two
  • test three
    • test three sub
  • test four

Militaryguy70 (talk) 18:15, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Testing

So I was wondering, when is now? btw this is my username: Spacefoxy (talk) ...here is the date 16:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC) and this should be my signature Spacefoxy (talk) 16:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

this should be indented once
twice
thrice ;) Spacefoxy (talk) 16:04, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

TESTING

AGerry.y.ma (talk)
A1Gerry.y.ma (talk) 01:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
A1A01:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
  1. 1
  2. 2
  • 1
    • 2

HI

I am joan it's just practiceJoan lama (talk) 12:50, 15 August 2014 (UTC) teroJoan lama (talk) 12:52, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Editing content

How do you ensure that a suggestion for an edit of an existing page will be read? Baisili (talk) 04:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

eg if I want to change the sentence from this article: "If you have a question, concern or comment related to improving an article put a note in the article's talk page and not in the article itself." how will others know where to find it, especially if it is a long article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baisili (talk • contribs) 04:45, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

just testing

  • a
  • b
  • c
  1. a
  2. b
  3. c
a
b

152.3.245.81 (talk) 17:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Growing Up in Fulton Kentucky

She was growing up with her family in Fulton Kentucky. With her owners Dallas,Stephanie,Madison Erinn, and D.J. Their is also a cat named Genie that she loves to play with. And to attack in their sleep. LOL. She and Genie are really close friends. I know they get on each others nerves somettimes but i know that they love each other. :) :) :) :) :) :) Maggie May(Model) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.187.21.226 (talk) 19:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

  1. What county is Fulton, Kentucky, in?
    1. Where does the cat sleep when it's not in bed?
      1. What is the name the cat next door?
        1. I believe her name is Maggie Krystal M Thomas (talk) 14:33, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
          1. Most cats like their formal titles so she would be Margaret. Aaron Michael Phelps (talk) 14:57, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
How much of an editor do you want to be?

Now please sign your name. (Ragazine (talk) 01:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC))

I was born in Kentucky! 1. not Fulton but fort Campbell. (sperry073)

I was not born in Kentucky. But I drove through the state once, in 1984.Yanavico (talk) 16:13, 14 March 2014 (UTC)


Lee Nielle Mayol (also known as Lee) born on July 1 2000. Currently studying at Maternelle Academy


This is practice. I hate computers and typing in this code thing! Stephaniee20 (talk) 03:51, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Environmental Issues

There are many environmental issues that need to be addressed
  • Climate change
  • Plastic pollution
  • Ocean Acidification

152.3.245.75 (talk) 19:50, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Practicing text editing

Okay, these elephant journals agree with me:
* Elephants Monthly
* Elephants World
Qg7784me (talk) 17:23, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

" Just little ole me"

Testing
* Testing again

PSY4930 (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Yay! Bobthetoad (talk) 22:17, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Practice Editing

Intro to Research

The fact that I've been working on this homework for six hours now is ridiculous because:

  • I haven't slept in two days
  • I have more important fish to fry
  • I hate this class
  • I probably still edited this post wrong even though I've done a handful of research on Wikipedia at this point

Sarah Eddy (talk) 01:32, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Blah

Blah blah blah blah blah Simescu (talk) 18:34, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

  • blah blah blah Simescu (talk) 18:36, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Sample new section

Sample starting text Camarouge (talk) 09:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Sample reply Camarouge (talk) 09:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Sample unsigned reply
It's back '-' Camarouge (talk) 09:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Space Cadet

It's . . . Its . . . Monty Python's Family Guy 04:33, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Monty Python's Family Guy! Its . . . Monty Python's Family Guy 04:33, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

The dog jumped over the lazy fox

The dog jumped over the lazy fox. العضو التناسلي النسوي الدجاج (talk) 01:28, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The dog jumped over the lazy fox. العضو التناسلي النسوي الدجاج (talk) 01:28, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
The dog jumped over the lazy fox. العضو التناسلي النسوي الدجاج (talk) 01:28, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
The dog jumped over the lazy fox. العضو التناسلي النسوي الدجاج (talk) 01:28, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The dog jumped over the lazy fox

The dog jumped over the lazy fox. チキンたわごと (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

The dog jumped over the lazy fox. チキンたわごと (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
The dog jumped over the lazy fox. チキンたわごと (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
The dog jumped over the lazy fox. チキンたわごと (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
The dog jumped over the lazy fox. チキンたわごと (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Heading

Is this a paragraph?[2]

Yes it is.
No it's not. Here's why:
  1. It is not indented.
  2. It has only one sentence
    1. Paragraphs should have at least three sentences.

Oh. I see. Sera Mills (talk) 20:54, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

  1. ^ Wikipedia article on elephants,
  2. ^ I don't really know.

I too test

Testing. Ssrosen (talk) 21:15, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Brilliant

How to add to this??

  1. wonderful
  2. brilliant
  3. i should be at work
  • i actually am at work. :P Aolivex (talk) 00:23, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
  • how depressing
    • listening to christina aguilera
well hello there
want to dance?
I'd love to dance! What kind?
Let me know
--KeepCoolDon'tFreeze (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

A.kob123 (talk) 11:24, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Testing 123

My split personality

It's called Football
No it's not, it's called Soccer. Football is another game.
Only in America 152.3.245.99 (talk) 19:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Actually, the British invented the term "soocer", then apparently abandoned it in favor of "football" when the term "soccer" became too American for them. SurlyNotFurious (talk) 20:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
You play that game with every single limb so why is it called football?
Eh, I'll let you call it whatever you want.
Err, one more thing, why do you call petrol 'gas' when it's clearly a liquid?
Because "gas" is short for "gasoline" --Dylanm312 (talk) 20:57, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Aaaaaaargghh
Hahaha.

This is all me, just testing out these features on Wiki --Loislawr (talk) 20:00, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I am doing the same Naa478 (talk) 18:37, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Just Playing around with the chat functions in Wikipedia

My username is dabmb Dabmbmao (talk) 15:07, 18 April 2014 (UTC)(dabmbmao) 10:06, 18 April 2014(UTC)

  1. one
  2. two
    1. two and a half

Hi, it's Jared

    1. hi
    2. hello
    3. byeJayjay0661 (talk) 15:26, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, all. This is SbaOnline. I'm here talking about the Sandbox editable article. I have 3 questions:

    1. Will this indent and number?
    2. "Why won't this italicize as well as number and indent? (I'm using quotes.)"
    3. ""'Why won't this bold and italicize as well as number and indent? (I'm using 2 sets of quotes plus added apostrophes on either side.)'""
I think you need to use only apostrophes for bold and indent... Let's try:
  1. I think this is the answer you are looking for
You are correct. You need to use single quotes (') rather than double quotes (") in order for Wikipedia to parse your edit correctly. --Dylanm312 (talk) 21:01, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

07:34, 9 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by IcehouseCover (talk • contribs)

Laura's New Section

Here I am going to practice indenting.

I don't see any indenting in this section yet.
Where is it? Elschofield (talk) 03:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
  1. i am vikas soni
    1. i live at kudra kaimur bihar


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Testing//

Hi. JAN19201r (talk) 16:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Can't people impersonate each other?

sample discussion entry

this is a sample discussion entry Rsamot (talk) 03:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

This is not very useful.

Drmcarroll (talk) 17:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC) 18:53 20Sep2012 (GMT)

This is my attempt at editing:Scmadscientist (talk) 20:59, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

First Name: Maggie Middle name: jullian Whole name is Maggie jullian --68.187.21.226 (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

We got her in May. And we also thought she looked like a Maggie. So we took both the month that we got her and her first name and put them together to get Maggie May.
Love that sweet little kitty(Maggie May)...............
LOVE YOU MAGGIE MAY.......................
Modeling is what she should do all the time.
This is quite the indenting! --152.3.245.94 (talk) 02:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

And send an e-mail to erinnmadison@yahoo.com

How low can you go--Althusius (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
[Lower] than you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.28.161.148 (talk) 15:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
If you do i will send you a photo of Maggie May. Okay now if you want to you must send a email to me.


Very difficult to read this. Maybe a few newline have to be added. - STrek77 (talk) 11:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Newline --Dhieber (talk) 01:44, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Colors: Black, White,with pink ears and pink nose. Eye color: Green

mine are blue - STrek77 (talk) 11:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Mine are green and blue
  • Bullet 1
  • Bullet 2
    • Bullet 2.2
  1. Number 1
  2. Number 2 - HannahAshlea (talk) 10:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I once knew a girl with pretty eyes of blue
She was the same to me as she is to you
She loved things with a romantic hue
Never a girl was e'er so true
Marina altee (talk) 16:49, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
testing talk
and the testing continuesVolund NL (talk) 23:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
testign again Sgt.PeppersLonelyHeartClubsBand (talk) 17:33, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Continue testing.--Weonix (talk) 14:27, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I quite enjoy the poetic conversation above. My eyes are blue and I am new to wikipedia. --139.225.245.61 (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Whoop Whoop

We come from St. Olaf

We sure are the real stuff
Our team is the cream of the colleges great

We fight fast and furious

  1. Our team is injurious
  2. Tonight Carleton College will sure meet its fate

Um Ya Ya! Rachelbash1 (talk) 15:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC) Please no bakwas yaar


--68.187.21.226 (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2012 (UTC)Maggie May

Another test

Hello

1
2

--159.28.161.148 (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

This is a test

I am writing stuff on a weird wiki page.

How come?
I am not sure about that.
It seems you're good at it.
Well, thank you for two reasons:
  • For your kind remark.
  • For wasting my time.

Alright that's probably it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EducationKnight (talk • contribs) 22:47, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm a fan of this type of banter. Superkid333 (talk) 00:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Testing

What's up with the hot dogs? They're jumping around![1] 

 Holy smokes, you're right!
   Of course I'm right![2]
      No, you write.  But who ever said you were right?
         I have rights, right?
            Not if you drift too far right...
              Wrong!
                        --CapeMaleas (talk) 17:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

fffff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lionel Joseph Kiernan (talk • contribs) 09:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Testing

Tristanclew (talk) 19:19, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Test — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.88.146.94 (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

pi

There are two types of people in the world, those who can infer from incomplete data.........

Coincidentally,
pi= 3.14159265358979323

Minecraftwizard (talk) 18:26, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

路过Xiahong (talk) 15:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

xia's test

hello,any one heard of BUPT university?Xiahong (talk) 15:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Endlessly Testing

Proceeds with

  • End
less
ly
  • Test
ing.

And signing off.

Tristanclew (talk) 10:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Where is your proof of this?

I have proof
Do you?

152.3.245.73 (talk) 20:20, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

[3]

Hi

Hello Keithpaulmedelis (talk) 22:24, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello

Onesilos88 (talk) 03:32, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

1, 2, 3 mic check.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Human3015 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
@Tristanclew how are you budy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Human3015 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
@Keithpaulmedelis how are you? nice to meet you. --Human3015 13:27, 23 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Human3015 (talk • contribs)

dsjncs cdjnbsd jacdnc nadnv --~~Human3015~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Human3015 (talk • contribs) 13:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

YASDE (Yet Another Sample Discussion Entry

My eyes are brown(ish)
  • Maybe closer to hazel)
  • Definitely not teal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denswei (talk • contribs) 00:08, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Who are the 5 best rappers of all time you ask?

  1. dylon
  2. dylon
  3. Common — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.172.85 (talk) 11:36, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

...

  1. dylon
  2. and dylon! CUZ I SPIT HAWT FIYAH! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmoney247 (talk • contribs) 06:07, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Kid InkPredatorJ228 20:34, 6 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PredatorJ228 (talk • contribs)
  1. Am i really able to just delete any discussion? How to stop someone from coming in here and deleting all of this?

Human3015 13:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC) hi whats up? --Human3015 13:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Human3015 (talk • contribs)

Test

Hey! I'm just saying that thus tutorial is helping! This is really just a test, not a comment or question User270803 (talk) 00:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC) User270803 (talk) 00:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Test

This article Editing Wikipedia has really been a great help. Thank you whoever thought of it!Smileyroseme (talk) 19:41, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Bucks for Brains

Aura school students are raising money for their school! There name is bucks for brains! "Please make donations!", said former club president KK. "This will be fun!", said former club vice president Madison Kimley. "Are school will be way better by the time we are done!", said former secretary Natalie Seeney. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bucks for Brains (talk • contribs) 20:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Creating a page about "Zero Time Exercise"

I have tried to create a page about "Zero Time Exercise", an exercise concept advocated by a professor at The University of Hong Kong, and had considerable media coverage in Hong Kong since 2015. And I have tried to put the links showing the media coverage. Maybe because this concept is rather new, the page was deleted twice. Thus, please kindly advise how this page can be created. Bao Bao Leung 0218 (talk) 04:32, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

  1. ^ jumping hot dogs
  2. ^ absolutism
  3. ^ [I know everything]
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