User talk:Fentonrobb
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[edit] Welcome
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[edit] Lawburrows
Consider yourself wikified. :) Basically, that means linking everything in sight :) and wiki format stuff. For example, to make separate paragraphs, insert a line between each (tab does no good), and to create bullet points, use the asterisk at the beginning of a line. Also, when you want to link directly to something, but want it to look somewhat different, you can use piped links. Two examples from the article: [[Evidence (law)|Evidence]] yields Evidence and [[James I of Scotland|James I]] yields James I. Also, I hope you don't mind, but I thought it was such a great article that I submitted it to DYK. Feel free to rewrite the text or (if it makes you uncomfortable) remove my nomination here. Oh, also, when you're logged in, you can sign your posts by putting four tildes: ~~~~. That automatically inserts your username and a datestamp. Keep up the good work! jengod 16:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- P.S. I'm an American, so if I copy edited anything American-style and it's driving you crazy b/c you go by Commonwealth or British or Scottish style or what have you, please feel free to change it back. The wiki standard is to spell/punctuate things on local articles in their local style. Ergo, articles about British TV are about programmes and articles about U.S. TV are about programs, etc. Thanks!
[edit] DYK
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[edit] On the Stern review
Hello Fentonrobb,
Some while ago (ca. 3 months), I posted on the talk page of the Stern review. Not wanting to do so, I nevertheless had apparently made an offensive and "threatening" impression on you. At the time, I was on the other hand so taken aback by your reply, that I did not feel like answering. I have today added a good number of "positive" quotes to the page, and rereading the talk, thought it might be sensible to clarify our disagreement of then. Realizing I am quite late in doing so, I would nevertheless wish to say I am sorry that you took my posting as so uncivil, as to move you to saying you would no longer edit the page until I had taken back my "threat" of "destroying" the page. It is true that I did not feel happy with the work that had been done by the previous editors, and was assuming malice in the formation of the article, so as to it being biased towards a global warming critical view. In retrospect, I must admit that this was unjust, and I should not have been so negative in my post. I hope you can accept my apology.
I also wanted to draw to your attention that, as I had mentioned above, I have done some changes today in the way I proposed back then, namely adding a large number of positive responses. If you still view this as destructive, I would be thankful if you could tell me why you see this so. Many kind regards, Sean Heron 17:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
