User talk:OldManCoyote
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia
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Elf 19:05, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Another psychic question
(Not meaning that i'm psychic and asking a question...) So cool that you're filling in old history on this! Probably not stuff we could find on the web as easily. I'm enjoying reading them. Thanks for filling in the National Psychical entry--helpful. You could also respond to similar questions here or on the person's talk page to let us know what you did, e.g., "Different. Created entry. ~~~~." :-)
ANYway, in the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, the Publications list Harry *Prince* as author but there's a Harry *Price* as the founder--typo? I didn't want to change it myself just in case. Elf 21:39, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Wiki standard formatting and such
Me again! Great to see another new user so productive. You might want to go back and take a look at the edits I've made to your new contributions, which were mostly:
- Wiki style is to include the bolded term as part of the first sentence, not as a separate preceding line, since the term will already appear as a title on the page.
- If the text is shorter than a couple of long paragraphs, that usually means there's a lot more info that *could* go there if someone had the info and the time. This is called a "stub"; you can include the text {{msg:stub}} to draw attention to the page and make it easier for searches for stubs to find (usually people with time to work on content).
- Try to identify terms that already exist in Wikipedia and add links. I've found that it doesn't take much time if I remember:
- Most noun articles are stored as singular rather than plural, hence e.g. [[shaman]]s finds the correct link to shaman but still leaves the plural in the text.
- Capitalization is (usually) important, but you can link to something that's a different form in your sentence by "piping"--looks like this: [[Religious conversion|converts]] links to the existing page Religious conversion but leaves the word converts in the text
- You can use the Show preview button at the bottom of the edit page to get a preview, including your guesses at links, click on the links to see whether they link anywhere, then use your browser Back button to get back to the edit page and adjust them, etc. until you're ready to Save page.
Anyway, looks like you're having fun doing this and I hope it continues. Elf 23:37, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Love your user name. :) RickK 04:47, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
