User talk:Insorak/Archive

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Welcome

Hello, Insorak! 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 clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ChyranandChloe (talk) 08:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images • create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Ebola

So you're interested in Ebola huh? Welcome to Wikipedia, you've been invited to join the virus wikiproject. Above is a standard introduction, it lists some useful links for reference. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. ChyranandChloe (talk) 09:00, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind welcome! :) Yes, I am interested in Ebola, but as an amateur biologist I'm also interested in most other viruses, and everything that has to do with them. Right now I'm working on my own little project - merging of Chopin's Ballades into one page - but once I'm done with that, I plan to clean up and expand some existing biology articles, like Anaerobic respiration (that one is particularly awful). I've also discovered WP:AFC, which I'll probably take advantage of eventually. :) I don't have any questions right now, but if I do I'll make sure to ask! Thanks! Insorak ♫ talk 19:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Better linking on WP

Hey, I just saw your request for review, and noticed that you linked 'NPC' improperly. Typically when you link with an acronym on WP (well, an initialism, technically), you should preview your post, then open that link in a new tab to make sure it really goes where you want it. In this case NPC leads to a disambiguation page, which links to other pages which could be what someone typing 'NPC' could be looking for. What you can do instead is type something like this...

[[NPC|Non-player character]]

Which produces this link to NPC. Pretty handy, right? Hope this helps! Lx45803 (talk) 19:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Yep, I knew about that (and have been employing it to my advantage). It's just that when I was writing that particular link, I didn't bother to check for anything like that. Thanks for your advice, though! :) Insorak ♫ talk 20:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Joe Wineke

Please be careful when undoing edits: what you signaled as blanking was clearly an effort to improve the article, as I'm sure you realized in your subsequent edit. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 22:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Right - sorry about that. I'm still a bit new here. :) Insorak ♫ talk 22:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Editor Review: done

I have done an editor review for you at Wikipedia:Editor review/Insorak/Archive. I hope that you find the review useful. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about it. Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 01:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your time! I'll get to responding to your questions between editing, homework, and editing while doing homework. :P Insorak ♫ talk 01:16, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Lincoln

Hi. On Lincoln you fixed a link that is part of an experiment. Do you remember how you came to do that? Please comment on Talk:Lincoln. Thanks! --Una Smith (talk) 17:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay - sorry about that, that was indeed a mistaken good faith edit and I did not realize it was part of the aforementioned experiment! (I thought that standard WP protocol was to bypass redirects, and I didn't see at the time any reason for it to be a piped redirect.) Once again, my mistake! Cheers! Insorak ♫ talk 19:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

No problem. I'm just curious how you came to notice the link. And how you came to the dab page. --Una Smith (talk) 20:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Ohh! I was doing my history homework on reconstruction after the Civil War. I searched for Lincoln, and I noticed that there was a redirect when I clicked on the Abraham Lincoln link. Insorak ♫ talk 21:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

For the reason for my questions, see this. --Una Smith (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the link, and, once again, sorry for disrupting your experiment! (As a biologist, I know the frustrations of having an experiment be messed up, even if unintentionally.) Insorak ♫ talk 19:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Greetings from the MCB WikiProject!

Hello, Insorak, welcome to the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject! I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Here are some ideas on how you can help:: Read our Manual of Style, guide to citing sources and try this citation tool Join in editing our collaboration of the month Have a look at some related projects and resources Improve articles on our worklist If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to post on the project talk page, or please drop me a note on my talk page. Again, welcome! Tim Vickers (talk) 17:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Chopin Ballades

Good job, Insorak. I did have a look through the other day, found very little I would change, and got distracted. I've now made a few very minor tweaks. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 09:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad to know that I can edit reasonably well. :P I hope we get to work together sometime in the future. Have a great day. Insorak ♫ talk 20:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

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