User talk:Bobkeyes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hello Bobkeyes! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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 someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name 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! Waitak 00:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] Algal oil

The article credits Isaac Berzin as having invented algal oils for biofuels. I am fairly sure this is inaccurate. The idea of using oil from Algae for fuel has been around at least since the 1970's US Government "Aquatic Species Program", if not before. Please fix.

Thanks for the comment. A couple of Some responses:

• The article doesn't really say that he invented it. It says that he recently developed it, which I think is accurate.
• That said, your comments are fair. How about contributing some text yourself to make it more accurate? That's what this "anybody can edit" business is all about, after all!
• Oh, one more small thing - when you add comments, please put ~~~~ to sign them, so we can who said what without digging through the history.

Thanks again, and I hope we see more of you around here! Waitak 00:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Bobkeyes 21:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the hints. Yes I am new, still learning the ropes. I hope I don't screw up too much!

[edit] Botryococcus braunii

Just wanted to say good work on the Botryococcus braunii article! Your list of contributions says that you're a new editor, but your content certainly doesn't look it. Waitak 09:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia methods

When people make changes to correct something they often put a comment in the history and don't bother with a discussion. So you should always look at the history to see why somebody made a change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vincecate (talk • contribs) 13:39, 28 February 2008 (UTC)