User talk:Dz0

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some tips to help you get started:

• Read the Tutorial, and feel free to experiment in the Sandbox.
• Eventually, you might want to read the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines.
• If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk or ask me on my talk page.
• To sign your name on a talk page, please finish your comments with ~~~~ (four tildes). The wiki will insert a link to your userpage and the timestamp.
• Not every subject needs its own page. Sometimes it is wiser to deal with certain subjects together on one page. See Wikipedia:Merge and Wikipedia:Redirect for some background. You may want to review Avoiding common mistakes to get started quickly.
• Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Good luck! JFW | T@lk 22:52, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

---

[edit] Happiness

I was the one who removed your links in happiness, and I've done this again. External links are added to Wikipedia by the truckload, and these may be nice but not selective enough. I wonder why you've singled out "Formula of Happiness" as a book, because there are hundreds of self-help books with this theme available. JFW | T@lk 22:52, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Happiness

hi, I think "Formula of Happiness" isn't just another primitive self-help book. It is written by a scientist (biophysic) and an editor of "Spiegel" and "Geo" (in 1996-2000). The book is based on many contemporary experiments about human nature and they are presented in easy to understand publicistic fashion (not a too complicated language, I mean - the same what I like about Wikipedia;). I myself am an analytic person and I found lots of rational and argumented things there.

Book doesn't state, "do thees 10 things and You'll definitely become happy!", instead it sais - "probably there are 6'000'000'000 ways to become happy" ;)

Please, take a look at http://www.stefanklein.info/en/texte_autor/intro.html 6-th paragraph to become sure of the intention of the book.

The author's credentials mean little. If you had posted a link to a similar book by René Diekstra (a Dutch professor of psychology and author of many similar books) I would also have removed it. Unless the book advances a major new theory about happiness that has found wide public acclaim or scientific backing, it does not have what it takes to become part of the Wikipedia page.

You seem to confuse "interesting" with "encyclopedic". This is an encyclopedia, and although it is written by amateurs we maintain certain standards; one of them is that external links do more than just link at something that someone might find interesting. We've got Google for that. Wikipedia should ideally only link to Dr Klein's book if it would have been quoted in a "real" encyclopedia like the Brittannica or the Brockhaus. JFW | T@lk 08:56, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The National Student Academy (Lithuania)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as The National Student Academy (Lithuania), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.nmakademija.lt/en, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:The National Student Academy (Lithuania) and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:The National Student Academy (Lithuania) with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:The National Student Academy (Lithuania).

It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:The National Student Academy (Lithuania)/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:The National Student Academy (Lithuania) saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Alvestrand 03:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)