User talk:Reboot

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Welcome. Thanks for the kind words. -- Zoe

Reboot, the standard is ==External Links==, despite your preferences. -- Zoe

Hey, the wiki does have references, not all articles have references but some do. Usually when I write something up Ill put a reference to various things like so (1) or (i)

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[edit] Notes

  • i -- this is a note!

[edit] References

  • 1 -- The Great Big Book on References by J Lo (1932)


Right. The argument is that "references" cannot be stated that they must be labled "External Links". I do not like that Reboot

Hello. I agree that there should be more references for articles. A lot of the stuff in the Wikipedia is probably unverifiable, but it's hard to see which is, and which is not, unless references are given for everything. I often put in links like this[1] if I'm just using an online reference for a sentence or two, or put it in the list of external links if I've used it for a significant portion of an article. I don't really know what the preferred ways of doing things are, since most people don't seem to do anything at all. So a lot of the time I don't bother doing anything either, so I'm guilty of the same thing... Incidentally, the Manual of Style as it now stands seems to recommend "External links" rather than "External Links". (See under "Headline style".) -- Oliver P. 21:43 Mar 6, 2003 (UTC)

The manual of style should be amended such that "References" are for things used in the article and External Links would be just "here's some related stuff". "External Links" is not CLEAR that these are REFERENCES used in the article. I would use the [2] style were it not such a pain in the butt to type - Reboot

[edit] United States Page

I wasn't the one that changed it to that, that was 70.68.173.118. I've been reverting their changes, that's probably where the confusion originated. Sholtar 04:13, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your AMA Request

I'm sorry about all the annoying password requests you receive, but there's nothing we can do about it. It happens to lots of people, including admins. But, on the upside, the way it works is that each request resets the last one, so currently you only have two passwords that work; your real one and the newest requested one. There has been a bug report made about it that would set it to only allow one reminder per day. There's nothing else we can actually do though. Sorry. -Royalguard11(TalkยทDesk) 20:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Speedy deletion of Triangle Linux Users Group

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