User talk:ReverendSam

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Welcome!

Hello ReverendSam, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Hey there! Thought I'd give you a nice warm welcome to Wikipedia! If you need help, try contacting any of the administrators here at this place. Cheers! --216.191.200.1 14:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Advice

Hi ReverendSam. I just have some advice for you on a wikipedia feature that I thought you might find useful. This is in relation to your new String Metrics article. I hope you don't mind me being bold and putting this here. I thought it might improve the quality of your contributions.

If a page or topic can have multiple names, e.g. String metrics or Similarity Metrics then both names do not need an article. You can create a redirect page to forward from one to the other. Alternatively, if you are only mentioning the other name once and don't think it will be searched for you can type [[wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages|bold]] as I did above. on wikipedia, to limit the number of links on a page it is usual to only link the first occurrence of each word unless the article is long.

Another convention is that the first instance of the title in the actual article is written in bold. As you're creating lot of new articles at the moment I'd mention that. If you forget to do it don't worry, I'm sure someone will be along to fix things later. That's how I found out about various quirks like this as well.

I hope you find this useful. Mehmet Karatay 13:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Note that we already have a string metric article. Merging String Metrics into string metric would be appropriate I think. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Upper and lower case

Hi Sam. Just a note. Wikipedia style calls for lowercase in article names, so one should have information fusion instead of Information Fusion, then city block distance instead of City Block Distance, overlap coefficient instead of Overlap Coefficient, etc. It would be good if you look more carefully at the style of existing pages and try to use it in your contributions. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)