User talk:TheMagicOfDC

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello TheMagicOfDC! 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 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! GoodnightmushTalk 17:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images 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 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 • 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

[edit] Reply regarding David Copperfield

Hi Tony, I'm gonna address your questions in order for lack of another way. I do not work of Wikipedia in any paid fashion, no. I am just another volunteer editor. I have David Copperfield (illusionist) on my watchlist as a result of my previous interactions with Chris Kenner, actually. He had some similar questions which I answered by email mostly, and ever since David Copperfield (illusionist) has just been another page I keep an eye on. If you're in communication with Mr. Kenner, he may remember me from our previous correspondences. I would peruse the many links in that welcome box above, but for this specific case, there are a few that are more important than others. Definitely review Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, because you are closely affiliated with the subject of the article. Also, even though you are not Mr. Copperfield himself, you may want to look at the headers regarding "If Wikipedia has an article about you" on Wikipedia:Autobiography. Regarding some of your other specific questions: as you will see at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, almost all information in a biography of a living person on Wikipedia must be well referenced in independent sources. As for the section regarding a "Claudia Schiffer", I simply put it back because I didn't see any reason for it to be omitted. However, it may have been a fleeting incident that does not deserve note. I would discuss removing it on the talk page of the article first probably, and see if anyone else has any objections to removing it. If you have further questions, by all means leave another note on my talk page or email me. However, I may be slower in responding than usual for the next 24 to 48 hours. Goodnightmush^Talk 04:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. On a final note, if you place ~~~~ after a comment on a talk page (but never an article) it will add the time, date, and your Wikipedia username. (Mine is the black and grey one above, which is slightly spruced up.)

[edit] David Copperfield

First, sign your posts. Second, please don't lecture me about semicolon usage:

• "When to use a semi-colon ... 1. To separate long items in a list" [1]
• "Long items in a list, particularly those introduced by numbers, are also separated by semicolons" [2]
• "However, series with long items are separated by semicolons" workshop%20fall%202006%20other%20Punctuation%20final.ppt

Those are just the first three references I found in a five-second Internet search. Multiple printed manuals of style recommend that that long items in a list, for clarity, should be separated by semicolons regardless of whether there are commas within the list items. That said, I don't care enough about this issue to revert your reversion of my edit. The current Wikipedia article on semicolons is sadly lacking, and missing reliable references from well-known manuals of style (Chicago, MLA, etc.). Usage will vary slightly depending on the precise style guide used. —Lowellian (reply) 02:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction on User:TheMagicOfDC page

Hello Tony, I noticed your "managing" and useful edits to the David Copperfield (illusionist) page and was curious.

I managed to track down your original introduction from User_talk:Goodnightmush/Archive_3#63307616444 and so I've copied this to your User:TheMagicOfDC page for other people who are curious. I hope that's okay, and please do feel free to update/improve it. It helps to show that there is some "official" background to both your username and the edits your have made.

(It also of course, helps other editors to be aware that the edits do need double-checking for bias ;-) )!

Hope that helps, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, —Sladen (talk) 22:12, 13 February 2008 (UTC)