User talk:Tobit2

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Good luck, and have fun. --Legosock (talk) 00:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Legosock (talk) 00:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Changes to Adoption

See my response on the talk page or this diff. Thanks. Ha! (talk) 18:01, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk pages

Hi. RE your response [1] on Talk:Adoption. If you want to respond on a talk page

  1. add a new section to the bottom of the page, not the top
  2. use a ":" at the start of a line to indent the text. Use "::" to indent twice, ":::" to indent three times etc. If you want to indent three times and produce a bullet, use ":::*" (means indent three times and make a bullet). If you want the bullet to be numbered use ":::#" (indent three times and make a numbered bullet). It's common to put your text underneath another's and indent it one more time than them to respond, rather than to respond inline (break up their text).
  3. End your text with four tilde marks ~~~~ to insert your signature

So for example to produce this

Example heading

This is the point I'm trying to make. Bob

This is my response to your point. Bill
This is my response to your response. Bob

You would type this

== Some heading Bob made ==
This is the point I'm trying to make. ~~~~
:This is my response to your point. ~~~~
::This is my response to your response. ~~~~

If you each have a few points and wanted to produce this instead

Example heading

  1. This is the 1st point I'm trying to make
  2. This is the 2nd point I'm trying to make. Bob
  1. This is my response to your 1st point
  2. This is my response to your 2nd point. Bill
  1. This is my response to your 1st response
  2. This is my response to your 2nd response. Bob

==Some heading Bob made==
#This is the 1st point I'm trying to make
#This is the 2nd point I'm trying to make. ~~~~
:#This is my response to your 1st point
:#This is my response to your 2nd point. ~~~~
::#This is my response to your 1st response
::#This is my response to your 2nd response. ~~~~

So basically do what you were trying to do but use ":" instead of spaces to indent, put everything at the bottom of the talk page and put four tilde marks at the end of your text. Tutorial (Talk pages) has more help. Ha! (talk) 00:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External links on talk pages

Hi. It's sometimes more convenient on talk pages to incorporate a link into the text rather than insert it on it's own, especially if it's a very long link. Compare this link http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Lorem+Ipsum+is+simply+dummy+text+of+the+printing+and+typesetting+industry.+Lorem+Ipsum+has+been+the+industry's+standard+dummy+text+ever+since+the+1500s%2C+when+an+unknown+printer+took+a+galley+of+type+and+scrambled+it+to+make+a+type+specimen+book.+It+has+survived+not+only+five+centuries%2C+but+also+the+leap+into+electronic+typesetting%2C+remaining+essentially+unchanged.+It+was+popularised+in+the+1960s+with+the+release+of+Letraset+sheets+containing+Lorem+Ipsum+passages%2C+and+more+recently+with+desktop+publishing+software+like+Aldus+PageMaker+including+versions+of+Lorem+Ipsum with this link. They both go to the same place but the first example causes problems with the structure of the page (it's too long basically), making it less readable. There's a table at Links and URLs that describes the ways you can link on Wikipedia. The 17th row of that table (the cell starting with "Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources") describes ways to link to external (non-wiki) pages. Ha! (talk) 07:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference you added to the Adoption article

Hi. The date on the ref you added [2] looks wrong (it's 2995, is it meant to be 2005?). Do you have a link to an online copy of the journal. I'd like to include the URL and article title so it can be found easily in the future. Including quotes of the relevant text is useful as well. Template:Cite_journal has details of how to include them, Wikipedia:Citation_templates is useful as well. Ha! (talk) 00:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for adjusting the reference. Unfortunately I can't access JSTOR. Can you let me know specifically which bit of text in the article you're supporting with the reference and quote the relevant part of the reference in it's citation (if it's practical). Thanks. Ha! (talk) 16:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)