User talk:Technogreek43

Hiii

Hii, im not back but i just happened to read your message, I like editing wikis, i just dont have much time for it anymore :( im not sure if your still here or not but if you are message me, maybe we could talk somewhere else instead of here? -- Yuki 23 November 2010 (UTC)

That would be lovely. I have missed you! Tech43 (talk) 07:46, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What'll I Do

Hello, I wonder why you have removed by information about the cover versions of What'll I Do from the list. You also wrote Sources?.

I am waiting for an answer. Thank you! Mbakkel2 Jan 27, 2012 09:25 (CET) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.108.230.137 (talk) 08:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FK Viktoria Žižkov

Hello. I don't know why you reverted my recent edit to the link to footballer Miloš Radosavljević at the FK Viktoria Žižkov page, but it generally helps to have direct links and not redirects, unless there is a good reason. I have therefore reverted your edit. Thank you. - Cloudz 679 09:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies. Tech43 (talk) 09:24, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on List of people claimed to be Jesus. Please comment on the content and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. Cloudz 679 09:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Did you have a specific issue with my summaries or do you just like being bossy? Skteosk (talk) 09:26, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry if you've found any of my comments offensive (although you still haven't made a specific complaint) but looking at your own history of edit summaries I can't see how you have any room to criticise. Skteosk (talk) 09:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You don't like me because I'm a Norwich City fan?! Are you five years old or something? And how do you know what I look like? I'm not trying to be you nor do I have any desire to be. My edit summaries reflect the inaccuracies of the information I edit, maybe a bit boisterously at times but still helpfully. Yours merely consist of childish insults. Skteosk (talk) 09:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I can't say I'm particularly keen on you either nor do I see anything joking in your remarks. You're obviously just someone who enjoys throwing your weight around and putting other people down, as the fact you're carrying out two virtual arguments at the same time demonstrates. Skteosk (talk) 09:53, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, olive branch accepted. Let's say no more about it. Skteosk (talk) 11:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Luis Suárez (Uruguayan footballer). Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Cloudz 679 09:26, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Technogreek43. You have new messages at Cloudz679's talk page.
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No personal attacks, only warning

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, as you did at User talk:LizzyBee23, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Manning (talk) 10:13, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at NASCAR, you may be blocked from editing. Cloudz 679 10:27, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at NASCAR, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Cloudz 679 11:01, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf^(talk) 11:13, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here's my request

I have been a user here for 6 years. I take full responsibility for my actions tonight. I accept the block. My only request is this: when I come back, I want you guys to review all my contributions dating back to 2006 and let me have a chance after serving a balcok of 6 months or 1 year. I think it's fair to have a longterm ban. I believe in you guys. Take care :). Tech43 (talk) 11:32, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I just did. And frankly, to get reinstated you'd need to REALLY change your behavior. You have a six year history of abusive edit summaries, frivolous editing and getting blocked for misconduct. Even though I'm one of the so-called "soft" admins that you rail against, I fully support Alexf's actions here. Let us know when you want back in, but expect to be under a strict eye from a number of admins. Manning (talk) 11:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-posting this in case you haven't seen it

Hi, Tech!

I dropped the following thoughts (below) over on the SoL talk, but thought you might not have seen them there, so I'm cross-posting to here.

Firstly, I do believe that you have some good to offer; I suspect that you're quite young, and we all do grow and change an awful lot during those (horrible!) years. So, all is not lost. If you'd really like to come back and do good, post a sensible, well-thought-out unblock request, decide which account you really want to use, and scramble the others (and also ask for those to be blocked, just to show willing, etc.) There are people here who can help you to become a really productive editor, you just need a few "buddies" (mentors) to help you through stuff and keep you in line, I think!

Cross-posted section

I've noticed the recent problems that you've had, and read your posts over at AN/I.

I think you may find, if you can rein stuff in a bit, that there are quite a few seasoned editors who could help you to learn the ropes here and fit in better. Feel free to come over to my talk page, and just read through, and "lurk in the undergrowth". Just FYI, I'm an HFA myself, and I know that there are quite a few others in the same range here in Wikipedia. We had an interesting chat about this on Jimbo's talk page recently. What it really means is that, for some of us (those of us with "issues", lol!) life can be a bit hard in here working out exactly what other people mean; we misunderstand, and we get misunderstood, a bit more than many others.

Having said all that, if you can find a group of editors who you can actually get on with really well, and who are good teachers, and understanding, and tolerant, and who you will really listen to, knowing that they mean well, then you may very well do OK here. It's quite possible that you may end up being the sort of editor who can help others find workarounds for which ever of their own problems they may have. Sometimes having something of a problem ourselves makes it easier for us to understand and teach others.

In the meantime, there are loads of little quiet tasks you can do here; simple things like fixing typos and so on, which will enable you to keep a low profile and still feel productive while the dust settles down around you. I hope that you, and the Wikipedia community, can find a way to bring out the best in you, and make you feel wanted and welcome here. Pesky (talk) 07:56, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Technogreek43/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!"

Tips on referencing

There are lots of ways to do this, some are simple, some more complex.

Personally, I like using citation templates, and fill in as much as I possibly can; maybe a bit more work, but I think it looks better. You have a <REF> at the start, then a suitable cite tag, then </REF>. An example usage is;

<ref>
{{Citation
 | last = Preston
 | first = Peter
 | title = D. H. Lawrence in the modern world
 | last2 = Hoare
 | first2 = Peter
 | publication-date = 1989
 | place = [[Cambridge]], [England]
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J5nRoaOwkPMC&printsec=frontcover#PPA125,M1
 | accessdate = 2008-05-11
}}
</ref>

For all the possible things to include, see Template:Citation

Of course, you don't have to put everything in, just whatever you can. The above example is a book, but I've included a 'convenience link' to a website that displays it.

Then, at the end of the document (but before any 'category' tags), you need a references section. You just put,

== References ==

{{reflist}}

Hard work? - help is at hand. There are lots of tools that create cite tags automagically. Personally, I use Zotero for the web links, and the cite book generator for books.

I also recommend you look at other articles and copy from them - especially featured articles, which should have good refs. [end of Chzz's refs section]

Hope this helps, cheers, Pesky (talk) 10:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!

You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or Special:MyPage/vector.js, or Special:MyPage/monobook.js, and then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page!) It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can't do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), but, if not, just open the page yourself and choose something appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talk) 08:27, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]