User talk:Wdb35

Hi Wdb35. If you didn't notice my reply at the help desk, I have moved the article from your userpage to the mainspace. It is at Uniformity and jurisdiction in U.S. federal court tax decisions. Note that per our style manual, only proper nouns and the first word in a title are capitalized. If you have any other problems, feel free to contact me on my talk page. Just as you got an orange bar alerting you that you had messages on your talk page, if you leave a message for me at mine (User talk:Fuhghettaboutit) I will be alerted to your message in the same way. I am posting a welcome template below with various useful links. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 03:43, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Wdb35! 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 username 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! Fuhghettaboutit 03:43, 4 December 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored 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 • Policy for non-free content • 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

Message to Fuhghettaboutit

Fuhghettaboutit: I'm not sure if this is how you communicate in Wikipedia, but if you read this, thanks many tons for posting my article and improving its format. I had no clue on how to post the article, or where to find editorial assistance and technical guidance.

I have several issues on which I need help. 1. I'm obviously doing something basically wrong with footnotes. I added several paragraphs and saved them. The paragraphs came out okay, but the nice formatting of citations in the reference sections is now all jumbled up again. How do I get the references to come back out in numeric order like your editing did. 2. I need to get into the first paragraph to do some edits and to complete the first citation [which will used the first two sources from the first footnote in the second paragraph, which I will then edit down to use op. cit. Unfortunately, I don't see an edit button for the first paragraph. How do I access it? 3. I saw a request that I sign my notes. Where do I do that, and how do I do that? WDB35

First, you are most welcome. In answer to your questions (not necessarily in the order you asked):

1. I suggest before you even read the rest of my post you take a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial;
2. You sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) after your posts. These automatically tell the software to format your signature as a link with a time stamp, when you save. Note that this is only done for talk pages and other non-article areas; one never signs anything in an article. For further information see WP:SIGN and WP:OWN;
3. You can edit an entire page by clicking "edit this page" from the buttons at the very top of a page. I assume you have only been using the section editing links on the righthand side of the article up to this point. For further information see Wikipedia:How to edit a page;
4. I found your post to me but only by chance, as you left you message in one of my talk page archives (I have reloacted it), so let me explain a little bit about talk pages verses other pages. Every user, when they choose a name upon account creation, gets two pages: 1) a userpage, which is located at the name they signed up under, appended by "User:"; thus, your userpage is at User:Wdb35 and mine is at User:Fuhghettaboutit; and 2) everyone also has a talk page—indeed, every article has a talk page—which are always at the name of the page, appended by "talk:". Thus your talk page (this page) is at User talk:Wdb35 and mine is at User talk:Fuhghettaboutit. The talk page of any particluar user or article can be accessed by clicking the "discussion" button, right next to the "edit this page" button. If I surround any of those pages with two brackets they become a link; thus, for example User:Wdb35 typed as [[User:Wdb35]] in edit mode, becomes User:Wdb35 when I save. Somehow, after you navigated to my talk page, you clicked on one of my archives and edited that, rather than editing the talk page itself, so I never got the "orange bar":-)For further information see Wikipedia:User page and Wikipedia:Talk page.
5. I am now going to the article and see if I can fix whatever's messing up the references. If you have more problems, do not hesitate to ask.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually both posts to you were done at the same time on two different days--those are my general editing hours--you just happened to respond to me at about that time. By the way, this time you posted to my userpage rather than my talk page. As I explained, my userpage. like every user, is at my name appended by "User:"; whereas my talk page is appended by "User talk:" so when you click on my signature at the end, that's links to my userpage; if you click on the talk part of my signature that links to my talk page—or you can navigate there there by typing in the search field on the left User talk:Fuhghettaboutit, or if you are at my userpage, you can click on the "discussion" button at the top. Not incidentally, posts always go at the bottom of the page. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)