User talk:06hussong

Arnolds Park, Iowa
Hi, regarding your changes to Arnolds Park, Iowa: I'm going to revert some of your formatting changes so that this article is more consistent with other Wikipedia articles. We work hard to keep the appearance of articles simple and consistent, to make the encyclopedia easy to read for our users. You might want to look at Manual of Style. Thanks for your contributions, though - I'll try to retain the content you added. CDC  (talk)  18:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Arnolds Park, Wahpeton, Milford articles
Hello again. I'm sorry if I've caused trouble for your assignment - let me explain what I've done. I removed the colors and fonts you added because we try to only use only plain wiki markup, not HTML formatting. See How to edit a page for an overview of this, but the best way to learn this format is to look at another page as an example - click "edit this page" to see how it's formatted. I also changed the bulleted lists back to paragraph form; there's no firm requirement for that as far as I know, but there is a wide consensus on Wikipedia that full sentences in paragraphs are better than lists in most cases.

Regarding the information - in my changes, I worked in much of the content (not the formatting) that you added. For example, see the changes to the Wahpeton, Iowa article, after both your edits and mine. I did remove a few things; for example, we don't usually list individual restaurants in a town unless they're a major landmark, perhaps that people from all over the region would know about. If I've incorrectly removed such a landmark, I apologize, and feel free to put it back in. The amusement park is a great thing to have in the article - is there any more information about it you could add, such as when it was built or by whom?

I removed some of the external links that weren't directly related to the town - we try to list only the most relevant links on a given page, see External links. Again, if there are some that do belong, do reinsert them, perhaps with a description of them that shows why they're important.

If, for the purposes of the assignment, you want to see what the articles looked like before I made my changes, you can. From the article, click the "history" tab at the top of the page. This shows the past edits to the page, with the newest ones at the top. Click a date/time link, and you'll see an older version. So you'll see that no information or edits are ever "destroyed", they just aren't shown anymore.

I'm sorry to point you to more reading, but you might want to look over School and university projects for some discussion on using Wikipedia in assignments; some community experience with what works well and what doesn't work well is described there.

Again, I apologize if I've caused trouble - I didn't mean to. I hope you'll stick around and contribute in the future - let me know if I can answer questions. CDC  (talk)  19:25, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Picture 002.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Picture 002.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use GFDL to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 06:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)