User talk:1.21 jigwatts

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George W. Bush
Why do you hate America?!!!11 Just kidding. Keep up the good work. - Crockspot 00:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing concerns

 * 1) Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from . Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox.   -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 17:58, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be  vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Sandbox for test edits.  -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 17:58, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

No, I was just trying to remove all the image descriptions that are useless now because the pictures aren't there anymore. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.21 jigwatts (talk • contribs)
 * Understood. You might want to begin using the edit summary to make clear why you are doing what you are doing. -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 18:03, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Take a look at this..., you deleted a "missing" picture that was, in fact, only "missing" due to an IP editor's error in the diff directly before yours. Please check the edit history prior to deleting such items. Thanks, -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 18:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, it just looked like the picture wasn't there anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.21 jigwatts (talk • contribs)
 * That's why I asked you to check the edit history prior to deleting. Also, please sign your posts on talk pages, such as the post directly above this. Happy editing,  K u k i ni  hablame aqui 18:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Manual of Style on ordinal numbers
Hello – You have been editing articles to superscript the suffixes of ordinal numbers with digits. The Manual of Style has a section on this issue. Suffixes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so forth should not be superscripted.

I have reverted your changes. In the future, please check the Manual of Style before making changes such as these. Thanks. - Krakatoa  Katie  00:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. But why does President Bush have his that way then? 1.21 jigwatts 00:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Conformity and improvement in WP
Please consider the possibility that nothing improves if there is not some space for thoughful and constructive attempts at improvement. WP is a dynamic, evolving environment and the Infobox template itself is fairly new to these articles and also is rapidly evolving. The fact that someone took very little time to make the 50 U.S. Senator's boxes exactly the same does not mean that design is right or written in stone. I could just as easily tomorrow change them all to my way of thinking, but I chose not to work that way. I prefer to post what is clearly a thoughtful alternative, and let it be considered. Instead of enforcing an abitrary conformity, I would appreciate it if you (and others) would give real consideration to the reasons for my suggestion for these and other small modifications, just as I give consideration to hundreds of modifications made by others.

Item 1. WP articles are intended to be biographical for the entire person's life, not just the present. Many Senators, including Mr. Biden, have been both Sr. and Jr. senators. Therefore, to be accurate both should be stated in the infobox, which would be silly. Accordingly the best place to convey that information is elsewhere, like the introductory paragraph. Putting it in the infobox was a very recent development, and in my opinion an unfortunate choice, a well-intentioned mistake.

Item 2. Similarly the use of "served alongside" is inappropriate in the infobox. Once again most senators have served alongside several people, not just the current one. If used, they should all be included, along the reps they served with. Some editors have actually included all that information, making the template chaotic. And if this information is included for senators, why not reps, and ambassadors, etc., etc. Once again the information belongs elsewhere, and someone made a well-intentioned, but unfortunate choice to put it in the infobox very recently. The choice needs to be reversed. I'm simply trying to point that out gently and graphically.

Building consensus, which is the policy of WP, is not easy, and can be done several ways. One is through discussions and another is through example. I use both, but discussion is often difficult without the example. I would appreciate it if you would recognize that I am not a vandalizer, but an editor who has spent a great deal of thought and time trying to improve these articles. I'm sure that is your intent as well. My hope is that you might consider that the quality you seek sometimes requires some constructive diversity and is actually frustrated by a rigid adherence to absolute conformity. Happy editing. stilltim 01:47, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

If you want to add new stuff, you can do it in the article, but please keep the infobox the same.1.21 jigwatts 02:00, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Barrasso
Senator Barrasso is pro choice... that's why the Democratic governor picked him put of the 3 Republican nominees for Thomas's seat. I cited it too.--Dr who1975 19:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Obama
Thanks for correcting "Taking office." Some else instead had it "Assumed office." and that is what I removed. I was unaware there was a "Taking office" field. Thanks for re-inserting it. inigmatus (talk) 16:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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