User talk:AmazingRandi

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Just a heads up that under WP:REALNAME, you shouldn't make an account "under the name of a well-known living person unless it is your real name, and you either are that well-known person or you make it clear that you are not". Although AmazingRandi is a stage name, it's still a little close for someone editing the James Randi article.

If you're just a fan and intend to continue your good work on the James Randi article, I'd recommend changing your username - no big effort, just abandon this account and start a new one. (It'll also stop crackpots from seeing "AmazingRandi" in the article's edit history, assuming it's James, and ranting on your talk page.)

If you actually are James Randi, then by all means put a message to that effect on User:AmazingRandi, and the Wikipedia administration staff will bear it in mind. (You should be careful about editing your own biography, though, as explained in WP:AUTOBIO.)

Let me know if you have any questions, and welcome to Wikipedia! --McGeddon (talk) 09:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

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Re this edit, when correctly done, references are "inline", that is, the text shown for a particular item in a reflist is entered between special ref tags at the point where the reference applies. In Harry Houdini (which I fixed), the text "Houdini A Pictorial Life by Milbourne Christopher, 1976, p. 54." is displayed in the reflist. The caret (^) on the left of that text is a link. Clicking the link takes you to the point in the article where the reference applies. You then have to edit that section, and fix the text there. That is now done. The correct way to draw attention to an error if you can't fix it yourself is to add a section to the "talk" page for the article. You click the "discussion" tab at the top of Harry Houdini, have a bit of a read of the talk (aka discussion) page to see if your point is covered, then click "new section" at the top. Put something like "Error in reference" in the "Subject/headline", and spell out what the problem is in the box. Add your signature by typing a space then four tildes on the last line. Johnuniq (talk) 11:45, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome! To answer your question: "And, pray tell, what "page" -- if any -- am I now "creating"?" - the answer is you created your "user page", a page that can have information about you (the Wikipedia editor). This page is your "discussion page" or "talk page" and messages to you should go in it. Bubba73 (talk), 05:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)