User talk:Brad C. Dean

Edit Summaries
Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Using detailed edit summaries is the best way to ensure that your good faith edits are not reverted by recent changes patrollers or other wikieditors. Thanks and happy editing! —  Spike Toronto  04:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Footnotes & Citations
Hi Brad! I notice with this edit that you added to the wikiarticle, Charles Pelot Summerall. Thank you for your contribution. It certainly adds to the article. It is also terrific that you provided a verifiable reference/citation, since so many editors fail to do so. However, when adding your reference be sure to follow the method outlined at WP:CITE. A great, getting-started guide can be found at WP:REFBEGIN. Finally, to see how I fixed the reference, take a look at these two edits. (Ignore the change of the template Unreferenced to Refimprove. This was an administrative step since the addition of your citation meant that the article no longer had zero citations.) Thanks for your efforts and happy editing! —  Spike Toronto  19:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Brad! Thanks for adding the missing page numbers to the Babcock quote at Charles Pelot Summerall. When you fix an issue that is flagged with a maintenance template, you can just go ahead and remove it after. In this case, it would have been alright for you to have removed the Page needed tag. If you look at this edit, you can see where I went ahead and did it as well as reformatted the page numbering. Thanks again! —  Spike Toronto  04:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Charles Pelot Summerall
Hi Brad. There is a debate on the talk page for General Summerall regarding the quotation from Colonel Babcock that you added back in March. I think that you might want to chime in since I am not too familiar with the material and merely reformatted your addition. Thanks! —  Spike Toronto  05:39, 21 April 2010 (UTC)