User talk:CadillacDB23

Request for Mentorship
Hi, Tommy. I'm happy to accept your request. It's worth noting that I'm five hours ahead of you, so don't panic if you don't always get an instant reply. Having said that, I'm editing Wikipedia quite a lot most days, plus I'm a bit of a night owl and am usually still around at 1am my time (8pm Eastern) and sometimes later still.

One thing: when putting messages or comments on Talk pages (either User talk pages like mine or Article talk pages), you need to add your Wikipedia User name (signature) at the end of your post (rather than leaving it to SineBot to do that - see your message on my Talk page). The easy way to add your User name is to click the fifth symbol from the left at the top of the editing box - it's a picture of a pen writing something, just before the "Advanced" link. Sometimes it gets put in the wrong place rather than at the end - some sort of bug - but if so you can cut and paste it in at the end. Or you can type two dashes and four tildes ( --~ ) to produce the same result. Thus my signature will appear at the end of this. Best wishes, and I look forward to hearing from you. Andrew, alias --GuillaumeTell 22:52, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Great -- I'm looking forward to working with you. Thanks a bunch.

--CadillacDB23 (talk) 20:38, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Public policy of the United States
Hello, again. I had a look at your contributions to the above. Two things:
 * 1) In the Types of policies section, I'd recommend using bullet-points such as I'm using below here, to make the list more easy to read
 * 2) I'm afraid that neither of your two refs actually goes to where you wanted - click the blue links in the bullet-points below, which I've copied from the article, and see where you get to:
 * ref #1 goes to and
 * ref #2 goes to

See if you can get to the correct pages by trial and error. I recommend using the "Show preview" button down below the editing box. Get back to me if nothing seems to work and I'll show you what to do.

You can also pretend to edit my comments here to see how I've organised this post. I'm going to press the Show preview button now to see how it looks, and then clicking the blue-linked ref text ... and I made some changes and am now satisfied that this looks OK, so I'll totter off to bed. --GuillaumeTell 00:50, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Public policy of the United States
I went ahead and fixed the two sources you mentioned and reorganized the page using bullet points as you suggested. Please let me know what you think.

--CadillacDB23 (talk) 20:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry to be slow replying (I went to London to see Anna Nicole yesterday and just got back). I started this with a colon, which indents my comments. Up above, you could have done the same to avoid repeating the heading.  If you reply to this, use two colons for another indent and so on.  If the space to the left starts getting ludicrously large, then you can outdent by starting at the beginning of the next line with no colons.


 * Anyway, you've fixed ref #2 so that it looks a lot better in the article and gets to the right place, but using a Google search and getting an html result means that the text has a rather gaudy and (to my mind) rather offputting colour-scheme. Here's what I'd have done:  because you know the exact title of the article, put "A New Agricultural Policy for the United States" - the quotation marks are very important - into Google, and your #1 hit will be that very document in PDF format.  Click the link and there it is.  Now click the document's alarming-looking URL with all the 20s and %s up at the top of the page, do a CTRL-C to copy it, and then use it as the basis for the ref in the same way that you did for the gaudy Google one.  If you get that right, a little PDF symbol will appear in the ref.  Broadly speaking, PDFs are neater than html text and better for printing, etc.


 * Now for ref #1. The problem there is that all it does is just take you to the Almanac of Policy Issues home page.  What I'd suggest, now that you've done the bullets, is, for each bullet, to go beyond that home page and put a different ref at the end.  So, from the Almanac of Policy page, click Criminal Justice, capture the resulting URL as above and use that as a link at the end of the first bullet point.
 * Actually, given that Death Penalty, Drugs and Gun Control all have their own links on that page, you could click each of those and use all the resulting three pages as different refs on that same line, like so:
 * Criminal Justice -- death penalty,(insert ref here) drug policy,(ref here) and gun control(ref here)
 * That could look like overkill, of course, but it does enable interested users to get to the actual policies faster. See how it looks, and if you're not sure, get a second opinion from Prof Allen or classmates or other ambassadors or whoever.
 * Hope I haven't confused you! Best. --

Guillaume Tell  23:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed response -- I was on Spring Break. I'm working on adding the references as you suggested. I think doing so will make the article much stronger.

--CadillacDB23 (talk) 16:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

-- Howdy Cadallac, We are peer-reviewing and copy editing your wikipedia project in class. I didn't want to copy edit your quote that starts the Agriculture section, but I feel like you could find a quote that wasn't so poorly written. Maybe just re-write the quote in a way where the verbs agree? I don't know.

Also, I don't think "respective" means what you think it means.

In the energy section, I find the Random Capitalization of words off-putting.

Anyway, nice work. Much better than mine. -Cheers. -- pattessm Tell  3:50, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello Pattessm,

I'm glad to hear that you'll be editing my project. I'm currently working on fixing the references on the page, but I will address your suggestions during the next or two.

--CadillacDB23 (talk) 16:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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