User talk:Elliot Naess

Welcome!
Hello, Elliot Naess, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Ellin Beltz (talk) 15:56, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
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Kinetic Race page
Hi Elliot! I made a slight change to what you changed on the Kinetic Race page. Since those are former events, I moved them and the Australian race (now also Former), to their own sentence. For Wikipedia, just because something doesn't happen any more is no reason to remove the information entirely. If that were the case, most historical articles in the project would have to be deleted. So if something doesn't happen any more, just write a sentence that says "this happened formerly" and keep the citations (references) because that becomes history of the event and not just something to be wiped out. Hope this helps, please contact me anytime you need assistance with editing and hopefully you will edit on many pages on Wikipedia, not just one in which you are very involved! Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:17, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Regarding the time durations on the two events "Sacramento, California (1999-2003), and Clearlake (2003-2006), are there any published citations which give those start and end dates? Perhaps any newspaper interviews or something?  If not, add them anyway, but another editor may come along and tag them as facts needing citations which means that in some year (usually not fast) that editor will come back and remove the information if you haven't proven it by citation.  All the citation formats are on my User:Ellin Beltz page, just scroll down and you'll find a lot of the details of how to add citations and tags.  If you have any questions, just type below this message and I will see it, also please read the reply just below this one!  Cheers!  Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:52, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

How to begin to edit Wiki
I suggest reading the big pile of links in the welcome, or visit my user page where I've summarized what people need to get started editing the Wiki-markup language.

To talk here instead of by email, just Edit this page, go below the heading you want to talk in, and start typing. You will see sometimes people use : First reply the colon symbol to get a new indented paragraph, each one adds one more colon so they indent one below the other. If it's a lot of people talking the bottom one can look like this :::::: Sixth entry in discussion

To talk to me, just type on this page, I have clicked on "Watch this page" so when you make changes I will see it. The "Edit Summary" where you hit either Preview or Save can be used to send mini-messages like "Asks how to add_____" which can make it more obvious what help is needed. And when all else fails, type on your talk page and put a section there that says Why You Are Asking for Help.

There's an awesome group of very helpful chatty people at the Teahouse; it's fun to just read the messages and see that we're not alone in our confuzzlement at this wondrous project! Don't forget to sign four tildes ~ to sign your name!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)