User talk:I Write Stuff/Archive 1

Contact
Feel free to leave a message at the bottom of the below mess. Or email me as I now have it enabled. --I Write Stuff (talk) 00:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Help me!
helpme Is there an organized location where I can work on an article? Normally I just make a subpage or do it off line in Word, or Notepad, however it would be far more useful to have a place where I can keep track of notes on sources, list the sources and move them around as needed. --N4GMiraflores 16:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there, you can make a user subpage. Which will let you create it there. For example, you could create it at User:N4GMiraflores/Article. Once you are done, simply move it over to main space! -- The  Helpful   One  (Review) 16:23, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I was hoping for more of a professional work space, where I can keep track of multiple things like notes, references etc. Thank you however for your prompt reply. Perhaps there is a professional suite of software I can locate. --N4GMiraflores 19:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Another question
Is there a location on Wikipedia where I can ask general questions? I want to get an idea on what programs people may use to assist in writing articles. Knowing a general location where questions can be asked will stop me from posting "helpme" tags. --I Write Stuff (talk) 18:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * There's the help desk for one. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 18:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * (edit conflicted, twice) We don't mind you posting helpme tags :P. The Village pump is a good place, as is IRC, but in answer to your question, take a look at WP:SCRIPTS - there's some very useful stuff there.  Stwalkerster [  talk  ]  18:59, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello  & Wilkommen! Welkom! Bienvenue! Benvenuti! ようこそ! Välkommen! Witamy! Bem-vindo(a)! ¡Bienvenido! Добро пожаловать! 欢迎! Basically, welcome to Wikipedia!  Click here to respond to this message! Gtstricky Talk or C 18:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Heraclio Bernal
I saw your post at New contributors' help page. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Becoming an admin
Thank you for your comments on my talk page. I'm not going anywhere (unless ArbCom decide to indef block me, but that seems unlikely). To become an admin you need to either nominate yourself, or have someone else nominate you on Requests for adminship. There is then a discussion/vote (technically it's a discussion, but it becomes more and more like a vote with every year that passes). You need about 75-80% support from the community (anyone with an account can give their opinion) to become an admin. Things they'll be looking for is sufficient experience on the site so they know you can be trusted (you ought to have at least 1000 edits, probably 2000 these days) and also evidence that you understand the appropriate policies. Taking part in deletion debates, reverting vandalism, that kind of thing. Different people have different requirements, but that's the basic idea. You haven't been around long enough yet to get through RFA - give it at least a couple more months and another 1000 edits, or so. Good luck. --Tango (talk) 15:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Edit Count
I want to bring up the issue of edit counts to a forum where many people will see it. It has been recently prompted by a means of defense I have witnessed repeatedly on Wikipedia to win arguments. Basically stating a persons edit count in relation to a policy they are accused of breaking, or by comparing two editors via their edit counts. I want to ask why this argument is made, if its preferred that someone like myself who writes an article in one shot, instead writes it in multiple edits, etc. I am just not sure where to bring it up, Village Pump did not seem appropriate. It is kind of general discussion relating to something I have noticed repeatedly on Wikipedia. --I Write Stuff (talk) 19:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The village pump is probably the best place for such a discussion. I generally only see edit counts cited on RFAs. If someone has been using them anywhere else, something should probably be done about it. --Tango (talk) 19:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Timeline
Hi, well I'm still working on other Colombia related articles.. so haven't expanded that article about illegal drug trade in Colombia yet.

I usually create a timeline of events.. historians use it to organize dates and facts and then divide these into periods. Try to always use in-text citations while developing the article.. see:


 * WP:CITE
 * WP:MOS
 * WP:DEV

You probably read the book La Reina del Sur which might be a helpful source for that article. So gather the history first including Mexican legislation on prohibition and the events that led to these. The indigenous in the area probably planted marijuana. I deduce that it must be closely related to the prohibition in the United States, specially in California were there was a demand for drugs, so read more here

http://www.deamuseum.org/museum_idaafde.html. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/place.html http://www.unodc.org/mexico/index.html

Then how Mexico became a path for South American drug cartels and the introduction of cocaine, and heroine in the 1980s and 1990s and then you can connect it to the present situation Mexican Drug War.

The Organized Crime Unit of the PGR. "Organized crime" appeared as a concept in Mexico’s legal code in February 1994, referring to cases " . . . in which three or more persons are organized under rules of discipline and hierarchy in order to commit, in a violent and repeated way or with the purpose of profit, any of the crimes legally defined." At that time, in contrast to the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statutes, the fact of belonging to such a group was not defined as a crime. Over the period of debate on the implementing legislation, the law was broadened and strengthened, though substantially less than the executive branch wanted. Passed in November 1996, the Federal Law against Organized Crime (Ley Federal contra la Delincuencia Organizada, LFcDO) is aimed especially against drug trafficking, although other crimes, such as migrant smuggling, or trafficking in arms and infant children, terrorism and the like, are covered as well. The concept was broadened to include membership in a criminal group as a crime. Thus, " . . .when three or more persons agree to organize themselves or to be organized to carry out, in an ongoing or repeated way, actions which themselves or related to others, have as a goal or result, to commit one or more of the following crimes, they will be prosecuted for that very fact, as members of organized crime."

You can start the article with a history and legislation sections. Have fun...

-- Zer0~Gravity (Roger - Out) 07:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)