User talk:Jespley

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I found your contributions to Enceladus (moon) and Mars to be informative, and I hope you continue to contribute.

Again, welcome! Wmahan. 18:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

areography
hi Jespley, and welcome to Wikipedia! :)

you're concerned about 'a page already being taken'.. the way it works, is that for some articles, like Geography of Mars, are redirected to another page (in this case Areography, at the time of my writing this).. to access the Geography of Mars page, after being redirected, it will say "Redirected from Geography of Mars" at the very top of the article.. so if you click that link, then you'll get to the true page, which you'll be able to change.

of course there's no problem in being bold, which is what all newcomers are told to do; but if you're thinking of changing the name of a fairly large article, it's probably a good idea to have consensus first so you don't go messing up links, and find that afterwards you'll want to go change them all back anyway, which go be somewhat of a hassle.

in any case, welcome! :D Mlm42 18:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I will help!--Stone 08:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Censorship of Martian global warming
After many contributors have spent many hundreds of hours putting together the Martian global warming page, you decide to blow it all away. You delete the text, the images, the Mars information box, all of the links to relevant articles - everything. You replace this with a weak couple of sentences - leaving all new readers to vote to delete an obviously useless article. Whatever you may wish to call it - this is censorship, pure & simple. Rameses 00:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not trying to censor or vandalize. My revisions had two goals in mind - 1) Accurately state the science with appropriate references and 2) Present this information in a succinct, clear way. In my opinion, the many pictures and the infobox were distracting for a reader looking for a discussion of the topic (since that information is easily had at other locations (e.g. Mars) with wikipedia). I'm certainly open to the possibility that I erred in this judgment. I am sincerely appreciative of the time that people took to contribute to this article even if it ends up merged or deleted as I suggest.--Jespley 02:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

If we all showed our sincere appreciation of other people's time taken writing wikipedia articles by deleting them..... There would be no more Wikipedia. I am sad to say as a long time contributor that biased censorship is now killing Wikipedia's value and integrity. Rameses 03:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, I accept your point. But let us try to improve upon the work of many contributors rather than deleting it all and starting over. That is the model Wikipedia is based upon. I look forward to seeing more of your contributions - welcome to Wikipedia (belated). -- Rameses 15:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)