User talk:Jones3sg

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Welcome!

Hello, Jones3sg, 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: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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! TN X Man 20:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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Another welcome
Hello Stephen, and once again, a warm welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your message, and request for mentorship, which I'd be glad to help you with. I'm not sure what time you'd be editing (probably my mid-afternoon and evening) but I'm usually available on email pretty much most of the time, so feel free to contact me that way if you have anything urgent you need to discuss. As for kicking the whole process off, perhaps you could tell me what your intentions here on Wikipedia are, what you'd be most interested in getting involved in and what your previous experiences of Wikipedia (its contents, editing it, its users etc) have been. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 09:31, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Popping by to say hi
Hi Stephen, just thought I'd come round to say hi again and give you a quick assessment one of your recent edits. Let's take this one.
 * Nice chunky addition.
 * Try to avoid phrases like "other things like", that's not particularly encyclopedic.
 * Check out the collapsed tutorial below for how to use citation templates rather than use references the way you have (although it's brilliant that you've already got into the idea of references!)
 * Our manual of style recommends that you do not put a space between a period and a reference, at the moment you have "ecreation, exercise. [4]" while our style guide says it should be "ecreation, exercise.[4]" A simple thing, but all to try and make the formatting of Wikipedia consistent.
 * You used the edit summary well, good work, keep it up.

Good work so far, let me know if I can be of any help. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! How references work

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837, in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.
 * }

Consider using citation templates as well. (Another tutorial for that here:Referencing for beginners with citation templates)


 * Thank you so much for the help...I am still adjusting! I'll keep you posted on my work and what I'm adding! Jones3sg (talk) 04:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. Feel free to contact me whenever you need a hand with anything, I'll do my best to help.  Cheers, The Rambling Man (talk) 16:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Some more feedback
Hi Stephen, I see that you're getting nicely involved in the CRIPA article. A couple of pointers: Keep up the good work and feel free to ask me specific questions, should you have any! All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 17:27, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Don't forget to always sign your posts on talk pages with the four tildes.
 * 2) Always try to use an edit summary so other editors can see why you've done what you've done.
 * 3) Consider re-formatting the references so they look more elegant. Have a look at this diff to see what I did with one of them and see what you can do with the others.
 * 4) Look at WP:HEAD to see how to best format section headings.

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Hey, April/May update!
Hello Stephen, just thought I'd pop by to give you some feedback on your recent edits, namely these. Otherwise, all good. Let me know if you need any help with anything! The Rambling Man (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Are you sure that attorney general should be decapitalised? Our article is called United States Attorney General...
 * Headings - "Juvenile Correctional Facilities" should be more like "Juvenile correctional facilities", "Settlements and Litigation" -> "Settlements and litigation"... (i.e. no capitalised headings of non-proper nouns)

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