User talk:Patvac-chs

Informational gain from Wikipedia

 * [ [ whatever ] ] to link to other Wikipedia pages
 * [ [ desired Wikipedia page | word/phrase that will appear in article ] ]
 * { { convert | measurement | original unit | converted unit |sp=desired language spelling } } unit converter
 * use common name in article, not scientific
 * look for plagiarism first, and make sure that the site is not just using the Wikipedia information
 * categories and interwiki links are needed
 * genus, species, and binomial names need to be italicized and species names need to also be bold in taxoboxes
 * use { { harvnb } }, remove brackets from footnotes

Welcome
HOWDY DOO! I am so excited that you have joined Wikipedia! I hope you are too! This should be the best time of your whole life. Wikipedia is full of information and interesting articles that should help you expand your intelligence, which is extremely "cool," so the kids say now-a-days. I predict that in the near future, Wikipedia will take down Facebook and Twitter, just like Facebook did to MySpace. When this happens, you can be one of the "cool cats" that had a Wikipedia page first! GROOVY!

Have a fantastic time! :D

Data Base
I'm not sure what your intent was regarding the addition to the data base. Please review and adjust as necessary.--JimmyButler (talk) 22:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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On plagiarism
http://books.google.com/books/about/Poeciliidae.html?id=UccfSgAACAAJ says "Source: Wikipedia". Many new books and web sites copy from wikipedia (and they may do so if they mention the source). But you don't need to rephrase what was copied from wikipedia. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 04:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I must have read right over it. I have already had plagiarism problems with other information.
 * Patvac-chs (talk) 05:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Editing
I've not logged on in at least a year... and on the first day back, low and behold, I find a student still tweaking their article. Maybe should make it FA. I'll go back and edit your course grade! Nice! Cheers, --JimmyButler (talk) 16:56, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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