User talk:RosscoEdinburgh

June 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Alan Turing, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. If the number really should be changed, why not explain what you're doing? &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 19:45, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about that - my first update (I'm not even sure if I'm replying to you in the correct way). The source for my update was the same source in the OP so I didn't see the need to update it. Was that wrong? RosscoEdinburgh (talk) 09:55, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I spend quite a bit of time finding and reverting vandalism. When I saw you had changed the number of petition signatures from 21,000 to 36,000, with no explanation, I reverted it. I suspect--were our positions reversed--you would have done the same thing.


 * People, well-meaning and otherwise, change numbers in Wikipedia every day. Some of the changes are good; many are not. Where did you get the 36,000 number? The Alan Turing article refers to a source that says "petition signed by over 21,000 people" (I just looked at it). If you have a better source--that meets the requirements of WP:RS--you should make note of it as a reference in the article text.


 * I also recommend you explain your edits with an Edit Summary, which will let your fellow editors know what you were doing.


 * If you are introducing substantial change into the article, explain what you are doing on the article's Talk page. Doing so will reduce the chance of a misunderstanding.


 * I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions. &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 11:29, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your feedback - much appreciated. You are correct, I would have done the same thing were our positions reversed. It seems I need to read more about how to do this before I make any further updates. In this case the source I took the 34,000 figure from was the UK Government e-petition site where the petition referenced in this article resides. Here is the link http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526. Sorry about any problems I may have caused - this was my first attempt at editing. RosscoEdinburgh (talk) 15:44, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Wow! Great work! Thanks for updating the article! And, yes, your cited source--a UK government site--is pretty much unassailable. &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 22:50, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * ...and it looks like you've gotten things figured out but, if I can ever help with anything, feel free to holler. &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 22:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)