User talk:Rtdixon86

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China and Africa
Hello, And... welcome. (you are a new user ?) Thanks for your help proposal on the article China in Africa ;) I wrote this article, that was not easy since I'm actually French, not a native English speaker. There is a merge proposal also, pleas ejoin the talk: Talk:Sino-African_relations, since you seems to have at some understanding of the subject. ;) Thanks for your help ! Yug (talk)  15:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello Rtd, I'm currently not really active on wikipedia. You seems used to wiki syntaxe, so feel free to lead this Sino-African issue. ;) Yug (talk)  10:55, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, I suddently got an idea ~
 * => Talk:Sino-African_relations
 * Please take a look ;) Yug (talk)  11:21, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello Rtdixon86, I see you have a deep interest in China in Africa and you have made significant contributions to the China in Africa wiki page. I want to invite you to our China in Africa discussion group that a group of us Tsinghua University and Cape Town University post-graduates have setup. Unfortunately I do not have your email address or I would send you an invitation directly. If you are interested you can join our group here at http://groups.google.com/group/ChinaAfrica. --Discott (talk) 17:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Animal Sacrifice - LDS (Strangite)
Just wanted to drop a note to say "thanks" for renaming the section header on the Animal sacrifice article, section "Latter Day Saints". There's been some argument over that section title in the past, with some saying that Strangites can't be called "Latter Day Saints" as (according to them) that title belongs exclusively to the LDS Church. I've argued back with them on that, as Strangites ARE Latter Day Saints, just not Utah mainline LDS's. Your choice of section name was a nice compromise (I'd never thought of putting it that way--wish I had!), and I just wanted to thank you for your contribution! - Ecjmartin (talk) 00:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thankyou, glad I could help!Rtdixon86 (talk) 01:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Challenging sources
Hi,

Just thought I'd mention a couple of things that you may find useful. You seemed unsure of this at Talk:Falklands War, so I thought an explanation might be helpful. If this is unnecessary, then my apologies: please ignore it!

As you probably know, WP:V says that any statement that is challenged, or likely to be challenged, has to be attributed to a reliable, published source. If something isn't sourced, and you want to challenge it, you can add fact, which will add a "citation needed" tag to the article. A bot will then come along and tag it with a date (or you can do that yourself) to show how long it's been without a source. Normal practice is to remove statements that have been fact-tagged after a few months. Alternatively, you can do what you did and request a source on talk. In either case, it's good practice to look for a source before tagging something as unsourced (as you did) - and there's no need to tag things if they're not controversial.

If the unsourced statement violates our policy on biographies of living people (on any article), then delete it outright. If it's something that's recently been added, then deleting it as unsourced is also generally considered fair. But it's a bit iffy deleting something without warning if it's been in a well-developed article for a long time.

The other thing I'd say is that some articles use footnotes as well as sources. Sometimes these are separated out - that looks a bit more professional - but often enough they're just mixed in with the references. So, the fact that something has a little [16] after it doesn't necessarily mean that it's sourced.

Hope that helps, Pfainuk talk 22:02, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Just a quick note, thanks for the info, but I'd just like to clarify any misunderstandings in that I wasn't trying to challenge the source and I didn't actually tag it, I was just trying to ask for help in fixing the citation, which MBelgrano kindly did. Thanks again. Rtdixon86 (talk) 22:18, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Non Free Images in your User Space
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Bon Jovi
His birth name is JON it is the italian spelling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonjovi332 (talk • contribs) 18:45, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Nick Brandt
Hi Rtdixon86, You need to let me know what part of the biography is advertising. I am willing to work with you, but please let me know what you mean. It was really differcult to upload the photos and write this article on Nick Brandt. It would be really sad if this is taken down. If you would like my email let me know. Thanks Thisandthem (talk) 02:07, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Thisandthem (talk) 01:57, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox WoD Vampire
Template:Infobox WoD Vampire has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince (talk) 10:16, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

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