Jonnyhottrod

Hello, Jonnyhottrod! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —EncMstr (talk) 20:57, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Alan Alda

I see you have a template at the beginning of your talk page that leads to a lot of important information that you need to know about how things work on Wikipedia. First of all, calling him "Alda" isn't just a style choice. Policy is to either refer to a biography subject by the whole name or the surname only. We never refer to someone in a familiar way, such as "Alan". You may have moved the sentence you mention to a different part of the article and that would have been fine. Other changes included rewording some sentences so that they started with a time reference, wording which should be varied. You just removed a paragraph about where he lives, which included referencing. It's one thing to change how something is said, but it's another to just chuck something because you don't like where it fits. A good rule of thumb is to broach changes on the talk page and see if there is objection first. Wildhartlivie (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Nicole Brown Simpson

Thanks for thinking of me for such a question. That was a perplexing error. It reminds me of the bad old days in computing where the computer simply said "error" leaving it up to the programmer to figure out what it meant. It looks like you added the first references in Nicole Brown Simpson (tsk tsk to previous editors); when I added {{reflist}}, it cleared up. See WP:CITE for all the details about citations. Good question! Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 06:27, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. That's a good one! —EncMstr (talk) 06:57, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

re:business letter

Recent as in time as in the last week. Anything before last week doesn't count. -Royalguard11(T) 05:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)