Newtknight

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Hello, Newtknight, 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:

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Neo-confederate

Congratulations on the publication of your book. Your contribution to this project would be most appreciated. Be aware, however, that experts sometimes find the going difficult here. It's best to treat your own book as you would any reference workIt's best if your expertise makes itself apparent by your knowledge of the material and of the available refences materials, rather than making assertions based on your personal experience. WP:COI also has a section on citing your own work. Again, best wishes and thanks for helping out.   Will Beback  talk  05:55, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 20:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

New edits

I got a message from 72.190.115.174, but I assume that's you so I'll reply here. To begin with, please sign your talk page postings, as per the message above. Second, adding ISBN numbers creates special links that allow readers to find the books in a library or from a bookseller, so please do include them. Third, the intro should remain neutral like the rest of the article. In general, a good approach to writing a lead is to first give the shortest possible definition of why something is notable, then give the sympathetic view, followed by the critical view. That's a little tricky here because the term is only used by critics, so they in fact are the proponents of the term, and the people who are labelled that way are probably the critics of the term. Before you do more editing I'd like you ask you to refresh your knowledge of the neutral point of view policy, WP:NPOV. Even experienced Wikipedia editors sometimes loose track of that core policy, and given your role as a partisan it is doubly important for you to edit in a neutral fashion.   Will Beback  talk  21:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding your question on copyrights and quoting, there are two separate issues. One is what is legal and the other is what is preferred for writing articles at Wikipedia. On the latter point, as an encyclopedia it's better to keep quotations short. Readers come to encyclopedia looking for summaries of informaiton, not for long extracts. The applicable eguideline is at [[Wikipedia:Quotations].   Will Beback  talk  01:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)