Ningyo Majo

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Hi,

You may be interested in the use of sub pages as a personal sandbox rather than using your user page. WLU (talk) 16:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Incidentally, I moved the contents of your user page to a sub-page, here, and put in a link. I think there may be a policy - you're not really supposed to have your user page look like a mainspace page. Plus, it's easier to work with and doesn't clutter up. WLU (talk) 16:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you I do appreciate the sub-page, but I didn't mean to keep the Capsicum page on my user page, I thought I had deleted it when I stopped for food earlier. Now I don't know how to delete the Capsicum in the heading from the sub-page.Ningyo Majo (talk) 16:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Like how to delete User:Ningyo Majo/Capsicum? Need an admin for that, the other thing you could do is just leave it and use it as a sandbox (they're very handy), though you may want to move it to a different name. Personal preference, there's no real pressing need to go either way. Otherwise, you could get it speedy-deleted by an admin under G2, G6 or G7. Or use the {{helpme}} template - create a new section using the plus tab at the top of this page, add that tag, then write underneath it that you want User:Ningyo Majo/Capsicum deleted. WLU (talk) 16:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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My concerns were specifically about:

16:08, 24 June 2009

16:22, 24 June 2009

19:49, 24 June 2009

--Ronz (talk) 01:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Regarding your reverting of my edits

Links

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. [1] --Ronz (talk) 22:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TALK#How_to_use_article_talk_pages Discuss edits: The talk page is particularly useful to talk about edits. If one of your edits has been reverted, and you change it back again, it is good practice to leave an explanation on the talk page and a note in the edit summary that you have done so. The talk page is also the place to ask about another editor's changes. If someone queries one of your edits, make sure you reply with a full, helpful rationale.

Ronz,

Thank you for reminding me why I have not tried to edit any Wikipedia pages for well over a year.

I just spent more than three hours reading and searching through my Bookmarks for the correct links and checking that they are functioning; I carefully edited them into the article on Capsicum; and then, when I came back to add one more - I found that you have reverted them all.

I did not add any links that I am affiliated with in any way, nor any of the other things you have listed as inappropriate. My only motive was to impart information.

I have read the talk page for the article on Capsicum and the edits I made to links were in direct response to queries made there.

On the talk page for the article on Capsicum I did not read any comment or explanation by you as to why you reverted my edits.

Thank you again for the warm welcome to a novice.

(Ningyo Majo (talk) 00:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC))

I'm sorry to see that you've chosen to duplicate your harassing, sarcastic comments here. If you are interested in a civil discussion, please remove your comments above first. Thanks! --Ronz (talk) 01:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Ronz,

I did not place my comments here in my Talk Page to duplicate, or harass, nor did I make any sarcastic comments anywhere, not at all, ever. I do not do sarcasm.

I placed my comments here because when I saw my post had disappeared from your Talk Page I thought that I must have put it in the wrong place - and done the wrong thing again.

Have been sitting here feeling I have wasted my time and my efforts in trying to add more information to be of use to others - now I feel sad too.

My thanking you was just that - a thank you - You have very quickly reminded me why I only tried a few edits when I first registered before I gave up.

(Ningyo Majo (talk) 01:49, 25 June 2009 (UTC))

Ronz,

   16:08, 24 June 2009

I can see how I have kind of doubled up on this one

   16:22, 24 June 2009

I do not understand why it is unacceptable to link to the BBC Worldwide Good Food site - it is the new international version of the Good Food Channel. Why is the link http://thetvroom.com/uktv/ to the old television guides acceptable? "The TV Room is supported by Promax UK - specialists in design, promotion and marketing."

   19:49, 24 June 2009

I can see that you may think that the nutritional information on the The World's Healthiest Foods site may be tainted - and I had found a better, more independent link I was coming back to post.

I can see how I have kind of doubled up on the links to these ones too - but the actual information pages are good. So why not acceptable?

Plant Profile: Capsicum spp. Descriptions, Cultivation and Usage. Photographs of varieties from Floridata, Florida, U.S.A.

Capsicums: Innovative Uses of an Ancient Crop History, Botany, Breeding, and Pungency. The Center for New Crops & Plant Products, at Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.

Capsicum and Chillies: Commercial Cultivation DPI&F Queensland, Australia.

Capsicum annuum Fact Page. Plants For A Future: Database

(Ningyo Majo (talk) 02:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC))

Imo, this is a bit of overkill and WP:Bite on Ronz's part to revert all your external links because he thinks this makes too many external links. However, I do think that perhaps it might not be a bad idea to go over the external link list, make sure there isn't duplication, delete links that are superfluous, and leave the best external links. Evidently, you are interested in Capsicums? Why not look over the article and see if you can add something of interest from one of these external links into the main article? Or improve it, if you are familiar with the subject?

Also, on the Floridatabase, you don't need to include a link to the main website, too. That is superfluous - all you need is the link to the article on capsicum - if a person wants to see the rest of the site, it is up to them (and very easy) to just go to the home page of the site from the capsicum article. --stmrlbs|talk 04:50, 25 June 2009 (UTC)