Sassy Sylvia

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FYI on section headings

I thought I'd let you know, on Wikipedia, section headings tend to not be capitalized after the first word unless they contain proper nouns. "Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest lower case. Thus "Rules and regulations", not "Rules and Regulations"." (see MOS:HEAD) --JonRidinger (talk) 12:31, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

FYI on tables

Table rows are separated by |-. If you remove these, as you did in this edit, you collapse the table to a single row. See Help:Table for help on editing tables. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 17:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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University president cleanup

Clean away, but please be careful NOT to remove information (e.g., dates and places of birth), or to remove Wikipedia formatting. Please be sure to use an edit summary to explain what all of your edits are doing, but be especially careful to do so when removing sourced content. Alansohn (talk) 02:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Why do you keep removing the red links from the page? There are 2 options for lists of notable alumni for a university: Option 1) Keep the red links per WP:REDLINK. That implies that the subject is notable enough to have an article, but the article is not written yet. It's our way to show what topics need to be written. By removing the redlinks, you are implying that your opinion is that they are not notable enough to be the subject of an article. Option 2) Remove the person from the list altogether. The person's notability needs to be explained for them to remain on the list. My opinion is that the short explanation for these people has explained their notability.

Please start explaining your actions and reasons for doing what you're doing in edit summaries at the bottom. Then we can see what you're thinking. Please respond back here on your talk page. Feel free to talk with me on my talk page. Any topic is fair game. That's how you learn. We've all been new at some time, and an experienced voice will smooth out this rough period before you truly understand how things work. Let me help you out! Royalbroil 11:37, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for responding to my comments on your userpage. Sounds good! Royalbroil 02:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Lester Lefton

Hello! Sorry my reply has taken so long, but I did want to get back to you on the potential COI on the Lester Lefton article. It is my understanding that the University using their own Communications and Marketing department to edit pages is indeed a COI. Kent State University Stark Campus was also guilty of this while Betsy Boze was there and those pages reflect that. Biographies should highlight a person's career and personal life, but it should read as an unbiased article, not a prepared bio that you would find on a resume or on the University's website. Because KSUUCM is preparing and editing this under the KSUUCM name (meaning it's likely being done on University time and on University computers), I have no reason to believe what's here will be any more "neutral" than what they have on the KSU website, which would not only violate COI, but WP:NOT as well since Wikipedia is not a mirror site. As for sources, feel free to tag or even better remove unsourced statements from this or any article. --JonRidinger (talk) 12:01, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Use of "Minor edit"

Be sure to read WP:ME about using the "minor edit" box at the bottom. A minor edit is something like correcting a spelling mistake and/or a grammar or punctuation error, removing or adding wikilinks, or doing something with the format like moving a picture. In other words, it doesn't change the content of the paragraph, section, or article. You have been using "minor edit" when you have removed entire sentences or even multiple words in several articles. Just because an edit may be small, doesn't mean it is a minor edit. --JonRidinger (talk) 18:30, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)