User talk:Aureliano

Welcome!

Hello, Aureliano, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good work on Sydney, it would be good if you could edit the corresponding 'detailed' articles in similar fashion! Steve 01:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks mate...but what do you mean by "corresponding 'detailed' articles"? Aureliano 02:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On three of the Sydney sections there is a Main Article: link. They are History of Sydney, Culture of Sydney, and Transport in Sydney. They could do with the same rigour that you are applying to Sydney! Steve 03:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh righto, the quest continues then. Aureliano 04:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rottnest

References has a start, there is no need to put ^{[citation needed]} where you have, god there are so many mate, it'd be a separate article/list. I suggest a reverrt of that one! SatuSuro 07:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good edits to Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thanks.

If you're not already aware of this, academic boosterism is a perennial problem with Wikipedia. As is failure to cite sources.

Keep the article on your watchlist; if left to itself in a few months someone is likely to stroll through and add something about "MIT is generally considered to be the most prestigious scientfic research institution in the world." Dpbsmith (talk) 14:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, but you changed "modern computer" to "personal computer." I think that's wrong, and I've changed it to "electronic digital computer." MIT's big contribution to computer history was Project Whirlwind and the invention of magnetic core memory. It also was an incubator for the people that formed Digital Equipment Corporation. The personal computer is most closely with West Coast hobbyists in the mid-1970s and the West Coast in general. The people who developed the Xerox Alto referred to it as a "personal computer" so you can make a case for an origin at PARC. You can make a case for personal computing tracing its heritage to the LINC, and to the "hands-on" computing style of Project Whirlwind but it's not a terribly strong case... Dpbsmith (talk) 15:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. And sorry about that wrong edit!Aureliano

Adelaide

Instead of wholly changing the text it would be great for some discussion to be held first. I have replaced the changes you have made with an 'unreferenced' tag for the culture section. michael ^talk 03:52, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, nice to meet you. Referring to my edits, I don't understand what I've done wrong. If you could tell me specifically what part of my edits you object to, we could discuss the matter further. Aureliano

Beat Generation

I wanted to talk a little bit about your recent edits to the "Beat Generation" page, in particular this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beat_generation&diff=prev&oldid=56591369

But most of that should probably go in the talk page: Talk:Beat_generation

A more general point though: there's a syndrome I see in wikipedians -- and I suspect you may be an example of this, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong -- where "neutrality" is confused with objectivity. They want to see every article restricted to the hard-edged, provably factual, but that's actually a near impossibilty, especially with articles on "cultural" subjects. By that standard, for example, it would be difficult to say something like "Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language." -- Doom 20:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, nice to meet you. Let's continue our discussion on the article's talk page so others may join in. Cheers. Aureliano