User talk:Blondeonblonde

July 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Manitoba. Please be more careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Seems like an accident. :) Moonriddengirl 00:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding edits made 19:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Manitoba, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Manitoba was changed by Blondeonblonde (c) (t) deleting 17368 characters on. Thank you. ClueBot 19:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to discuss an issue, the talk pages (like this one) are the appropriate places to do it. I'm deleting Blondeonblonde, which isn't appropriate as an encyclopedia article. -FisherQueen (Talk) 19:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding warnings

Blondeonblonde has contacted me about these warnings and I would just like to say that these are due to his old browser. I am helping show him workarounds so please disregard these mistakes and please assume good faith when looking at these warnings in the future. Thanks! Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References & Citations

I was posting Bearcat's talk page and noticed you asked about how to do citations. Here are a couple of good places to look and so way of citing references:

- <ref>[http:www Title of WWW URL as given at top of browser] URL accessed today's date</ref>.

A formal way which is needed for feature status is on...Wikipedia:Citation templates wherein you would then type instead...

- <Ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Title of WWW URL as given at top of browser REQUIRED | work = | publisher = | date = | url =http:www REQUIRED | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}</ref>

and fill in the appropriate fields {any not filled in won't show up}..the only two fields which are required are URL and title. Then this way of citing sources will give a little superscript number in the text...and if you have a section named....References or notes, the only thing that needs to be in that section is this code...<div class="references-small"><references/></div> and the formal bibliographic style of citation will magically auto number and appear nicely referenced down below for you.

User:Jeepday/Cite has forumlas for citing references.

I hope this helps. Mr. C.C. 06:45, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Patterson and other stuff

Yes, an article should always have as many sources as possible. The main challenge at this point is that so many articles were contributed over the years while Wikipedia policies and practices were still in development, and thus didn't get as fully sourced and referenced at the time as they should have been, so there's a lot of cleanup to do on a lot of articles. The citation format that Mr. C.C. posted for you above is ideal, but having external links present at the bottom of the article, even if individual statements aren't footnoted, is still better than nothing at all. At one time that was the closest thing Wikipedia actually had to a referencing standard (or at least the closest thing we had to a properly communicated one, which admittedly isn't quite the same thing) — it's just that not all articles have been fully upgraded to the more thorough standard that we apply now. Bearcat 17:34, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography

Hi, I see that you are mainly editing articles on people. You might be interested in joining the Wikiproject on Biography. There you can communicate with others sharing your interest. You join by adding your username here. Ciao --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 06:54, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia 15

Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday on January 15, 2016. I have thought for a while that it would be neat to meet some local wikipedians. According to the wikipedians in Winnipeg or Wikipedians in Manitoba category you are one of us. I am contacting people in this category to say: Let's celebrate this milestone. If you know other wikipedians, please ask them to join in as well.

I am posting this to your talk page as a transclude so that any updates will show up automatically.

Hope to see you there! Tenbergen (talk) 04:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One other Winnipeg Wikipedian showed up, in addition to a number of regular skullspace members. It was nice to actually talk to someone else who has worked with Mediawiki and actually "gets" transclusion. Cake was eaten! Tenbergen (talk) 06:37, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, apparently I haven't logged in to Wikipedia in over 6 years and I totally missed this message and the event! I guessed I missed any 20 year celebration, too. Let me know if you end up doing a 25 year one. :) Clayton Rumley (talk) 22:52, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Need help with changing password

I want to change my password. I am not receiving an email response after I hit “forgot password. “ I think this is because I created my account, years ago, with an email address that no longer exists. I see no other option to allow a change. If anyone knows what I need to do, please advise. Thank you. Blondeonblonde (talk) 15:02, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]