User talk:Don Hammond

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Welcome!

Hello Don Hammond, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:47, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your help desk question

I've had a go at answering your question at the help desk, at Wikipedia:Help desk#Fixing dead external links. Thank you for asking the question and for trying to read up on the policy pages first. But don't be afraid to make edits, either, as mistakes can easily be put right. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:47, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the encouragement John. And for creating my talk page. This response is, in part, to test my comprehension of the help pages I just read. I'm curious if you will be automagically notified, or if this would need to go to your talk page. Still learning, with the intent to Be Bold -- Don Hammond (talk) 13:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, here I am! Because I left you a message here, I added the page to my watchlist, and that makes it easy for me to spot when this page gets edited. This is explained at Help:Watching pages. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:28, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the external links on Database normalization, Second normal form, and Third normal form. I see you left a note for yourself re: Database normalization. If it's decided to delete the external links from these other pages too (as you did with First normal form), I won't have any argument. The link I inserted is non-commercial, and suitably authoritative, but I see your point as well about not adding much. For the time being I'll leave that call to others, while watching the pages.

This is overkill since you are watching my talk page, but I added Whisperback and you're my first guinea pig. -- Don Hammond (talk) 03:43, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Then again, maybe not. I couldn't figure out whether the Whisperback notice would go at the top of your talk page (seems a bit brash), at the bottom (seems more likely, but then also seems to demand a new section, which is odd for a notice), or it doesn't matter because it will disappear anyway (either automatically or by you deleting it). I truly was prepared to be bold, but turned timid. I'm betting you'll find this and straighten me out. But I promise the handholding will not be needed permanently. -- Don Hammond (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Normally at the bottom, with or without a section heading. I usually leave the talkbacks in place to remind myself who I've been talking to; some editors delete them. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Changing a changelog

{{Help me}} I just made a small edit to Clayton_Cramer, adding the name of a published book that had been referred to as yet to be published. I also added it to the publications section (following the others as a template, so presumably did that correctly). In the edit summary I forgot to mention the addition to the publications section. I don't know if that's important enough to change it, but couldn't figure out how or even if it's supposed to be possible.

I would place the cite in-line - it's better that way - A list at the end is not that useful. I'll change it for you. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 19:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ron. I'll have a look at what you do and follow that in the future.