User talk:Extensiontf

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DigitalC (talk) 05:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your additions to the ES aren't helping

You seem new and bent on editing the Extension School page for your pleasure and it's getting out of hand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Firstinline2009 (talk • contribs) 20:53, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3RR

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Harvard Extension School. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. --Ave Caesar (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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WP:COI

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Harvard Extension School, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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What I added was not POV

Yale Eli Whitney and Columbia GS do give more weight to achievement. They are both non-traditional programs like the extension school. I even said that in contrast to the former programs SATs are not required. It's not POV and you are seriously just spamming and editing as you like for the heck of it. Firstinline2009 (talk) 21:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the Harvard Extension School page. Not the non traditional student's college comparision page.--Extensiontf (talk) 21:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that you're quite getting it, I never compared the ES to the College. That part was edited out. What I wrote was that like the Yale and Columbia non-traditional programs, more weight is given to adult achievements because of the age of applicants. How can you argue against this? This isn't POV. It's fact. There is no mention of the College whatsoever. Quit spamming the article and talk page with your gibberish. Firstinline2009 (talk) 21:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Firstinline2009. Sounds good. Keep putting your point of view up; it's not fair to tall the extension school students out there that you've taken it upon yourself to represent them on a wiki page.--Extensiontf (talk) 21:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're nuts dude. All I was trying to point out was that like the other non-traditional programs, more weight is given to adult achievement. I was not comparing them by stating that one was better than the other or whatnot.Firstinline2009 (talk) 22:24, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for calling me nuts. that's a personal attack. it's not the page for non traditional schools. it's the harvard extensino school page. POV.

Signing

Please remember to sign your post using three tildes (~) when making remarks on talk pages. JRP (talk)

Thanks, JRP. I always try to do that now. I'm pretty new to Wikipedia. --Extensiontf (talk) 03:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When I push the signature button, I get four tildes and two dashes. Is that the same as three tildes.--Extensiontf (talk) 03:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, too. Three give you "JRP (talk)" while four gives "JRP (talk) 03:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)". Just a matter of taste. JRP (talk)[reply]

thanks, jrp. that's cool. i really like computers. there are so funny. i'm thinking of taking an intro to c++/linux/unix in the extension school this fall or intro to java I and II. though, i've heard it can be tough. --Extensiontf (talk) 03:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Response to above

If you've taken any programming before, it's not that tough. Sort of a point where if if you can do one or two programming languages, you can pick up others fairly quickly (even if you need a book sometimes to remember exact syntax.) But, your first excursion into programming can be very difficult. You have to be methodical and twist your brain around algorithms and data-structures, object-oriented and functional programming. But, it's a blast once you can do it. Certainly helps with my technical-but-not-programming job.

In any rate, and meaning no disrespect to you, you are going to have a lot of difficult getting any traction on editing the HES article. Not because it doesn't need improved-- it does, very much. But because, by wikipedia standards, you are exactly the wrong person to do those improvements. Your account is an example of Wikipedia:Single-purpose account-- that is, you've edited almost exclusively HES-related articles. Even your username suggests that you would have problems with WP:NPOV. I'm not saying that you would edit in an unbiased way, but I believe that you can see how perception is the problem and one way that Wikipedia defeats biases in articles is by favoring editors without connection to the article. Even if you didn't realize it, you'd probably be less inclined to write something negative. This is why I don't do large edits to HES or the other articles that I'm affiliated with, such as my employer's. But I can still get away with it more than you because I've been on wikipedia for years and have a few featured articles under my belt for credibility. I'm actually also a HES TF. (Why the hell is it sometimes TF and sometimes TA at Harvard, that I will never understand.) I'm not sure if I mentioned that before, but at least you know where I stand.

I recommend, if you enjoy Wikipedia, going around and doing some other work on some other articles. Find a topic that you enjoy and push an article in it to WP:GA standards or, if you are a glutton for punishment, try for WP:FA. If you get experience working on other articles, I think you'll be able to more effectively edit the HES one because you'll have experience enforcing neutrality in your prose. You may also want to consider changing your name, but that's up to you. And, if you are doing other Wikipedia work, you're less likely to be seen as a single-use-account pushing a viewpoint.

Just friendly advice. I don't mean any disrespect, nor am I criticizing your work on the HES article in any way. But Wikipedia favors the impartial and you would have a hard time demonstrating that. JRP (talk) 11:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Signing your name

You need to ALWAYS sign your name when you write on talk pages. I'm not going to explain how because you manage to do it sometimes but not others. It is very obvious that you sometimes intentionally don't sign your name to make it appear as though you are someone else, who is agreeing with what you previously said. Not sure if that amounts to sockpuppetry or not, but it is deceitful. You're not fooling anyone. That combined with the fact that you are a single-purpose account dedicated to trolling Harvard Extension School makes you, as far as I am concerned, not reliable at all. --146.115.122.89 (talk) 14:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Anonymous User: Please assume good faith! You are also an unreliable account, having only used your IP to do edits on the HES pages and pages related to this user. Don't bite the newbies! JRP (talk) 14:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks you both for your comments. I'll try to sign as much as possible. I'm sorry that you feel this way. There's nothing I can do but try to sign my name. --Extensiontf (talk) 05:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

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