User talk:Jadedrick

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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal

Hi, I undid all edits you made to the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, because you removed the format of the article, the references and the see also section. This isn't considered an imporvement. Please be aware of the normal format used in Wikipedia articles. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk)

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:32, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate to put in the edit summary that I work for the IEEE Awards department and these changes were made to make all of the pages consistent on the wikipedia? I just don't want to have to do these over multiple times. Thank you. - Jadedrick 14:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It helps if you start discussing your moves. But after you told me this, I think all other IEEE Awards should be changed. I have got a very specific idea about how wikipedia articles should be assembled. The first line should explain about the essence of the topic. The essence of an award is that it is an "award for exceptional achievement". All these kind of article should start like this.

In the IEEE you have your own website were can do whatever you like. These websites are normally for insiders. Now the difference here is, that Wikipedia articles are written for outsiders.

-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since you have a specific format in mind, what is the format that you would like me to use for these pages? Note that each award is for exceptional achievement in different areas so the scope of each award will have to be included. Thanks - Jadedrick 11:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The format of the current article is just fine, allthough I am not sure about the chronology. Maybe the list could/should start with the first 1984 awardwinner.

I wonder if you realize why I referted your first change of the article, see here. Maybe I should explain some more:

You putted the phrase "established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1982" in the first place but I think it should be second.
You removed the references
You added an extra line, which is not done
You added all red links, which is not prefered by a lot of experienced editors.

I guess you don't realize the article is developed by User:Allan McInnes and me, and we are both very experienced Wikipedians, with very specific ideas about format. We are always prepared to explain our edits, so better ask instead of making those changes again. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 11:44, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. You should sign your post with ~~~~ This automatically translates in your username, time and data. It is just standard courtesy around here.

Hello, I see what you were saying. All I was trying to do was follow the other already approved pages that were on wikipedia (IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal). I changed the listing of the recipients because every other page has the earliest recipients listed first. i did not add red links, i don't know how they got there. So I can finish my task at hand, can I use the Bell medal page as my template? Thank you. - Jadedrick

You are making a lot of mistakes, repeately. Please just use the article as a template and don't just go your own way. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:48, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So am I to understand that the Bell medal page is acceptable to you as a template? I want to do this correctly and within your guidelines. I am not trying to be difficult, but I have a lot of these that I need to update in not a lot of time. Thank you. - Jadedrick

The IEEE Simon Ramo Medal article is fine, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is fine. The things is that, I doubt, wheter or not there should be one and only one template for all award articles. I could be all right to make some small changes in the format, and to let different formats excist such as in the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:18, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signing your post

You should sign your post on talkpages with these four ~~~~ signs. You don't sign edits you make to articles. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:59, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IEEE Internet Award

The edits you just made to the IEEE Internet Award are no improvement. I have shown you repeately what I expect of you. If you don't improve. I will consider further edits like this a vandalism and will report you to an administrator that will have you blocked. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like we are not speaking the same language, all I am trying to do is make them all consistent. I will follow the template that is there for the Internet award for all of the other ones that I am trying to do. I am sorry for the trouble but I just want to do them right and need some guidance.Jadedrick (talk) 15:02, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok you have signed you comment. That is a first step. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:03, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean about the red links. They stay red if they don't have a page created for them. I will go back and remove them from all of the pages that I created that don't have related pages set up yet. Thank youJadedrick (talk) 15:05, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes removing the red links is a good step. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:08, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award

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Proposed deletion of IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper

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