User talk:Jgard5000

Welcome!

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Larceny

Thanks again for helping. Please keep up the good work. Bearian (talk) 20:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You've done an excellent job putting together an ambitious project. --Jgard5000 (talk) 22:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)--Jgard5000 (talk) 22:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)jgard5000[reply]

Your recent edits

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July 2009

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Your recent edits

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Economics edits

Hello-I figured I should say hello so that disagreements in specific articles don't lead to animosity. You're working on articles that need work, and I definitely think some of the material you're adding is worthwhile. You should maybe join the Wikiproject economics, and watch the project talk page (which often has useless arguments, but sometimes has stuff genuinely helpful for economics articles).

You're being very bold in your editing, so I'm not keeping up. I think that some of your material added needs work, and so I'm objecting to bits and pieces. I'll probably want to come back through and work with it more. One point I think you should keep an eye out for is avoiding original research. Several of your edits have had an editorial air about them. I might agree with your comments (some yes, some no), but many of the comments don't belong in a WP article, or only belong if they can be attributed to a reliable source.

Anyway, thanks for working on important articles. If I manage time for WP soon, then working with you on those articles will likely be my priority.

O yeah, also--I've noticed several of your edits are adding your signature to the article. Please be careful to only leave your signature on the talk pages. CRETOG8(t/c) 02:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If any one of the score or more of rebuttals to the economic theory of supply and demand could be cited by a reliable source in the economic community, it would be worthy of inclusion, which is to say, would you be able to find a reliable source, or point me in the right direction? Anarchangel (talk) 02:02, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Try Eric Beinhocker there is a Wiki article about him - --Jgard5000 (talk) 04:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)jgard5000[reply]

There is no animosity - i know threr is some editorializing but i use it to prompt responses to genuine issues that need discussing before they are incorporated into the articles. and often it is just style you can be encylclopedic without being stilted. But i don't mind criticism i welcome it and many of my mistakes are due to my unfamiliarity with the process and protocol.--Jgard5000 (talk) 19:10, 24 September 2009 (UTC)jgard5000[reply]

Redundant information on Miranda v. Arizona

While the added information on Miranda v. Arizona is appreciated, you seem to be frequently adding redundant information to the article. Example, your most recent edits twice noted the fact that the Miranda warnings are not a required part of arrest procedure, and I believe there were already a few other locations that mentioned this. Since Wikipedia is not a legal reference, just an encyclopedia, redundant information the same information makes the article harder to take in. Much like how names of relevant Wikipedia articles are only linked the first time they arise, could you please limit each clarifying statement to only the first case where clarification is desirable, and assume that people can scroll back up to reference it if needed? -ShadowRangerRIT (talk) 19:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - gotten a bit carried away with the article - --Jgard5000 (talk) 04:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)Jgard5000 But the public having scene a gazillion episodes of law and order where the cops arrest the guy as he is exchanging his vows and advise him of hi Miranda rights as thye drag him down the aisle - maybe redudancy is justfified or maybe NY requires it - who knows.Jgard5000 (talk) 21:49, 8 October 2009 (UTC)jgard5000[reply]

refs

Hello--Could you look at Wikipedia:Footnotes and WP:CITE? They should help you with footnotes. In general, we don't want to use things like "Id" or "ibid". For one reason, someone might come in and insert something new, and then your "ibid" would no longer be correct. By naming the refs (see how at Wikipedia:Footnotes), you can re-use them pretty easily in different parts of an article, and they turn out pretty clean at the bottom. CRETOG8(t/c) 22:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signing comments

I thought I'd try and be helpful. Two things: One, make sure you're signed in before responding (otherwise it just posts your IP). Two, you only need to type in ~~~~, not ~~~~username. As it happens, that habit made it easy to see that your comment on Talk:Miranda v. Arizona was from you, not a random anonymous user (since your user name came immediately after the IP signature) but it's not needed. ~~~~ is enough, or --~~~~ if you prefer. --ShadowRangerRIT (talk) 16:20, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks i should learn these things before i jump inJgard5000 (talk) 17:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC)jgard50000[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User page:Jgard5000

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FYI, the location of your user page is User:Jgard5000, not User page:Jgard5000. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:43, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Test pages

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Best, --LK (talk) 04:08, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject economics

Hello--I've just started a discussion of your article updates at the Wikiproject economics talk page. I think you're improving the articles, but it looks to me like you could use some help, also. I encourage you (it's totally up to you, of course) to join the discussion there and to join the Wikiproject. CRETOG8(t/c) 18:54, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A well earned Barnstar

		The Business and Economics Barnstar
		For tirelessly improving the quality of Economics articles on Wikipedia. LK (talk) 19:18, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent job on the many economics articles that you have been editing. Your good work is seen and appreciated! LK (talk) 19:18, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

reference formatting

Hello-I'd like to suggest you look more at wiki tools for formatting your references. Particularly, check out this. It shows how to enter a complete reference just once, and then shortened references like <ref name="fooo"> thereafter. Probably less important, but I also like using citation templates to format. You can see about those here. CRETOG8(t/c) 17:40, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Reference for Frank's PED estimate for marijuana

Thanks for adding this estimate. Could you provide a page number for it, too? Several participants in the Econ Project will soon begin a significant revision of the PED article with the goal of achieving Featured Article (FA) status for it. Part of the FA review process is a thorough scrubbing of the references by the independent reviewers, so a missing page number could cause problems. Your contributions to the PED revision process will be most welcome! --Jackftwist (talk) 18:05, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I second that, it's always nice to have new contributors to an article. Could you also reference your additions to the determinants section? Thanks. - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 08:20, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding the page number to this citation. Thanks also for the 2 clarifications and citations from Frank you added to the "Determinants" section. Eventually, I hope to get around to making 2 very minor changes to the latter: (1) When 2 or more consecutive sentences within the same paragraph have an identical cite (including page number), it's generally adequate to show just 1 cite, after the last applicable sentence (or part of it) that comes from that citation, rather than putting 2 separate but identical cites after each applicable sentence. On the other hand, once you start a new paragraph, a separate cite would be needed, even though it's identical (unless the separate paragraphs are all direct quotations from the source). Full disclosure: Yes, I tend to be pretty anal/obsessive-compulsive about such minutiae! But the Featured Article reviewers are even more O-C, and we want to leave as few easy targets for them as possible. :) (2) Rearranging each paragraph slightly to integrate the first sentence of each of those edits into the paragraph a bit more smoothly for clarity and readability (IMHO). --Jackftwist (talk) 20:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aggregation problem

Hello, J. A belated thx for adds of all text sections in Aggregation problem. You might well be the only one in our lifetimes likely to be able to locate easily the p. number of the Kreps reference & other uncited sources in other sections after the Lead. Any possibility that you could supply those without too much difficulty? I think that the sections are much more likely to be read if there was a page-specific source that the reader could follow up on. I'll stay tuned here or at the article if you'd like to respond. Best wishes,Thomasmeeks (talk) 07:18, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Complicity

I'm a little worried that we're duplicating existing content here, and not including sufficient links to indicate the overlap. For example, my removal of the second "elements" section was an attempt to prevent duplication of the existing, and thorough, coverage at conspiracy (crime). Similarly, I believe that in indicating " Complicity encompasses accessorial and conspiratorial liability", one must be careful to include all the information Wikipedia has about these subjects, and more importantly recognise that more lengthy explanation on each of these two things should be provided on individual pages - currently Accessory (legal term) and Conspiracy (crime). I would appreciate it if we could at least open a dialogue on this. - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 14:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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