User talk:Jihadcola

Yes the name is rather disturbing even with cola at the end of the name. I too, along with Steven Walling, would like to understand the name choice. Thank you! Aomment added by Taram

A barnstar for you!

	The Citation Barnstar
	Thank you for making more than a thousand edits to encyclopedia articles, and especially for adding useful citations to articles like Arms control. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 20:46, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. You should explain Jihad Cola on your userpage, it's an interesting name! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 20:50, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar! My first award :) I will have to come up with a userpage sooner or later, you're right... Jihadcola (talk) 06:01, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

... for working on those URLs at the WWII SF page. I am still hoping that the fellow who added the films to the WWII page will go back and tidy those up.

I hope it's not presumptuous of me, but on your user page you have "my new favorite past time". You may have meant "pastime".

From Canada, Varlaam (talk) 18:47, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thanks for pointing that out. I'm actually just about to make some updates to it since I just got back from my travels. Jihadcola (talk) 12:09, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit

Thanks for the copyedit on Mr Mulligan (horse). My spelling is excellent, but my keyboard isn't- hence "uickly". Note that for British topics, British spelling is preferred, so "favourite" is actually correct. Keep up the good work. Tigerboy1966 21:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your recent edit at Construction

Hi! Just a short note from one semi new editor to another. Editing on Wikipedia is a blast, isn't it? Glad you are here doing that. Just to let you know, it is perfectly fine for you to remove the orphan tag from an article once you "un-orphan" it. If I can ever be of help, feel free to message me at my talk page. Gtwfan52 (talk) 02:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks.Jihadcola (talk) 02:58, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Citations

Hi! A belated Welcome to Wikipedia!

I notice you've received accolades for adding missing citation publication information to articles. I want to thank you for being a fellow editor in this regard. It can be a lonely one.

I hope you don't mind my offering you some advice on the use of citation templates. Specifically, it's not necessary to include the words "Link to article" inside the templates, or to include the name of the publisher in the same value (you know, those areas in between the pipe dividers) as the source's title, as these should be in separate fields, as should the source's author and date (when it's given). For example, in the two citations you modified at the top of this edit

|title=Idolator.com Web Article: Will.i.am & Nicole Scherzinger’s “Hoola Hoop” Video Has “Leaked”: Watch

|title=Link to Allmusic.com's Nicole Scherzinger Web Page

These should properly be filled out thus:

|title=Will.i.am & Nicole Scherzinger’s 'Hoola Hoop' Video Has 'Leaked': Watch|publisher=Idolator|author=Daw, Robbie|date=August 29, 2012

|title=Nicole Scherzinger - Music Biography, Credits and Disography|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=October 7, 2012

Note that the names of the publishers are Idolator and AllMusic, and not Idolator.com or AllMusic.com, which are merely the urls of those publisher's websites, a common mistake that is found in citations. While there are indeed some websites that include their url suffix in their name, (like About.com) most of them, including these two, do not.

Note also that the quotation marks in the first cite's title were changed to single quote marks, because that title will have double-quote marks around it in the saved article. Note that the second citation gives an accessdate, because no publication date is given by the source, and that the its title is derived from the one displayed at the top of one's web browser when viewing that source, since an clear title isn't given on the page itself.

If it's useful to you, you can find a full list of citation templates here.

Don't worry about the Scherizinger article; I've added the missing information in question to cites in that article. And if you have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 04:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your copyedits!

Hi Jihadcola, thank you for copyediting Viktor Bulla, among other articles! You should join the Guild of Copyeditors – there are always outstanding requests from other Wikipedians for a skilled copyeditor to help get articles to Good and Featured status. It's a valuable role around here, and your work would very much be appreciated ;) Cheers, Accedie^{talk to me} 18:26, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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re DC and the Family

This series of edits introduced a really bad link -- a random blog with very defamatory and libelous material. If you ever come back, please be more careful about that sort of thing. Herostratus (talk) 13:12, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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