User talk:KnightTemplar48

Hi KnightTemplar48, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Welcome to Wikipedia! I am glad to see you are interested in discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:300 (film) are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not use talk pages such as Talk:300 (film) for general discussion of the topic. They are for discussion related to improving the article. They are not to be used as a forum or chat room. See here for more information. Thank you. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Editing and talk page tips

Hi- I saw your edits to the Bernard of Clairvaux article and wanted to give you a couple pointers if you don't mind.

If you want to put an external reference in an article--such as to the History Channel piece you cited in the Bernard article--it should go in the external links section, which is always at the bottom of the article. The Bernard article already has one, but you can make one if an article doesn't.
On talk pages, the standard procedure is to make new sections at the bottom of the page, not the top. It's also easier for other users who are watching/editing the same pages if you use the new section function instead of using the edit section link for a different section.
One more thing: it's also easier on your co-editors if you organize the changes you want to make first before you edit, rather than making a bunch of edits over the course of a few minutes. One thing that helps with that is checking spelling and spaces between sentences before you post the edits--Firefox makes that easy because you can have it check spelling as you type--see Tools>Options>Advanced>General. You can also add extensions that do that for other languages. I'm not trying to give you a hard time--I know you're new and just wanted to give you some tips.

Here are a couple pages on editing procedures:

Wikipedia:Talk_page

Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines

Wikipedia:External_links

Happy editing and thanks for your contributions! -Eric ^talk 16:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User page

I have removed some material that violated WP:SOAP and thus WP:USER (specifically [1]) from your user page. I quote WP:USER "Wikipedia pages may not be used for advocacy unrelated to Wikipedia." Also, "You might wish to start a blog or visit a forum if you want to convince people of the merits of your favorite views." I hope you understand. Cheers!--Agha Nader (talk) 04:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]