User talk:Meinertsen

Meinertsen

Goal: Research of the most important entities in the financial markets

Interest

I redirected because the original "interest" page had to do exclusively with the financial meaning of the word. It looked like the content was largely the same too, although I may have missed something. Generally wikipedia tries to avoid duplicate pages.Bjones 19:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, another way to do it would be to leave the financial entry in Interest, and create an Interest (disambiguation) page for the other uses. Which is best? I don't want to say, but you could bring it up as a question at the Village Pump.

Regards.Bjones 00:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome!

Let's start off the the official welcome:

Welcome!

Hello, Meinertsen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Petros471 22:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Second, I'd like to point out Wikipedia:Naming conventions, which specifies "Prefer singular nouns" when naming articles. I've fixed one the articles you contributed to, would you mind doing the others? Any questions about this, or anything else please let me know on my talk page. --Petros471 22:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Single names

Thanks for following that up. It might seem annoying at times, and there is quite a lot of it, but official policy and guidelines are there for a good reason.

Sorry about that- what happened is a so-called 'edit conflict' (not necessarily people disagreeing with each other!). If you read the error page that comes up carefully you see there are two edit boxes, one with your edits, one with the other editors. If you want to keep yours you can copy and paste the text form your version into the other one. However when working on substantial changes to articles it might be better to use a 'sandbox', e.g. a subpage from your user page.

For example, the article Credit derivative. I've reverted that back to the last version with content, as you replaced that with headings. If you want to make substantial changes to that article I suggest discussing them on article's talk page (the 'discussion' tab at the top of the screen), and creating 'your' (no-one on Wikipedia owns articles) work on a subpage. To create subpages, you might find Wikipedia:Subpages useful.

Hope that helps, feel free to get back to me on my talk page with any further questions. --Petros471 11:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Couple of other points of note that I thought might be useful:

Previous edits (your and others) are never ‘lost’; they can all be accessed from the edit history (the history tag). This is useful if you want to get at what you've started writing but has been reverted, or to see what other people have written to see how that can be used and improved on.
You should also keep in mind the official policy Wikipedia:No original research, often a problem for experts in a particular field. This can be overcome by always citing sources.

--Petros471 11:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Interest derivatives

Just to let you know that I reverted back the Interest rate derivatives article to the Oct. 29 version.

You've got lots of ideas there, but it is very hard to follow since they are not completed. May I ask that you do one section at a time? That way everybody can see what you're doing and comment or edit.

Let's follow up in the discussion page of the article, if needed.

Thanks.

Smallbones 21:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't do copy and paste moves

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