User talk:MikeBlockCPA

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QuickBooks

I have had to revert your changes at QuickBooks because they don't seem consistent with normal encyclopedic style. First, it is only on talk pages that signatures (four tildes) are used; we never put user names into an article. Second, text such as "It also runs substantially slower" should not be added without a reference (we should not add our own opinions even if they are correct). Third, we don't refer to Google searches: just put encyclopedic information without excessive detail, and use a reference. Unfortunately, it takes quite a while to get used to all the procedures commonly used here, and they are totally different from what would be appropriate on many other sites. Johnuniq (talk) 10:10, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this. Please see revised QuickBooks changes. MikeBlockCPA (~~talk~~) 12:54:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment on my talk page. In response, while I do not want to take the time to properly think about QuickBooks at the moment, I will make some generic comments regarding edits. Per WP:NPOV we generally avoid language like "QuickBooks tried to force users..." and would instead use text like "QuickBooks attempted to require users..." ("force" has a lot of bad connotations and should not be used without a really reliable source which you will almost never find for a comment on a company). Also, in a very quick look at the source I could not see "30 months" (to verify text "disables ... approximately 30 months...").

I am confused by your signature above because it includes my talk page info (which I have struck out). Possibly you manually made your signature by changing a copy of my signature? You should not do that. Instead, on the last line of your comment, type a space then four tilde characters (" ~~~~"). See WP:TP. We sign comments on talk pages, but we do not sign changes made to articles. Also, I put a colon (:) before your comment to indent it. Johnuniq (talk) 08:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Limbaugh

This is not the place for a Rush Limbaugh page comment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_limbaugh. However, there seems to be a clear error, and a seemingly impermissible political statement, on a locked page there. I commented on this there, and had my comment erased without Talk. It starts Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced /ˈlɪmbɔː/. Unless the trailing : means something, the limbo is simply wrong. It is the common deliberate way Limbaugh opponents pronounce his name, to say he is dead. The man himself pronounces it LIM-BAW. MikeBlockCPA (~~talk~~) 1:07:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re Rush Limbaugh: Your user account has not been used to edit that article or its talk page (see Special:Contributions/MikeBlockCPA). I know almost nothing about the pronunciation guide, however it is very unlikely that the problem you perceive is real because someone would have noticed it and fixed it by now. An article like that gets many dubious edits and comments, so it is quite likely that some comments are simply removed. Johnuniq (talk) 08:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Lowell Wood footnote

I reverted your edit. You placed a footnote after the opening sentence of a paragraph, but the same footnote had already been used for the whole paragraph. Therefore, the additional footnote was superfluous in this case. Peaceray (talk) 19:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not in source

I see now that your edit was trying to address the [citation needed] in "Wood meets and consults with global think tanks on global warming.[citation needed]" That Wood meets & consults with global think tanks is not established in that article. Hence the reason that I used the {{Citation needed}} template rather than the existing reference. Peaceray (talk) 19:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]