User talk:Pestergaines

Welcome

Hi, Pestergaines. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 12:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Pestergaines/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

-- Chzz ►

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I need a favor, could you assist?

I'm being hunted down like an animal, sadly, and I'm wondering whether you can assist before I'm banned from WP. You've seen - and approved - my edis on malinvestment. We've both dealt with BigK Hex's bizarre anti-Austrian censorship. The point is that editors can restore edits from banned editors if they independently consider those edits worthy. You have to defend them, but then reasonable edits that you agree with should easily be able to be defended. This version was effectively accepted by BKH when he deleted the QJAE article. All this version did was to add Rothbard's quote and re-format, but it greatly increased readability - which is why BKH probably deleted it. Your very relevant quote - which established first use of the concept - has been relegated to a footnote for no reason and it reads very poorly now. Could I please ask you to consider reverting to this version which after all was accepted by BKH before he called me a suspected sockppt, which is completely immaterial to the substance of the edits. You certainly won't in any way be associated with me if you revert, if you genuinely consider this version better than the brain damaged version that currently appears. No bad feelings if you don't feel the need to engage BKH but I simply make the offer because we're both interested in the concept of malinvestment and BKH's wikilawyering should not stop the article being improved. Of course I have no problem with you making your own edits, and further improving the article. But at least the current 'evolution-in-reverse' version should be improved. My sincere thanks for considering this. - Jessica'sGems (talk) 09:45, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]