User talk:Pilobola

Quick note

I began to fix the references in your article to comply with the style guidelines. A list of citation templates can be found at Citation quick reference. Let me know if you need help with the process. I use refTools which you can add to your edit toolbar by selecting it on your Preferences>Gadgets page. Mjpresson (talk) 06:49, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You should also feel free to contact any editor that has responded to you on their talk page if you don't want to go through the help desk. You can get help that's a little more personalized. Mjpresson (talk) 20:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And not to pile on your talk page, but here are some links:

A really good project would be to "wikify" significant terms in the article by linking them to their responding wikipedia article (if there is one) as I did with the city/state in the first sentence by placing two square brackets around the term such as [[apple]] becomes apple. Mjpresson (talk) 20:29, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article will be fine, it looks like it's being tended to since you brought some attention to it. I classified it as a "stub" so it will stay around and should attract even more editors. Mjpresson (talk) 02:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't had time to check the articles yet, but just click the "talk" link in my signature for my page. Don't worry, good faith edits gone wrong are no sin here and get fixed easily. When you address it on the help page, many see it and it usually gets fixed quickly.Mike. Mjpresson (talk) 21:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Roberto Calasso

Why did you change the spelling of his last name? It's 'Calasso'. Jkelly (talk) 21:50, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. my evil twin grabbed the steering wheelPilobola (talk) 21:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Well, here's to hoping for your twin's redemption in 2009. Happy New Year!. Jkelly (talk) 21:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chirikof Island

In 2003 I researched and wrote an 8,000 word article on Chirikof Island for my own amusement, since I had known one of the principals involved in its recent history personally. More recently, I noticed a very small entry about the island in Wikipedia that contained, say, three facts, all of them grotesquely wrong (e.g., that a tsunami scoured the island, that it was a penal colony). I quickly re-read my own article, summarized high spots of Chirikof history, and dropped them in along with a list of the publications I consulted and a couple of links. I see it's under threat of elimination. That, of course, is your privilege, but I urge you not to restore the misinformation that was there before. At this date (1/28/09) have no leisure time till the end of tax season (4/15/09) to give it my attention. I am also, from experience, disinclined to ever get mired again in Wikipedia's desktop publishing arcana. What I can do for you is, this coming summer (2009), attempt to footnote the material I inserted. I will write myself a note to check back and see if that's still the right thing to do come April 2009. Otherwise, I think you can safely assume I have learned my lesson and will never, ever touch another Wikipedia article, no matter how cockeyed it is. Said with no hard feelings, I assure you, just better boundaries.Pilobola (talk) 02:15, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chirikof Island

Last winter I promised to clean up the material I had added to what was a terriblly inaccurate page someone else had started. I threw in a bunch of colorful material without giving it the appropriate "encyclopedial" style and diction. You folks rightly found it objectionable and when I noticed the criticism, I promised to fix it after tax season ended, 4/15. I've fixed it as best I can and ask you to clean it up in your own highly professional fashion. You have my good faith word of honor that the material as it now stands is well researched. I appreciate that you apparently have special interest in getting good, accurate material on Alaskan subjects.

One quibble: someone whom I will call syntactically challenged kept changing my statement "few were knowledgeable enough...one who was was Capt. Morris" by DELETING ONE OF THE WAS'S. Every time I found this, I put the "was" back in. It would disappear again. I have tried an end run around this problem this time by writing "one who could was..." Please, by all that is holy and grammatically correct, do not change it.Pilobola (talk) 19:13, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request for feedback

Hiya! I just answered your request for feedback here. Sorry it took so long, not many editors have been getting over there recently. Because it took awhile, the thread was archived. If you have any further questions/comments, please respond on my talk page instead of editing the archive directly. If you find my feedback helpful, perhaps you would consider giving feedback to others on WP:FEED. Killiondude (talk) 23:44, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]