User talk:Magnet For Knowledge

Magnet For Knowledge 04:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)Welcome![reply]

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Magnet For Knowledge 04:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Howard Stern Show

Hey Magnet, welcome to Wikipedia. I echo Lahiru k's suggest above that you familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's policies. In the Wikipedia Manual of Style, you will find that headings within article follow sentence case, not title case. See WP:MSH for more detail. Your edits to The Howard Stern Show headings were incorrect. Everyone makes mistakes when they first join the project, but I wanted to point this out to you and ask you to go back and fix this. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 02:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page

You placed it just fine. As long as you hit the talk page, there's really no way to be wrong :) - Nunh-huh 04:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I appreciate the feedback/education. I will admit that I don't know how to properly respond to your messages (I hit 'edit' in this instance), so please help me with that, if you don't mind.

As for the fact that headings within an article following sentence case rather than title case: if I understand you correctly, the system defaults to sentence case, right? If that is so, then why can't the original author go into the subheadings and change them to sentence case? For instance, a subheading referring to "World war two" or "The howard stern show" would be incorrect, because the former is the name of an event, and each of the three words should be capitalized; and the latter is a proper pronoun. Just because a particular computer system defaults in a particular way, doesn't mean it can't, or shouldn't, be changed. -- User:Magnet of Knowledge


A couple of things:

  1. Please "sign" your comments by adding four tildes at the end, i.e., ~~~~. This puts your user name and the date and time.
  2. usually people respond on the talk page of the person who posted the comment on your talk page. You can get to someone's talk page by clicking on their userid, and then on the "discussion" tab at the top of their page. I've added your page to my watchlist, so I saw your response appear. Not everyone does this.

With respect to headings, there is no system default. If you use title case in headings within articles, that is how it will appear to all users. For the sake of consistent appearance of articles, the Wikipedia community chose (long before I joined) to use sentence case for headings in all articles, rather than title case. There is a discussion of the difference at WP:CAPITAL.

In sentence case, proper nouns are capitalized, and common nouns are not. (In title case, commons nouns and verbs and adjectives and adverbs are all capitalized.) The first word is always capitalized, of course. In the examples you used above, we're looking at proper nouns, so "World War II" and "The Howard Stern Show" are correct. "World war II" and "The howard stern show" are incorrect.

The changes you made to the headings in the HSS article did not involve proper nouns for the most part, so they were not consistent with Wikipedia style, i.e., sentence case. For example, you revised a heading to read "Parting Ways With Clear Channel". This should be "Parting ways with Clear Channel". 'Clear Channel' is a proper noun. 'Ways' and 'with' are not proper nouns in this context. Well, I don't think 'with' is ever a noun at all.

If you don't change them, someone else will have to. I am sure that you will want to fix your own mistakes, though. If I can be of further help, please let me know either here or on my talk page. Regards, and again, welcome to Wikipedia. Ground Zero | t 04:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the article and decided that it needed a good house-cleaning, so I corrected the headings as I went along. Ground Zero | t 05:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Every day vs. everyday

Thanks for your edit (and summary) on the Hollywood Henderson article. This very distinction, as it happens, was the subject of one of the only times I seriously challenged an instructor's grading of my work, and 20 years later it still irks me a bit. An otherwise excellent copy editing teacher marked my answer wrong when I changed the sentence, "He does that everyday"; she insisted that since the AP Stylebook only listed the compound "everyday," with no explanatory comment, that it should always be written as one word. No amount of effort could get her to see that they merely were clarifying that the compound form wasn't hyphenated. I had a stellar record on our daily quizzes, and her stubborn error had me so irritated that I even wrote the Stylebook people — not that I got an answer! Ah, those bright college days of yore ... Lawikitejana 00:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


(I sure hope I'm doing this correctly!) Lawikitejna, I'm struggling through the learning-process of not offending the delicate sensibilities of the wiki veterans, while at the same time attempting to uplift the knowledge base in the areas of spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and mood tense.

Thank you for acknowledging my contribution. Magnet For Knowledge 00:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Test. Magnet For Knowledge 06:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries are not signed

Thanks for your contributions. I noticed you are placing ~~~~ in your edit summaries but there is no reason for that. It doesn't transform to a signature in an edit summary. It is intended to sign posts to talk pages and discussions like this one. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For your edit on correcting "Soldiers" to "Marines". Wikipedia has a lot of problems with things like that (example: Paratrooper to Soldier, and Marksman to Sniper). As you can probably tell, Letters from Iwo Jima has an overly long plot section, and me and a couple other editors have been working on it. Please feel free to help. Yojimbo501 (talk) 16:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, it is just like a normal edit except you sign it, as you did. Yojimbo501 (talk) 18:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help! (test)

Test.

Delhi Transport Edit

The edit fixed a lot of grammar, but Avis Car Rental and Hertz dont provide radio taxis but cars for hire, so you put in a factual inaccuracy. --TvKimi (talk) 07:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

section headings

According to the Wikipedia manual of style, section headings are not capitalized as you would a title, but rather as you would a sentence. Thus, in Oradour-sur-Glane, for example, "Diekmann's conduct" is correct, and "Diekmann's Conduct" is wrong. I've changed those back for you. - Nunh-huh 09:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

it's vs its

yeah, and I know the difference too...but of all the typos I make, it probably isn't the stupidest. Sometimes I type "the" twice, so it reads "the the", and sometimes I write "know" instead of "no". That is what copy editors are for. You could just edit it and not be so insulting, or maybe the insult is part of the fun.--Ishtar456 (talk) 20:20, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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