JeanGeilland

Welcome

Welcome!

I just happened to notice an edit to "rodenticide" which is on my watchlist, and thought the name sounded vaguely familiar. The style also looks quite familiar. Do I know you? Anyway, here is the standard boilerplate welcome:

Hello, JeanGeilland, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Slashme (talk) 11:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Original research

Hi "Jean",

I found your edits to the rodenticide article very interesting, but some of the material will definitely fall foul of the Wikipedia policy on "original research". Briefly, anything in an encyclopedia article (obviously this doesn't go for the associated talk pages) must be able to be sourced from reliable secondary sources. This policy was formulated to a large extent to combat a flood of crank theories in the physics articles, but is one of the fundamental Wikipedia policies.

Anyway, I'm off to the physical eating part of my lunch-break, so I'll check in again tomorrow! --Slashme (talk)

Learning the ropes

Hmm, obviously I was being too subtle. My user page is User:Slashme and my talk page is User_talk:Slashme. Now I suppose you understand how I recognized your style ;-)

Anyway, it was pure coincidence that I noticed your edit, but if you hadn't primed me earlier I might not have connected the dots. The reasons that I picked it up in a quick scan of my watchlist were:

• Your username was highlighted in red, because you have not yet written anything at User:JeanGeilland, a typical indication of a new user. I try to help new users as much as possible.
• The link to your talk page was highlighted in red, meaning that no-one had written you any messages yet.
• You hadn't put in an edit summary on your latest edit. Although some people do malicious edits with misleading edit summaries, a good edit summary usually indicates a good edit. The lack of an edit summary usually makes me:
  • Check out the edit and if necessary the page history using Navigation popups
  • Check whether the user habitually fails to give edit summaries
  • If necessary remind the user to add edit summaries.

Anyway, work calls! I'll be in touch. --Slashme (talk) 06:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Rhabdomys

Hi, While responding on Wikipedia talk:No original research, I wikilinked Rhabdomys pumilio and thence found Rhabdomys. Were you aware that there is an argument to split the genus into two species? If I understand the article correctly, we have dilectus around here. --Slashme (talk) 05:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Aware? Nope. Surprised? Just guess! I'll check it out.

Thanks,

JeanGeilland (talk) 11:53, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Sections on talk pages

Hi again,

I saw your edit to Talk:Khat this morning, but I've been off Wiki for a while editing a religious tract ;-). To make sections on Wikipedia, just enclose the title between equals signs. Anything else (especially including a long line of equals signs) is not pukka. More equals signs make a lower-level heading. Theoretically, a top-level heading is between one equals sign, and that works, but due to historical reasons, it isn't used. Here are some headings:

Top level heading

Not used

Second level heading

used as top level heading on Wikipedia

etc

"second" level heading

etc

and so on.

To see them all, just click on the "edit this page" link at the top. --Slashme (talk) 08:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Paragraphs

Hi again,

One more tip: To make paragraphs, use a double newline, like this:

A new paragraph, with single newlines between, looks like no haiku.

A space at the start     *
of every line you write  *
maintains formatting     *

To indent text, start each line with a colon, like this:

Indented text starting with a colon and using a very very very very very very very very very very very very very long line so that you can see how it wraps, both on the screen and in the edit window.

Some more indented text. Note that it starts a new paragraph.

Double-indent.

--Slashme (talk) 08:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Your picture

Your file can be included into pages like this:

--Slashme (talk) 05:28, 22 October 2010 (UTC)