TheObsidianFriar

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Hello, TheObsidianFriar! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 19:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Adoption

Would you like to be adopted by me? Respond here please! Welcome to Wikipedia and happy editing! Derild4921☼ 14:33, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes I would love to be, Thanks for your kindness!! TheObsidianFriar (talk) 19:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Great, please add to your userpage, this will help identify that you have been adopted. Now, the first thing to know is your interests. Find a few WP:Wikiprojects that fit your interest. A list can be found here. After getting experience editing the article space, you can move to more behind the scenes work such as WP:CSD, WP:AFD, fighting Wikipedia:Vandalism and voting at WP:RFA! Derild4921☼ 23:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Great job so far, but remeber to use the edit summary box to briefly describe your changes. This will let other editors know what you did even without seeing the dif. Also, try using Wikipedia:RefToolbar to help create references. TO enable it, go to Preferences/Gadgets/Editing gadgets and check off refTools. Then, the next time you need to write a ref click on the button above the editing box with {{Cite}} on it and it will give you choices. Pick the write one and fill as much information as possible. Derild4921☼ 14:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Alright, thanks! I'll be sure to use that as much as possible when I edit. TheObsidianFriar (talk) 20:30, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Currently, when I create a reference, I use this method : . But may I ask if there any other ways of doing this? and also, what is the difference between a reference, a source and a note? TheObsidianFriar (talk) 07:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

The only way to make refs are with the <ref></ref> tags. There different types of references such as cite web, cite news and cite book. Those are specific references for a specific type of source and are avaliable with the RefTool. General, references are a section when all the sources are websites or news. Notes are used when no link can be found for a term or to explain something complicated without having to take up space in the main article. In different articles, sources and references are used differently. If you look at an article I wrote, [[Into the Wild {warriors)]], you will that the references is used without a sources section. In that article, I used RefTools to generate the citation and kept letting the citation direct back to the references section. Bit confusing now. Meanwhile, in Edmund Evans, refernces section only has the citations down and the use of the citation go to the Sources section. Generally, IMO, Sources are for when books are used so the information can be found on a specific page instead of just citing the whole book as the source. References are for websites that only contain one page of information. This is confusing so ask more question if neccassary! Derild4921☼ 13:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Just checking back in again, are you still active? Derild4921☼ 13:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I am almost always online in my free time. I am currently learning how to insert pictures.TheObsidianFriar (talk) 22:16, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Pictures are tricky business, you have to make the picture is free. The only pictures I have uploaded are Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria for book covers. Derild4921☼ 22:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

I see, so I cannot take a picture of something copyrighted and upload it?TheObsidianFriar (talk) 22:33, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Exactly, unless the image fall under Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. If you click upload file which is under toolbox on the left side, bullets 6-9 fall under the criteria. Derild4921☼ 22:55, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Guestbook linkage trouble

Just so you know, you accidentally linked your guestbook incorrectly when adding it to Bydand's list. You linked it as User:TheObsidianFriar/Guest book when on your main page you say User:TheObsidianFriar/Guestbook. There is one signature on each page. What are you going to do; which one do you want to delete? ^{Here's the only} _{new, improved} Finalius! 10:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC) (PS: actually the links are vice versa, but that doesn't change the situation ^{Here's the only} _{new, improved} Finalius!)

Oh, thank you very much! I did not notice this mistake, I'll correct it right now and thank you for telling me!TheObsidianFriar (talk) 21:26, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments

Why did you undue a number of contributions I made to the article on unequal treaties with out any discussion? Are you aware this violates Wikipedia policy, that there is a 3 strikes limit on such changes? All of my changes were referenced against either recognized authoritative textbooks, or where available, established newspaper & scholarly publications on-line, can I ask what sources you have at hand to discount them? The Immobile Empire (talk) 09:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I have not made any violation of Wikipedia policy in my removal of irrelevant and biased additions to the Unequal treaty article which do not meet Wikipedia standards. I hope that you are aware of the Wikipedia Ignore all rules policy, which dictates that using common sense is a fundamental principle above any policy. Below are examples of your contributions that led me to manually revert the article back to a previous version. →″By the 20th Century, China could no longer pretend to superiority, and many modern Chinese just hoped to be considered an equal among nations for the time being.″— This is the starting sentence for the second paragraph that you added under the Overview section for the Unequal Treaty article. As you can see, it is not written from a neutral point of view. It is opinionated and leads readers to none of what is expected in the overview of an article. It does not prepare the reader for the selected list of unequal treaties that comes right after, nor does it cover over anything that is important and pertaining to the subject matter in general. →″Ignoring nearly 2000 years of unequal treaties and unwritten agreements between Hegemonic China and tributary Korea″— This was taken from around line 24 under your edit of the overview section. This is again, a starting sentence that you added to a paragraph. You referenced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tributaries_of_Imperial_China which is another Wikipedia article. Understand that in reverting your contributions, I am following Wikipedia guidelines and I am only trying to improve the article itself. I am not going against your viewpoints or attacking you or your contributions in any way. Wikipedia has a standard that cannot be ignored. If a contribution is seen to be inadequate and unfit for an article, it will be speedily edited (whether by me or another editor). Please know that all of your contributions can and will be mercilessly edited if they are seen as unfit for the article. Please see the Five Pillars of Wikipedia and you will understand.

In addition, most of, if not all of the topics that you have brought in, are covered by other articles. In short, the majority of your edits do not progress the article in the direction of the subject matter and therefore do not belong in the Unequal treaty article. I hope now you understand where I am standing in reverting a number of your contributions. Thanks! TheObsidianFriar (talk) 06:49, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: The Martial Arts Barnstar

Hey! TheObsidianFriar, thanks for the award! It's especially treasured because it is my very first award! Bruno talk 03:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome and you definitely deserve it because of your knowledge about and contributions towards martial arts. Now that you are here please sign my guestbook! TheObsidianFriar (talk) 06:24, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Main page: User:TheObsidianFriar/Guest book

A barnstar for you!

		The Barnstar of Good Humor!
		Hello TheObsidianFriar. You have signed my guestbook! Thank you very much.--Pratyya (Hello!) 04:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

TAZARA Railway

I added back the deterioration section, hope you don't mind. It seemed well referenced, and considering the importance of railways in Southern Africa, it seemed relevant. Wizzy…☎ 06:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. I'll continue to search for new sources which we can add, thanks for informing me TheObsidianFriar (talk) 19:09, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

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