Masterdebater

Dude, you call yourself Masterdebater? Wow. Melchoir 21:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree. You have used the most trite expression in debate communities for your Wikipedia username. Wow indeed. Emersoni 22:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's a little late, but perhaps what I meant was this... hope you don't mind me putting it at the top of your talk page:

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Gettysburg Address

I left a note at the FAC page for this. Can you help me figure out what's not right with the ext.link formatting sections? Kaisershatner 04:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Lord of the Rings (film)

Hi. I modified your redirect page to point directly to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film) instead of the redirect page The Lord of the Rings (film). Its usually best when creating a redirect page to make sure it links to the One True Page (to borrow from the film). --Syrthiss 19:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I've now cleaned up the other redirects you have made, including the one you made after I warned you. Please don't do that again. --Syrthiss 19:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

My bad. I still don't completely understand redirects...Masterdebater 19:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Not a prob. The reason we want redirects to point to the target article instead of another redirect is mostly for bookkeeping, though there may be some deeper reason that I am not aware of at the moment. You can see when you've been redirected by little link at the top of the page that says something like:

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film)

(redirected from The Two Towers (film))

which is how I saw what was happening. I just wanted you to know so I didn't end up fixing redirects all day. =D --Syrthiss 19:26, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

policy debate pages

I really like the work you are doing on the debate pages. Keep in mind, however, that Wikipedia should not have an instructional and, especially, a national circuit tone. Try to write about the theory issues like an argument theory scholar would write about them, perhaps using scholastic debate as an example of their implementation. Best, Tfine80 04:38, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Images

You need to provide sources for lots of your images. If you got them offline... from where? If you made them... how? etc. gren グレン 09:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Most all of them. Your copyright tags may be correct but when uploading you should provide the source of where you got them. Since it doesn't appear you scanned them yourself you need the website from which they were procured. Just do something like "Source:<url>" You might also want to give an image description.

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