Sutton4019

Userpage contents

Please review Wikipedia:User page. I think the contents of your current user page are bordering on a breach of those guidelines and may be deleted. Feel free to comment at my talk page. -- Longhair\^talk 11:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I've noted the blanking of your user page, and have deleted it. Thanks. -- Longhair\^talk 11:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Sutton4019, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  -- Longhair\^talk 11:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hi, instead of editing individual talk pages, you can spread your message through the village pump or mailing lists (such as WikiEN-l). utcursch | talk 11:23, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help --Sutton4019 11:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

In the interest of clarity, I took the liberty of changing your section title at the village pump. When I read your post, I was expecting a question and had to read it three times to realize you were asking for volunteers. Lsi john 12:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for that. --Sutton4019 13:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Research Response

You may use my contributions as part of your research, thanks for asking. I contribute to Wikipedia mainly because I like the idea of sharing knowledge in a large collaborative, open-source project. I had used Wikipedia in informal research before contributing and contributing is a way of giving back. Lately my efforts have been helping with some of the Texas A&M projects and keeping my watchlist clean, but have contributed original articles such as Frost flowers. --Claygate 12:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't mind contributing to your research. Part of why I edit Wikipedia is I feel like I'm slightly contributing to society, so I can feel slightly more like I'm slightly contributing to society. I looked at your contributions though and you don't have many, so if this is your first account, you really gotta get acquainted with it before you do an elaborate study on it... a few hundred edits or so. At first I thought users on Wikipedia were elitist so I didn't edit too much, afraid my edits wouldn't be well received. Now I feel users on Wikipedia are elitist so I don't edit too much, but when I do don't care how its received. My most noble cause on this site is keeping slander out of pages on living people. Wikipedia can have a tremendous effect and many people take it in verbatim with no filter, so I try to be a clever filter. Leopold Stotch 14:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

research

Just in case you didn't get my email reply, I'd be more than happy to participate in the research. VanTucky 17:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Research and tools

You don't need special permission to look through people's edits - they are posted on the site publicly. There are even some tools on the toolserver to analyze user edits, like this one. Indeed, with 2 terrabytes of hard drive space, you could download wikipedia and analyze everyone's contribs. At any rate, you can analyze my edits as much as you like. --h2g2bob (talk) 20:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

This tool is probably better --h2g2bob (talk) 20:11, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Duplication?

Your planned study looks to me like it might be close to a complete duplication of the work done by User:WikiInquirer, earlier this year. The results of that work are reportedly here (I got a timeout when I tried to bring it up). WikiInquirer last posted about two weeks ago, so he should be available via a posting to his talk page. Also, his email is enabled, I believe - click on the "Email this user" link once you're at his user page or user talk page, so you can send him email if you want.

I also hope you're aware of Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies, and are not duplicating any work that is listed there. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Research

All edits are released under licence and aren't private. You don't need permission to view them or analyse them (as far as I know). Mine are the other side of a link in my signature.

I mainly edit Wikipedia because I have no life I need friends I'm chained to this computer - help! I have an incrediable thirst for gaining and spreading knowledge and can't bear the thought of people accessing false (OK, dubious) information (e.g. creationism) presented as fact. I'm somewhat megalomanic in that sense.

_{Escape Artist Swyer} ^{Talk to me} _{Articles touched by my noodly appendage} 13:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)