User talk:Flatshooter

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! tedder (talk) 21:10, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

May 2010

Your addition to Honda CB750 has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

• This edit was copied from here. --Dbratland (talk) 03:26, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't. Although it was a public press release (three of them), it came from a web site.

replying on talk pages

Hi Flatshooter, I had to revert this change to a talk page. For one, it's very bad form to interject in the middle of another user's comment. It's hard to tell who wrote what, especially after the comment has been there for a while. Please read Wikipedia's talk page guidelines. In short, it's best to reply at the END of a section and then sign that paragraph. tedder (talk) 05:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Types of motorcycles, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Biker Biker (talk) 10:56, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

A couple of style points.

Nice contributions to Motorcycle fairing. However, I have a couple of points. First, you don't sign contributions in articles - only in talk pages. Second, you didn't format your references correctly. A reference goes immediately after punctuation (no spaces) and is either formatted like an external link, or better still using one of the {{citation}} templates such as {{cite book}} or {{cite web}}. Take a look at how I changed the article after you edited it to see what I changed, and go look at other articles to see how the citations templates are used. If you need any help, just shout. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:05, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

MOS:PAIC also has some helpful formatting info. Brianhe (talk) 23:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)