User talk:Ofus

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I'm lonely. No one ever talks to me qq x 10000

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Jack Kemp

I noticed you edited Jack Kemp this week. Your opinion on this article would be welcome at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jack Kemp.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

greetings and salutations

Welcome to wikipedia. Yes, the citation is very useful. There has been much debate about controversy and the first passage defines it well. I've read Dr. Silver's advice on LD online. He has an impressive resume and would be considered an expert, "Dr. Silver, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, is in private practice in the Washington, D. C. area. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to his current activities, he was Acting Director and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. Prior to his positions at the National Institute of Mental Health he was Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Pediatrics, and Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. For more than thirty years his primary areas of research, clinical, and teaching interest have focused on the psychological, social, and family impact of a group of related, neurologically-based disorders—Learning Disabilities, Language Disabilities,Sensory Integration Dysfunction, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". You can insert quoted material directly into the article, keep it brief. You can summarize information from passages, or you can post a potential edit first on the talk page. If you are quoting, the citation should be included. Give it a shot, I'll be watching as will many others. All editors are supposed to give newbies some leeway so don't worry about making mistakes. Look at the last pillar of the five pillars of editing. It allows for being bold, and I believe that to be especially true when an article is biased or not factual. The trick is what to do when your edit is rejected or criticized. My advice, sit on your hands, then post in talk.

If you plan at all to continue with Wikipedia, I'd consider changing your "user page", especially if you plan to edit controversial topics such as ADHD. Although editors are supposed to focus on content instead of the contributor, but things can get heated, and ANY past error may very well get thrown right back in your face. That's experience talking.--scuro (talk) 02:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the advice, scuro. I thought I'd wait and let the heat die down for a while before adding the quote. Hopefully now cooler heads are prevailing over there, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the advice about my user page as well, it was well taken :) Ofus (talk) 11:07, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, that didn't last very long. bleh... Ofus (talk) 03:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

LinkedLN mispelling

I don't think we should delete redirects from misspellings for web companies just because of a remote possibility of phishing sites. It is customary for us to include common misspellings in redirects. Gigs (talk) 15:30, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I completely understand and agree with the custom of redirecting common misspellings in general. I've set up quite a few myself. However, in many browsers' address bar, a lower case i and a lower case l look enough alike that someone could actually read linkedin as linkedln (I know because I did it myself ;p). Since the LN site appears to be set up for the sole reason of collecting traffic meant for the IN site; since i and l can be hard to differentiate for some in some circumstances; since I myself went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linkedln first and guessed others probably did the same on occasion, I think an exception in this case ought to be made.

I'm not going to change it back, though. You probably know more about Wikipedia policy, etc. than I do so I'll let it be. I would like to know, however, whether or not there is an official policy considering redirects/phishing/etc in general or not, and if not, I'd like to hear your reasoning on why you believe that the unique factors I mentioned above do not warrant an exception to the tradition of redirecting misspelled words. Thanks! Ofus (talk) 11:03, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

The main reason is that I can't see a scenario where someone specifically types LinkedLN into wikipedia, gets confused by the redirect, and then takes that to mean that linkedLN.com is part of linkedin.com. I don't believe there is a specific policy on this, but if you want to get some wider community input on whether the redirect should be deleted or not, we do have a process called Redirects for discussion where you can nominate that the redirect be deleted. The outcome of that discussion can be used to help shape future policy on redirects that are similar to this. Gigs (talk) 15:15, 18 November 2009 (UTC)