User talk:ThomasHartman

Your question

I am new to this. I just made a few minor suggestions concerning readability and grammar. I thought my suggestions would go to a gatekeeper who would make revisions to the actual text. Imagine my supprise to see my changes put immediately into effect! Fortunately, they were small changes--a word deleted, a sentence moved. I have more suggestions, but they are larger and more significant. How do I submit these for COMMENT AND CONSIDERATION before anything drastic is done?

Thomas, that's an excellent question. As you noticed, changes to a page (any page) are effective immediately. So, there are two ways to approach some changes you want to make:

Add a new section on the talk page (for example, Talk:Elijah (prophet)) and ask for comments. This should pretty quickly indicate whether there is consensus support for your changes -- a good idea, particularly on a page like Elijah (prophet), where a number of different traditions intersect.
Be bold and make your changes anyway. But please don't be offended if someone turns right around and edits them -- that's just the way things work. The best you can do is try to maintain a neutral point of view in your edits and know that things will eventually work out.

--JFreeman ^(talk) 04:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Elijah

Are you sure that it was a fast and not a feast? I just saw your recent edit. Just wondering. Wrad 01:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, just seemed weird. I see you're monitoring Sherlock Holmes. I hear he's a hard one to catch seeing as how he's usually on the other end of the search. Wrad 02:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just made a bunch of changes to the Elijah page and was wondering if you could look over it and see what you think. Could you do that? Wrad 23:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have been going to town on Elijah. He's an interesting and important figure, and I was sad to see his page in such disarray when I first stumbled onto it. Thanks for all that work (and for figuring out how the <ref></ref> codes work). Jonathan Tweet 01:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to tell you that it is usually considered bad form to type in all caps. I'm not offended at all, but just wanted to let you know. Some people see it as yelling, even if it's not intended that way. See Wikipedia:Wikiquette for more info. I like your changes, by the way. Wrad 02:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tables

Hi. Thanks for your message. See Help:Table for instructions on how to create one. Alternatively, just find an article that contains one, click on 'Edit', copy/paste the mark-up to your article and change the cell contents. You should find it relatively straightforward. (Open Government (Yes Minister) has a simple two-column table that lists the episode cast, if that's any help.) :-) Chris 42 11:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of detectives, constables, and agents in Sherlock Holmes

Hi. I've just done a couple of brief copy edits to the opening myself, but the short stories and novels need to be formatted according to the Wiki Manual of style. This means quotes for short stories (e.g., "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box") and italics for the four novels (e.g., A Study in Scarlet). Also, each story/novel needs to be Wikilinked, preferably only the first time it appears in each section so as not to overlink. I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not you include the full titles of the short stories ("The Adventure of..."). Otherwise it's fine. :-) Chris 42 21:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review for Elijah

I'm about to put Elijah up for peer review on its way to GA status. I just want you to know so that you can help with the reviewers' suggestions. Wrad 22:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So what do you think about the above? The article is really getting there, and a review would work wonders. Wrad 21:21, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's done. You an see editors' suggestions at Wikipedia:Peer review/Elijah. Wrad 23:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]