User talk:Getterstraight
Welcome
Hello, Getterstraight, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! CWC(talk) 16:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Civility
This is in response to your post at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of those who are "far left" according to Bill O'Reilly. Please consider reading both WP:Civility and WP:Wikiquette and keeping them in mind when posting messages. Debate is healthy, but SCREAMING BOLD LETTERS are not particularly nice and can come across as quite rude. Thank you. --NMChico24 02:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Discussion page protocol
When replying to people's comments on talk pages, it is best to put your comment after theirs, not in the middle, even if you need to sprinkle pointers like "Re Jones' review of Smith's book:" throughout your comment. In extreme cases, I suggest adding "(1)", "(2}", etc to the previous comment and noting that you have done so. The general rule is to not make any significant changes to other peoples' comments unless "refactoring". (Check my talk page to see that I learned this only recently myself.) BTW, I've left 2 comments on Talk:Power Line you may want to respond to. Cheers, CWC(talk) 12:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Misquoted?
Hi. Thanks for you recent edits to John H. Hinderaker. I tend to be too wordy, as you've probably noticed :). However, I was puzzled by your edit summary saying that "[t]he introduction to Hinderakers apology ... was misquoted". The words "inexpressibly vulgar and vile" appear at the end of the 2nd para of http://powerlineblog.com/archives/009632.php. Maybe you missed them (minor slip-ups happen to all of us), or am I missing something here? The latter is not at all unlikely! Cheers, CWC(talk) 04:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)