User talk:Joelincoln

Welcome!

Hello Joelincoln, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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 have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! EdwinHJ | Talk 16:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, you gotta learn the ropes a bit, Joe

In response to your message on my Talk page-- yes, it's incorrect to sign actual encyclopedia articles. You're supposed to sign all comments in Discussion pages like this, but actual encyclopedia material is to be considered written by our huge and shifting "staff", without attribution for any one person. If you took the bulk of the text from a source that's ok with its inclusion in Wikipedia, even a published source authored by you, you need to cite that source in a References section in the article, not simply sign your name to the article. HTH. JDG 19:26, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

LSOC site

Hi, Joe. Officially there is no actual policy as far as I know. Until now such cases have been rare and decided on a individual basis, case by case. I posted the question on the official discussion page regarding the wiki policy concerning external links (Here's the link you can read my post on the discussion page and look over the policy yourself if you wish => Wikipedia:External links). I understand you concern about limitations being put on a reader's ability to further reseach an article's topic. I suggest we leave the link out for now until I hear back from other editors on the discussion pages, If most responses I'll put the link back in. I myself think it makes sense to have a link to the LSOC in the External links section of the LS article. Thank you for contributing. Regards, Signature ^brendel 05:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch for your help. BTW, it's "LLSOC" not "LSOC".

Yes, there were a couple of responses in the Wiki policy discussion and the discussion on the Auto Project page. While there is still disagreement, the follwoing came of the discussion: the site features enough free content to be allowed, but much of this free content is in the form of a forum. Links to forums are discouraged on wikipedia as they are not exclusively written by experts and may contain extensive POV writing. I put the link back in under the argument of it featuring considerable free content. Thanks for contributing. Regards, Signature ^brendel 16:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, unfortunately there is little in the way of controling the edits of other users. Just about the only thing one can do in this case is to contact Pingmaster, the user who deleted the link and leave a message on his discussion page. The problem here is that there is no real consensus and no clear rule on whether or not a link to an organization such as the LLSOC should be permitted. Some think it should, some think it shouldn't. In these cases, one can only start a dialog with the user who deleted the link. (That's the catch in an organization such as Wikipedia ;-)) I put the link back in for now. If you have any further questions let me know. Regards, Signature ^brendel 18:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whippany

Alansohn, I hope I'm putting this question in the right place... I see you've added content to the Whippany page. Although the content is correct, shouldn't we rely on the Hanover Twp page to hold this data and use the Whippany (and Cedar Knolls) pages to point to the Hanover page? This is otherwise redundant. - joelincoln 7/28/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelincoln (talk • contribs) 18:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're referring to a school entry I added. I put it in the Whippany, New Jersey article, because the school lists itself as being in Whippany. I have also added notables who have identified themselves as being from Whippany. I understand your issue, but I think it gives a bit of character to an article that is otherwise empty of it. Alansohn (talk) 19:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Hanover-Twp-morris-nj.GIF listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Hanover-Twp-morris-nj.GIF, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 11:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]