User talk:Joshua.thomas.bird

Thanks for the tips, guys, I kind of have a concentrating problem so I definitely skip around a lot and forget things. Ill try to keep the summaries in mind, but I'm having a hard time consolidating some of the edits I'm making. I think I'll get the hang of it sooner rather than later. joshua.thomas.bird 10:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)



Hello Joshua.thomas.bird, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. All users are expected to abide by our Privacy policy, Civility policy, and the Terms of Use while at Wikiversity.

To get started, you may


 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random project.
 * Browse Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.
 * Explore Wikiversity with the links to your left.


 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.
 * Follow Wikiversity on twitter (http://twitter.com/Wikiversity) and identi.ca (http://identi.ca/group/wikiversity).

You don't need to be an educator to edit. You only need to be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage. See you around Wikiversity! --Abd 12:37, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Capitalization of page names
The general convention here is that page names aren't capitalized after the first letter. There are exceptions when a page name is a proper name, and we haven't been completely consistent. Please don't keep moving pages just for this, unless you establish consensus by discussion. Thanks. --Abd 01:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Great stuff on computers, Joshua - thankyou. Can I also suggest as per Abd that the page name capitalisation convention for WV is lower case - MoS and Naming conventions? Not a big deal, but it is preferred. To rename, pages can be moved and a redirect can be left to the new page name. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Seems to me that the preference is that School names are capitalized, i.e, your interest, Joshua, is the School of Computer Science, i.e., School:Computer Science. Certain academic conventions would have the name of a journal be capitalized, but individual articles are in sentence case. I've moved a couple of pages. If you want to help with that, you are welcome, but I'll do it, and I can delete the redirects formed. I'm taking care to change links, and it seems to me I noticed you did change one yourself. Thanks. (I found it from "What links here," then I opened the page and searched for it, and it wasn't there. I figured out what had happened. Thanks for your work, looks good. --Abd 20:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Making lots of edits
Thanks for working so hard to improve resources. However, there are two issues I need to mention. The first is that you seem to be using many edits, instead of using Preview and making reasonably sure you are done before hitting Save. The second is that you are not using edit summaries. I wouldn't mention it except for the volume of edits. Both issues make more work for those who review Recent Changes or who want to study the history of a page. So, there is a template about the edit summaries, I'm substituting here. Thanks. --Abd 21:16, 10 August 2011 (UTC)