User talk:Jloewen

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Hello, Jloewen! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! LittleOldMe (talk) 13:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Talk pages

This is your talk page for others to leave messages for you. You should leave (signed) messages on the talk pages of other users or on the talk pages of articles. Regards LittleOldMe (talk) 13:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anna, Illinois

Hi, I have revisited the reversion and I have decided to leave your edit intact. I must confess to a knee-jerk reaction to the statements and, since Wikipedia prides itself on not being censored, I have reinstated your changes. Regards LittleOldMe (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

My reaction was to the statement "Most of the African Americans in Anna are residents of the Illinois State Mental Hospital." which I initially read as a racial slur. You must admit that this is not an easy concept to digest, that a mental hospital's population, which I assume is relatively small, exceeds the population of ordinary residents. LittleOldMe (talk) 10:22, 28 March 2008 (UTC)