User talk:PatrickFlaherty/Archives/2009/January

Thanks and Best of Luck this 2009

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Thanks so much for your kindness.[1] I still have to learn a lot about using these tools amid my only about 45 days here. To be candid, I had only learned Word and Internet about April 2006 (in the Philippines kids under 4 years do have computer subjects, but only about 10% of Philippine lawyers and judges are computer literate). Even from my July 2007 to November 22, 2008 stint in Wikipedia English, I had a hard time comprehending the very complex (for me) Wiki tools - until now, I do not know how to re-direct and I lately learned how to archive talk pages, since no one in Wiki English had the kindness to teach me how to.

I need a lot more time to learn how to use these tools, since I have had no background in Information Technology. All I request from you and reviewers of my work is: be patient in reviewing my created articles amid tons of sources - I rate A+ the contents thereof, but I say my style is only B- or even C+ - (with our style guide (on dateline, grammar and spelling, "inverted pyramid" structure, tone, wikilinks, categories, headline... etc.) since I had only about 6 months stint as Judge from January 25, 1999 to July 20, 1999. I hated reviews of my drafted decisions since I did focus on contents and citations for every paragraph - claiming that I am the only Judge in the Philippines who backed up each paragraph of my decisions with jurisprudence and statutes, local and USA.

Thus, when I create a SYNTHESIS news article, I desire tons of sources without duplications however. Also, I spend about 2 hours browsing all Google and CNN etc news sites to look for news articles which are not only popular, notable, etc., but are so rare. This morning about 11 a.m. when I was watching CNN live here in Philippines, the one who received the Slumdog Millionaire award said - "from the heart" - I had repeated here, that I write news from my heart and this makes my works utterly different from hundreds of news articles on Google. I spend about 5 hours to have one creation to review status. So, after that I am under STRESS. Therefore, it would be burdensome for me to review other works, except if made by accredited reporters or administrators, as I will just put the review template and bingo, but I do not know if I will learn this "sight" thing. Best of Luck to you and your family/country. --Florentino Floro (talk) 06:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)