User talk:GuyDoe
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
Hello, GuyDoe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
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 need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! DoomsDay349 21:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
Hey. I'm going to clean up your userpage a little bit, just grammar and whatnot, some styling tweaks. For some tips, try Wikipedia:Userpage and WP:UB. DoomsDay349 22:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE:Edited Articles
OK; that's good. A couple of tips, firstly you should remember to use proper grammar (capitalize letters, periods in correct places, etc., etc.,) as it makes reading easier for everyone. Next, always sign your comments, I saw that you corrected that, good. Finally, I strongly suggest you read the tutorial for advice on Wikimarkup and some other good stuff that'll help when you write a new article. Good luck! DoomsDay349 23:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed. By the way, don't put a space before your messages, as it produces it in an annoying gray box. Just start from the beginning, and when you add a new message to the same discussion, put a colon (:) there to indent. Normal indenting doesn't work. DoomsDay349 23:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE:How do I do that?
OK; lots of questions. The template box is {{Template:Usercomment}}. Add that with the "{"s at the top of your talk page to get it to come up. As to how do you title things, I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean what should the words in a title be, that's dependent on what is in the article. If you're talking about creating titles, it goes like this: place two equal signs (=) followed by the text followed by two equals for headline text. Like this: ==Text==. For subsections, do ===Subtitle Text===. For further subsections, just keep adding an equal sign. Article is spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E. About M16s, what do you mean? Not sure exactly what you're talking about. And yes, your userpage is funny :). DoomsDay349 00:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I think you mean the history page. No, no one really edits the history page, but when you edit anything else, it shows up in the history with your name next to it. So, anything and everything you do will be logged. BEWARE! Also, Esperanza is a group of people who try to spread civility and friendliness throughout Wikipedia; I'm very active in it, and there is currently a huge reform movement that I'm working with some people on. You have to have 150 edits to join though :( sorry but when you do feel free to come by and sign up. That requirement might change, though, so if it does I'll let you know. Feel free to read up on Esperanza at the main Esperanza page. DoomsDay349 01:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:More questions
Oi, these questions never stop! :) OK, let's see...the barnstar awards are awards I've gotten from other users to recognize my contributions to Wikipedia. Esperanza is a group that promotes civility through both example and going out of their way to make new users feel welcome, as well as by being kind to fellow users. Your quote: "you go around and edit peoples stuff. What does that mean? Sockpuppets are multiple accounts controlled by one user; sometimes they are allowed, but many times they are way of evading a ban from editing. If you delete content, it's still an edit to delete it, so yes. Continually editing your userpage, as long as it has a purpose, is totally fine, and counts towards your edit count. If you want to see your editcount, go here. Incidentally, not all your edits will show up on the bottom menus; only articles you've edited a lot will come up. DoomsDay349 03:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE:Questions
OK; let's see. Firstly, pictures; if you want to add an existing image, it's as simple as this. Place [[Image:Example]], replacing example with the name of the image you want to use. There are certain images that are in the public domain, meaning you can use them whereever you want, however some are "fair use", which have special restrictions. These are copyrighted images you can only use in very specific articles. So, then, say you wanted to put an image of a pie onto a page. You would type [[Image:Image:Cherry pie.jpg|caption goes here]] on the page, wherein you could also put the "|" sign, without the "s, and put in a caption on the image. It would produce the following image.
To upload a new image, I really don't do that at all, but you can ask a friend of mine, User:ReyBrujo, who is a very good person and is nice to new users. Mention my name and I'm sure he'll get back to you. DoomsDay349 02:42, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Note you might also want to do this: When adding an image, you can align it or make it small, by putting either |left or |right after the main image, and then also |thumb will shrink it. These can follow each other, so something like Image|left|thumb|caption is possible. DoomsDay349 02:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Hi!
Hello there, and welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry for the delay, but apparently I buried your talk without knowing. Any question you may have, feel free to contact me at my talk page. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 17:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
