User talk:Magic5ball

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, newcomer!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

• First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
• When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
• Remember to use a neutral point of view!
• If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
• Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Utilities
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:Village pump
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Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

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Best of luck, and have fun!

ClockworkTroll 07:03, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Final Fantasy

Hi! Your contributions are welcome, but are a bit too short for inclusion. Please add a bit more info to your future articles. Thanks and have fun! - Lucky 6.9 05:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to be helpful. Do you feel the power of your l33t mod skills? Did you even bother to _ask_ about my intentions of filling them in, quite possibly in the near future? You point to no quality examples of what you think are articles of appropriate length. You cite no guidelines about what should, or should not be here. You act virtually as an oracle, exposing no hint about your judgement process, nor what you expect me to do to satisfy it.

Your help would be much more helpful if it contained, well, help.

As it stands, I have finished writing about summons, but they will be posted elsewhere instead, lest the stars not align for a favourable reading. I would have prefered to have fleshed out the stubs now, instead of responding to this, but alas, you have made your choice, as have I.

Good day, sir. Magic5ball 05:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Let's not reduce ourselves to personal attacks. If you look at the welcome notice that was left prior to my note, you'll see that it is a wealth of information as to how to create good, first articles. Click on any of the links to see what I mean. I didn't feel that it was necessary to state anything beyond what I did since the answers are here on the page. As for my "acting as an oracle," I'm doing no such thing beyond following administrative procedure. Sorry if that sounds grandiose, but I assure you, it isn't. If I wasn't clear, I apologize for the misunderstanding and hope to clear it up. Please don't let this minor clash scare you off. - Lucky 6.9 21:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Don't kid yourself. If following the scary stuff in RfA for a couple years didn't scare me off, your actions here certainly won't.

Regarding your comments: I can't read your mind, but I won't hold that against you. I can only go so far in trying to figure out what you mean (or intended to mean) by what you actually say. In this case, you gave me very little to work with.

Consider how many potential contributors leave _before_ you get a chance to explain your actions and concise messages to them. Magic5ball 05:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)