User talk:Mapmark
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[edit] Welcome!
Thank you for your contributions, you seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! If you need help on how to title new articles see the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. For general questions goto Wikipedia:Help or the FAQ, if you can't find your answer there check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. If you have any more questions after that, feel free to ask me directly on my user talk page.
[edit] Additional tips
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[edit] Be Bold!!
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 00:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greater Manchester
Hi! I've noticed your excellent work you have been putting in on Wikipedia, particularly for those articles related to the Greater Manchester area.
I also put in simillar kind of work for this area and am most pleased with your contributions. You may wish to add (via copy and paste) the following to your user page (found at User:Mapmark)...
{{User Greater Manchester}}
It enables other users from this area to share knowledge and form a network specifically for the Greater Manchester area.
Hope that helps, keep up the good work. Jhamez84 15:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks Jhamez
Thats very kind of you notice my contribs and to send me a message. I dont seem to have a proper user page yet but when I get round to building one I will be proud to add the paste you suggest on Greater Manchester. I mostly use wikipedia late at night after I've done my other work and like many people get caught up in pages I'm interested in and happen to have a bit of knowledge about. I just hope that my contribs are useful and I try and stick to the guidelines but I dont really consider myself an expert so I'm happy to be re-edited! Very pleasing to see a lot of what I've put up has stayed there so I guess I must be doing something right! Also when I get a proper user page I can probably send a neater message back to you Jhamez, as opposed to pasting here where I'm not sure you will ever see it! But once again many thanks for your encouragment and all the best with you posts too. :-) Mark —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mapmark (talk • contribs) 13:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC).
- Not a problem! Indeed it is most encouraging seeing a new(ish) user contributing with prudence, expertise, and a level head (which is in my experience a rarity!).
- Editing level and sophistication will improve with time (indeed I am still by no means an expert, but perhaps a novice), via looking at examples of Wikipedia's best work, and through consulting users for advice and input.
- Given your contributions, I want to highlight some important and established practices found on Wikipedia, and answer some of your questions...
- You can access your own user page by clicking here - it's yours to edit as and when you please - but does like all pages, ultimately belong to Wikipedia and is best not used to provoke other users.
- In talk/discussion pages, don't forget to sign your comments. You do this by typing "~~~~" (4 x ~). It just lets users know who wrote what and when, and is considered good manners.
- Another point for ensuring that other users know what and how you are editting, when contributing to an article, there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
- It is highly recommended that users fill in the edit summary field with a breif statement of how and what they are contributing, as it makes it easier for you and your fellow contributors to understand what has changed, and is helpful when going through the history of the page.
- Finally, and somewhat sadly, vandalism is rife on Wikipedia, and should you take an interest in Greater Manchester and other divisions of England's lands like myself, there is a policy on how they should be treated. I've added a summery of a major policy of Wikipedia below for ease, outlining a ruling on how modern geography should be presented (naturally I am in agreement with this).
 This policy in a nutshell: |
| All Wikipedia articles about an existing British settlement or locality should use the current, administrative, county (e.g. Greater Manchester). Metropolitan counties, and other such modern counties, should be treated as counties and as a primary geographic reference frame. We should not take the minority position that the historic counties still exist with the former boundaries. |
- Many thanks for the contact Mapmark. I hope a few of those points will aid you in your forthcoming additions on Wikipedia, and steer you away from some of the mistakes I made initially. If ever you would like advise or an answer to how to perform more technical edits, do please get in touch! Regards, Jhamez84 23:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
