User talk:Michael Hackney
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[edit] ==Categories==
Add the code [[Category:Example]] (where example is the name of the category) to the bottom of the article you want to add to the category. If you want to add Mr. Example to this category, you need to make sure he's indexed under E instead of M. This is done by writing: [[Category:Example|Example, Mr.]]. Always make sure the category you are using exists and whether I similar category doesn't already exist. More info can be found on Wikipedia:Categorization. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:42, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
[edit] NASCAR WikiProject
Hello. I'm starting a WikiProject NASCAR and I thought you might be interested in helping (your NASCAR Realignment article is very good, btw). There's a lot of good information about NASCAR in WikiPedia, but it isn't very well organized and theres still a lot missing (driver bios, team info, etc.). If you can help, stop on by! Recury 18:58, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
