User talk:Tiorted
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[edit] Resistance (Burning Spear album)
Thanks for writing this article. Unfortunately it doesn't conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new articles. However, please do not be disheartened by what may happen to your first article, if indeed it is deleted. Please continue to edit Wikipedia and add articles which conform with the inclusion criteria. For more help, see Help:Contents and to find out what will probably be deleted, see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks, and if you have any questions, please ask them on my user talk page. To do this, click on my name (just after this sentence) and click Discussion at the top and then the (+) button at the top. Martinp23 14:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Warning
PLease stop creating empty articles, or article which contain only an infobox. This is considered vandalism and you may be banned if you continue. Martinp23 14:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- OK, but there are a load of users, like myself, who look through all of the new wikipedia pages, and have to mark the empty ones for deletion. Some of the article you've started may be deleted, but if they are, then you can (if you put enough information into them ) recreate them. To avoid New Pages patrollers marking your new articles for deletion, can I recommend that you write each article first in sometihng like notepad, complete with wikimarkup, and then copy and paste into new articles as you create them. This makes it a lot easier if you are creating a large number of articles at once. Martinp23 15:01, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Another wikipedia user has brought it to my attention that "vandalism" was quite a harsh word to use above. I agree, so I apologise to you now for my choice of words at the time. I had mistaken your creation of the placeholders as simple creation of empty pages - an opinion which, in hindsight amd armed with extra knowledge, was obiously incorrect. Sorry -- Martinp23 15:43, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] temp pages
Listen, its no good starting these nearly empty articles. I realise you want to work on them, so in consideration I'll move them to subpages that you can work on to your heart's content, such as: User:Tiorted/(A)live In Concert 97 Once you've made them into decent articles, you can move them back into the main article space. Until then, please don't create more of these. --woggly 15:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll leave off for now. But in future, please try using a sandbox or temp page for this kind of thing. --woggly 15:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- I can delete it for you, if you like... --woggly 19:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Placeholder articles
G'day Tiorted,
thanks for your message. I appreciate what you're trying to do here (well, now that you've told me, I do ;-)). Unfortunately, on Wikipedia we've had a lot of problems with people creating useless, empty "placeholder" articles and never getting back to them, so we tend to get a bit worried when one user creates a swathe of them at once. Please consider creating articles one at a time, filling in the details for one, then putting together the framework for the next one, rather than creating frameworks en masse. Happy editing! fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 15:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)