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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Sandom! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  17:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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Re: Bloap, it was deleted because the term is currently non-notable. For more about what qualifies as notable on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Notability. Thanks. --Fang Aili talk 16:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

You said: Under your definition of "Notable", the terms Internet or Blog would not have been permitted within Wikipedia until they became mainstream. That's exactly right. The thing to keep in mind here is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and therefore all content must be notable (according to the guidelines linked above). "Blog" wasn't notable until it became mainstream. I encourage you to resubmit Bloap once it reaches that level of use, or if you can cite sources showing the term is in widespread use. If we created articles about every term that someone made up, Wikipedia would be a bunch of nonsense articles. I'm not saying that Bloap is nonsense, but that there must be standards. --Fang Aili talk 17:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J._G._Sandom

I've noticed that your username is Sandom and that you are editing an article about yourself. That poses a huge problem as the Wikipedia:Autobiography guidelines strongly urge you not to write about yourself in Wikipedia as it poses significant conflict of interest and neutral point of view problems. Please be VERY careful about our neutral point of view and vanity policies as linked at the top of this page as breaching them will result in your autobiography being nominated for deletion. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  17:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Sources

After viewing a "Requires Citation" note on the entry for my name (following an entry disagreement with Fang!), I tried to insert the proper citations but was unable to operate the footnote function properly. Can you help? I can send you the edited page with the citations if you'd like.Sandom 17:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)J.G. Sandom

Follow the steps at Wikipedia:Cite_sources. I've done so for you already. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  18:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Article

Netsnipe:

I didn't write this article. But once it was posted, I thought I would update it. And since I saw a note to add citations, I thought I'd try and help out. Was this wrong?

J. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sandom (talk • contribs) .

Not inherently. But some editors (as I did) would have automatically assumed that 68.38.12.54 (the anonymous person who started the article) and User:Sandom were one and the same. Anoymous accounts don't have much credibility around here. But since you've provided third-party sources to establish your notability, then the article is fine to stay. Just don't be tempted into turning the article into your own soapbox to promote yourself and you'll hopefully stay on the right side of WP:AUTO and WP:VAIN. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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