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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, AuthorAuthor! Thanks for removing the broken link over at the Tony Serra biography article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

And some odds and ends: Cite your sources, Civility, Conflict resolution, How to edit a page, How to write a great article, Pages needing attention, Peer review, Policy Library, Verifiability, Village pump, and Wikiquette; also, you can sign your name on any page by typing four tildes: ~~~~. Best of luck, AuthorAuthor, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman (talk) 22:53, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. TheMindsEye (talk) 19:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes format

Hello AuthorAuthor. You are doing some wonderful work on Wikipedia! I do have one recommendation: check out the footnotes style guideline. The footnote formatting described on that page is very similar to what you are doing now but has a number of advantages. When you use <ref></ref> tags around your references (in conjunction with a <references/> tag at the bottom of the page) it gathers all the references in one section, superscripts the references numbers, and also helps readability in edit mode as the references get grayed out (if you are using a tool that adds syntax colors to text in edit mode). Thanks again for all the great writing and let me know if you have any questions. —Noah 14:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:FrankHawkins.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Image-FrankHawkins.jpg. The copy called Image:Image-FrankHawkins.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot (talk) 09:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes format

Hi. At the risk of intruding on your day: did you by chance see the Footnotes comment I made above? It would be really helpful if you could use the reference/footnotes format when you add URLs in the middle of the text. All you need to do is put <ref> at the beginning of the URL and </ref> at the end of the URL (or in-line citation). The only other bit you would need to do is add the text <references/> in the References section if it doesn't already exist. Sorry if I'm coming across as pushy but it really helps the users of Wikipedia if the articles all have the suggested in-line citation format. Please leave a note on this page if you want any help with this formatting. Thanks for listening and thanks for all the great work. —Noah 19:38, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Noah. I'll read up on reference/footnotes formatting for the next time. Thanks for the suggestion! AuthorAuthor (talk) 22:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for checking it out. Let me know if you want any help. Cheers, —Noah 07:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Russell Klika

Hello - thanks for the message. I nominated this article as part of a group of articles for deletion because they were all originally created for promotional purposes, by a single-purpose account, as a copy-and-paste from the exhibition's site. They all have or had the same language about this exhibition, and it was clear the intent was to advertise for the show, not to improve the encyclopedia.

In addition, although I appreciate the noble service of each photographer, I do not feel any of the articles meet the notability standards for people. Others may disagree, which is why we have discussions about deletion.

The number of sources or references isn't the measure of notability. Instead, I looked for sources about each photographer, and could find none other than photo credits, a few blogs (blogs are not verifiable sources) and information from previous exhibitions. He may be on the way to notability, but he's not there yet.

If you have more verifiable, reliable sources about Klika, you should add them and leave a comment at the deletion discussion noting it, so interested editors can take a second look and reconsider. At the very least, you should remove the names of his children and particularly the name of his former wife - Google never forgets and there are privacy concerns to consider.

Again, I'm thankful for his service and I like his work, but I do not feel he meets the notability standards. It's not personal, and if the consensus is to keep them, I'm okay with that too. If consensus is to delete (and I won't be the one to judge that), there's no rule against creating a new, fresh article sometime in the future if he does become notable. Thanks again for the message, and please let me know if you need more help or have questions. :-) - KrakatoaKatie 04:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)