User talk:Brother Francis

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Hello, Brother Francis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Wikipedia

Hello Brother Fancis. First of all thanks for starting to contribute to Wikipedia. In terms of sources, Wikipedia has an attribution policy, that states that everything in Wikipedia needs to have already been published in a reliable source. Reliable sources are things like books, journals, etc, but don't include self-published sources such as personal websites or blogs. So for the article you started you need to add references throughout using either the Hardvard referencing style or using the new <ref> tags. For more information about how to do this please see WP:CITE.

As to your second question, about disambiguation. Wikipedia has thousands of disambiguation pages and hundreds of thousands of links to disambiguation pages, but the guideline is that ideally there should be no links made to disambiguation pages, but that the link should be sent to the precise location. (See WP:DPL which states "Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed); instead links should go directly to the appropriate article." There are many editors who are tirelessly working on disambiguating links, see here. So, you should never link to the British article but that is a disambiguation page; if you don't think United Kingdom is appropriate, change it to the History of the UK or some other article, but don't leave it at British, because as noted above that is a disambiguation page. Regards, -- Jeff3000 14:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Hello! I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject England. We work on creating, expanding and making general changes to England related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Project Page!. Thank You.

[edit] Default category sorting

Hi. I noticed you added a category to The Lottie Project and I thought I could save you some work by letting you know that if an article has a default sort tag above the categories then you only need to add the category and the tag will automatically ensure it's listed alphabetically by the name specified in the default sort tag. So DEFAULTSORT:Lottie Project, The (typed in double curly brackets to make it a working tag) means all the categories will be sorted to that default unless specified otherwise. My explanation sounds confusing but if you go back to look at the article then you'll see what I mean. If you look out for default sort tags on articles (or even add them yourself where appropriate) then it'll save you extra typing. :-) Random Passer-by (talk) 22:34, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smile

James, La gloria è a dio has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
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[edit] Notability of Bernd Weikl

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Bernd Weikl, by Hu (talk · contribs), another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Bernd Weikl seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Bernd Weikl, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate Bernd Weikl itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 04:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

For the record, I noticed, by chance, that Bernd Weikl, was mentioned in about half a dozen wiki articles. A quick search on the internet turned up a number of web sites with biographies for Weikl, so I created a stub article saying, as I recall, "Bern Weikl (born whenever) is a baritone born wherever," and linked the other articles to it. However his notability was challenged and the article speedily deleted. I think he is probably notable (although at the lower end of the spectrum of notability) but the article would have needed further work to demonstrate that. Another time perhaps.

Brother Francis 07:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello from a member of the Opera Project. I'm sorry that I missed this speedily-deleted article, and will resurrect it when I have a moment. Weikl has an article in New Grove Dictionary of Opera and is undoubtedly an important contemporary singer (now nearing the end of his career). Best wishes. --GuillaumeTell 11:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Yo, Bro (couldn't resist that). The article has risen from the dead. It would be nice to know when he debuted at the Vienna Staatsoper. --GuillaumeTell 00:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Berkshire WikiProject invitation

Image:Berks arms.gif
 Hello, Brother Francis! I'd like to invite you to join the Berkshire WikiProject. It's a user-group dedicated to improving the overall quality of all Berkshire-related content. There is a discussion page for sharing ideas as well as developing and getting tips on improving articles. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of members.


If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We hope to be working with you in the future!

Seaserpent85 01:32, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Crucifixion (Stainer)

The Crucifixion (Stainer) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) -- Are you planning to create this article you linked to from Crucifixion (disambiguation)? TJRC (talk) 16:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay, it sounds notable. I put together a little stub on it: The Crucifixion (Stainer). Please have a look at it and if you think you can improve on it (and you probably can, having performed it), please do so. TJRC (talk) 18:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Holy cats, it was only up for two minutes before someone made its first edit. TJRC (talk) 18:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)