User talk:Chuck sample

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[edit] October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on User talk:Metros. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Apple Valley High School. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:55, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Most users do not delete comments from their talk pages, they just archive them after a while. It's up to Metros whether or not he wants to remove stuff from his talk page- you can't remove comments from his talk page, even if they're comments you made. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:50, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't know!

No problem; I assumed that it was inexperience and not malice. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Fisher Queen, question for you before I waste more of your time. For topics like Robot Chicken and Moral Orel, can I post up the stop-motion animators who worked on it, or will they be taken down.

If you're asking about creating new articles about the animators, the notability criteria will be a useful read for you. Basically, make sure that you have reliable sources- two or three articles that have been written about them in reasonably significant sources. As long as you have that, go for it: the My First Article page has some other useful advice for avoiding scary deletion discussions and maintenance tags when you're starting new articles. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:15, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I read up, still s bit green. I can't find out how to cite your references...where do you put them?

There's two parts. The reference in the article goes in between tags like this: <ref>reference here</ref>, and then at the bottom of the page, you add a section for the references, and put the tag {{reflist}} in that section. What I just did looks like this when I enable it: ^[1] If you want to be really good, there's a list of templates you can use for different kinds of sources- books, magazines, web sites, newspapers, etc. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again, you have been very helpful.

No problem; I like helping new users. Here's one more trick- you can sign your posts by using four tildes (that's ~~~~), or you can click the "sign your username" feature below the editing window if it's easier. Then you end up with a nifty signature a little like this: -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:47, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Fisher Queen, another question for you. It seems like it's pretty easy to write a jack-ass comment on any page...how do your editors respond so fast to make those changes, and how you just can't block people from doing it again?

In answer to the first question: check out the recent changes page. Assorted volunteers are always watching the latest changes to Wikipedia, and immediately reverting/ restoring/ deleting things as necessary. I'm one of the people who does it; I'm fond of patrolling recent contributions by newbies, personally. As for the second: we could. But in general, we issue warnings first, which stops many vandals after their first jackassed comment. If a user doesn't cut it out after a few warnings, then we block. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's a fairly typical example of a user who makes inappropriate edits and is warned, then blocked. By me. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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