User talk:Flickts
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Welcome!
Hello, Flickts, 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:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --Rkitko (talk) 13:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Plants!
Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Plants! Our scope includes any and all taxa of plants, botanists, and botany topics. We're glad to have you working with us on our project!
A few features that you might find helpful:
- Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
- We discuss our project frequently at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. You can watchlist it to keep up with the conversations.
Here are some easy ways you can contribute:
- Images: There are articles that need images. You can search Wikimedia Commons for images. When you find one, add it to the Wikipedia article in the taxobox and remove the "needs-photo=yes" parameter from the project banner on the talk page of the article. You could also help identify plant photos on Commons.
- Taxobox: We also have articles that need taxoboxes. See the taxobox usage guide for information on how to add a taxobox. When complete, don't forget to remove the "needs-taxobox=yes" parameter from the talk page banner.
- Stubs: Consider expanding one of our stubs or create one of our requested articles.
- Assessment: You could also help assess our unassessed articles.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page or the project at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Rkitko (talk) 13:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bizarre articles
Hi Flickts. Articles such as Spanish Vocab and Shakespeare 101 are non-encyclopedic and we don't want them. Thanks for your efforts though! There's a welcome message at the top of this page with links you might like to read about the type of articles we need in our encyclopedia. Thanks. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:12, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcom to Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools
I would like to welcome you to the group. we can always use more active participants and you seem to be enthusiastic. I would, however, like to ask you to please review the assessment guidelines before you assess any more articles. Some of your assessments have been unwarrantedly high and have been reverted to their previous state. Please let me know if you have any questions concerning our assessment process and happy editing! Adam McCormick 20:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5
 Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007 |
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Congratulations to our 225 new members |
The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page
Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up.
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[edit] List of Pink Floyd bootlegs
A tag has been placed on List of Pink Floyd bootlegs, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Arx Fortis (talk) 15:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Empty pages: solutions
It's much better to create an article with enough content already in place (at least enough material to be a stub). You can also create a subpage (see WP:SUBPAGE) and work on the article there until you are ready to 'go live', at which time you move the article to the mainspace. By the way, Please make sure the article cites to reliable sources which verify its content, or it will be deleted in any case. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pink Floyd bootleg page
- In reply to your post on my talk page, the bootleg article was deleted primarily for one reason: The article contained little to no content and was marked for deletion under the Criteria for Speedy Deletion - No Content (WP:CSD#A3). When building articles, a page should start with enough content to merit its inclusion. Things like notability (WP:N) and citation (WP:CITE) of reliable, verifiable, third-party sources (WP:RS, WP:V) should be included.
- However, the nature of the page is "bootlegs." Bootlegs are, inherently, illegal. Thus, I'm not sure if the article would meet the notability guidelines unless there was a reason for it's notability besides the fact that it's a bootleg. That, however, would be for someone else to comment on as I am not very well versed in Wikipedia's legal issues. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 17:03, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Old Man and the Sea/Context
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Old Man and the Sea/Context, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldman/context.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 20:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
