User talk:Fortunia

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Hello Fortunia! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I think its very important for you to browse through some of the links below so as to become familiar with how Wikipedia works. If you need any help you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and another Wikipedian will show up shortly. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you're already loving Wikipedia and plan on becoming a Wikipedian you might consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor, just paste {{Adoptme}} into your userpage and you will gladly be adopted! You might also consider joining a WikiProject so as to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Just H 05:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Colorado!

Welcome, Fortunia to WikiProject Colorado! We hope you can contribute to our ongoing effort to create, expand, organize, and improve Colorado-related articles to a feature-quality standard. Some useful links: WikiProject Colorado: Members, infoboxes, templates, etc. What you can do: Add {{Project Colorado}} to talk pages of all Colorado-related articles. De-stub Colorado stubs.

[edit] re: Adoption

Hi Fortunia,

I see you're looking to be adopted. I've been around Wikipedia for a while and I can probably answer most questions you might have. I'd be happy to adopt you until you feel you know your way around. Let me know if you'd like my help or if you'd rather wait for a different adopter.

Also, if you have been waiting a long time and feel like you can go it alone you could remove the 'adoption box' from your page. Thanks!

--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 08:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

Hi there, Actually I will change the box to show that you are now adopted by me. I am busy in real life right now but later today I will write you a message about adoption and such. I am in GMT-8 (US West coast), so it will be around 5pm my time. Looking at your user page I already have some pages in mind that you could help with and that might interest you. I am not going to be giving assignments, so don't worry, just that I know that learning is more fun when you are interested in the subject! Cheers!--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 18:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the nest

Hi Fortunia!

Welcome to Adopt-a-User and the killing sparrows nest! I did a review of your edit history, as I do for all my new adoptees and so I have some comments about that.

First of all thanks for all your contributions to WP. Although you haven't made alot of edits, the ones you have made have been useful and have helped to improve the Encyclopedia. I especially was glad to see the comments you made on the offensive language used in the Native American article (squaws, Ugh!), thanks for helping get rid of that.

I also noticed that you are very civil on talk pages. If I have a major complaint about WP it is that there is too much gratuitous profanity and rudeness here. I'm not a prude but that kind of language and comment drives people away.

You also are near 100% for adding an edit summary. Good job!

Since you are interested in Native American articles and have the ability to write a clear, grammatically correct sentence (which makes me wonder if you went to a private school?), you might want to take a look at the articles started by -)-(-Haggawaga (|-|) Oegawagga-)-(-. You can go to his user page, click on 'History', and then click on 'contribs' next to his user name, and see the articles he has worked on. He is not a native speaker of English and I don't know about the quality of the research he has done on the articles (various Sioux chiefs), so the articles need serious copyediting at least.

Another good place to hang out is WP:CLEANUP where all the articles that get cleanup tags are listed by month. There is always a big backlog there and you can pick from the list any that interest you.

None of this is to be taken as an assignment! You are free to do (or not do) whatever you like here and ask me any questions you might have. I have created a dedicated talk page for us here so as to keep our conversations uncluttered. You should add it to your watchlist. If you like you can go there and tell me a little about yourself. I will post a copy of this message there also.

So there we are. I think you are going to be a great addition to the project and I will be very happy to help you along.--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 01:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibreak notice

Hi there Fortunia,

I will be on break for a week while travelling to Saint Paul Island, Alaska. I hope all is going well! If you need help while I am offwiki please go to the WP:ADOPT talk page. Cheers!--killing sparrows ^(chirp!) 18:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)