From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hello Guybrush and welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like it here, and stick around.
Here are some tips to help you get started:
- To sign your posts (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).
- Try the Tutorial, and feel free to experiment in the test area.
- If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk
- Follow the Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset
- Eventually, you might want to read the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines.
- Remember Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!
Good luck!
[edit] Thanks!
Haven't had a chance to fully familiarise myself with all the tags yet; just using basic Wiki stuff. Thanks for the welcome, and hopefully you'll see me around a lot. Guybrush 01:30, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Lawrence Miles
There is a reply for you at User talk:Paul A#Thanks for the edit!.
[edit] "Doctor who?" John Bowman
Are you sure that he calls himself that? I know Chang Lee signed John Smith on the Seventh Doctor's medical history sheet, but I can't remember when the Eighth Doctor calls himself Bowman. -khaosworks 03:35, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Yes; either he or Grace introduces him as such at the party for the unveiling of the Berylium clock. I'm pretty sure it was him... Guybrush 04:44, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Hellboy and the Cthulhu Mythos
Hello. I just took a look at the References to the Cthulhu Mythos article and noticed something. Don't you think the description about Hellboy which you added there doesn't really belong to the article? It is valid, but it talks about the premise of Hellboy's stories as a whole, yet it gets distant of the article's scope, which is the Cthulhu Mythos. This doesn't really happen with the other entries. I guess regarding Hellboy, further info about it can be found on its article.
I am familiar with some of the comics, and I've read a story where Lovecraft is indeed mentioned, so it's indeed true, but I think that entry should have more about "Hellboy and the Mythos" and less about just "Hellboy". I was actually thinking about adding that entry to the article, but you beat me to it. =P
Carry on.--Kaonashi 03:39, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out; I thought it might be justified explaining his origins, but on a second reading you're right, it does deviate from the purpose quite a bit. I'll cut it down. Guybrush 03:52, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
It looks better now. Thanks for understanding. =] --Kaonashi 04:20, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- No problem. I like to think I don't often go too far, but it's nice to know people will reign me in if I do. ;) Guybrush 04:02, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] The Great Mouse Detective
We would appreciate your insights into the topic currently being discussed at Talk:The Great Mouse Detective. --Paul A 07:17, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Remember to mark your edits as minor when, but only when, they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one, or vice versa, is condsidered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'.
BTW, have you checked out Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board or Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne yet? :) pfctdayelise 13:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up; I've been marking most things I've done as minor, and it seems many of them aren't! I have checked out the Melbourne project, though not found anything I can contribute much to yet; the noticeboard is a new one, I'll check it out. -- Guybrush 14:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 7.30 Report
Please justify your removal of the old logo rather than just deciding to remove it. Evolver of Borg 21:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for pulling me up on that; I've outlined my reasons on Talk:The 7.30 Report for discussion before I remove it again. Let me know what you think. -- Guybrush 10:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Page Redesign
I, Mollsmolyneux, have redesigned the List of incomplete Doctor Who serials page. To view it please Click Here. Please leave any comments you have about the page on My Talk Page and tell me if you think I should put the page on. -- Mollsmolyneux 12:51, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)
I see that you are listed as a participant in the WikiProject Melbourne. If you are a Melbourne resident I would appreciate your views on the suggested Meetup in March . Please give some indication of your interest, or otherwise, in the idea. Even a simple "No thanks" with your user name would be welcome and assist in assessing the level of support for a meetup. Thank you.. Cuddy Wifter 06:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Red Dwarf
Barrington it is also an obscure reference to Red Dwarf
Obscure that might be a bit of a understatement. Whispering 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:AClimateAffair.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:AClimateAffair.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 19:32, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated Dick Smith_Foods, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Dick Smith_Foods satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dick Smith_Foods and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Dick Smith_Foods during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. → AA (talk • contribs) — 11:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Meatbee, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears 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.
If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Deranged bulbasaur 01:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Crowded House
 |
Hi! I've seen you editing Crowded House related articles, and would like to invite you to join WikiProject Crowded House, an effort by Wikipedians to improve the band's coverage on the encyclopedia. Please consider signing up here. |
--lincalinca 09:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] War of 1812
The additon of a popular culture section is discouraged at this time to my understanding, the inclusion of a band site is also questionable. --Tirronan (talk) 02:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Theatre March 2008 Newsletter
| The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter |
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 1 - March, 2008
|
|
Hello and welcome to this, the first ever edition of the WikiProject Theatre Newsletter! If you haven't been over to the WikiProject page lately then you're missing out - the whole thing has undergone a complete makeover - see below for more info!
On top of this, we have brand spanking new templates (such as this one) and a completely revamped Collaboration of the Month - again, see below for more info on all of this.
Finally, a warning - the new-look WikiProject is still having the finishing touches put on it. If you find something that doesn't work, you don't agree with or is just plain missing, please don't hesitate to let us know on the WikiProject's talk page. We'll try our very best to fix ASAP!
- New Look
As mentioned above, the WikiProject has recently undergone a spring-clean and we're dead excited about it! If you don't mind - we'd like to take this opportunity to explain some of the features and generally show off about it a little.
- Colour scheme Those clashing colours have gone! All pages on the WikiProject now use two consistent shades of blue as part of the new streamlined interface (Those techies amongst us may wish to know that the precise names of the colours we use are: "lightsteelblue" for headings and "#c0e0e0" for backgrounds).
- Navigation Menu Every page on the WikiProject now has the official WikiProject navigation menu so you can easily flick between pages and get back to the main project page. Say goodbye to clicking the back button several times!
- To Do list/Open Tasks If you're stuck on what to do to help us then a list of the most important tasks is now available on the main page - no more excuses! At the moment, the list is looking a little short so if you have found something that you think ought to be added, then feel free to edit the list and let us know. Please refrain from linking to a specific article that generally needs an overall update. Single articles like this should be nominated for a future Collaboration of The Month - see below.
- Article Structure This is a first for the WikiProject and is still under constuction. What is the Article Structure page? Well, it's basically a rough guideline of sections to include when creating theatre-related articles - in particular, plays. As the scope of this WikiProject is so large, some sections of the Article Structure won't apply to all articles and other sections which will apply to a small cross-section of our article base have not been included in this Article Structure page. If you feel we have missed out something crucial which needs adding to most or all theatre-related articles then feel free to discuss it on either the Article Structure talk page or the main WikiProject talk page
- Templates
All of the project's templates are now arranged in one handy page. Whilst we were going through we also noticed some that were missing. We have now added new templates in the form of:
- {{WPTWelcome}} - a welcome tag to be placed on the talk page of a new user.
- {{User WPTheatre}} - a userbox for members of the project.
- {{WPT Sidebar}} - this template should be added to the side of any/all pages within the project to help navigate between project pages.
- {{WPTheatre User}} - the template containing the latest edition of the WikiProject Newsletter (you're looking at it now!)
- Collaboration of the Month
Ok, so this isn't exactly a new feature. It's always been there but has never really been updated on a, ahem, monthly basis (the clue is in the title!). The Collaboration of the Month (COTM) is now in template form to enable it to be streamlined across the Project, without having to be manually updated on each page. Don't worry if we've lost you at this point - the point is, it works! You can now nominate an article for COTM on the COTM page and we promise to adhere to it this time! It will be updated monthly! The more sharp-eyed amongst you may well have noticed that the COTM at the moment is still that old fella, August Strindberg. That's because no-one has nominated a COTM for this month (being a new feature an' all...) so we've decided to leave it as it is for this month until a new one has been democratically voted for.
- And finally...
Thanks very much for reading down this far - hopefully future newsletters won't be this long! Please, if you can, invite new members and drop us a line over at the talk page to let us know what you think of the new look/newsletter and any suggestions you may have.
You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If (like most of the old WikiProject) this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.
|
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here.
To view previous editions of the newsletter, click here.
If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.
|
|
[edit] WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter, March 2008
[edit] WikiProject Theatre April 2008 Newsletter
| The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter |
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 2 - April, 2008
|
|
Welcome to the second edition of the WikiProject Theatre Newsletter. This month's newsletter is focused mainly on recruitment and generally upping the profile of the WikiProject. Read on to find out more...
- Recruitment
Just in case you haven't had a chance to head on over to our new-look WikiProject yet, this is to let you know that on the Templates page there is now a new "Welcome banner" which is to be placed on any new members talk pages. However, it is yet to be used as we haven't had any new members join the WikiProject within the last month! If you know of a user which has been contributing to theatre-related articles recently then why not drop them a line on their talk page and invite them to come and join us? That way, we can finally use thour lovely shiny new Welcome banner template. We hope eventually to be able to use this newsletter to show off about the vast numbers of new members we have joining us each month, rather in the way that the newsletters of other WikiProjects do.
- Collaboration of The Month
This month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Quick - get yourself down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!
- Assessment
Just a note to say that there are two articles down at the Assessment page which have requested assessment. Please could a member of the project pop over and assess them for us? It's only a small task.
Whilst we're on the subject of assessment, an ongoing task is to assess every article within Category:Unassessed Theatre articles, feel free to make a start on a few when you have a moment.
- And finally...
Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project!
We're currently looking for members to volunteer in the compiling of this newsletter each month - please drop us a line at the talk page if you're interested in helping - be it in the delivery or writing processes of it!
You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.
|
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here.
To view previous editions of the newsletter, click here.
If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.
|
|
| The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter |
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 3 - May, 2008
|
|
Welcome to our third newsletter - we've got lots to get through this month so without further ado, let's crack on...
- The Big Debate - Character Lists in Play Articles
For those of you who haven't headed over to our talk page recently - you've been missing out! Throughout the past month there's been great discussion about the issue of character lists in play articles. The aim is to form a standard presentation of character lists to be used on all play articles so if you'd like to make your voice heard on the issue then check out the talk page now.
- Collaboration of The Month
Yet again this month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Quick - get yourself down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!
- Assessment
The number of articles at the Assessment page are growing - if you're feeling a little lost and don't know where to begin to help us out, head on down to the Assessment page and give us a hand.
- New members
The past month has seen Dereksmootz, Duckie for broadway, Dozenthey, Fewster, Nrswanson, Kleinzach and Broadweighbabe join us - welcome to you all! It's wonderful to see such a large influx of new members.
If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project?
- HELP!
We're crying out for people to help us out wherever possible. We are currently looking for members to volunteer to give us a hand in several areas. If you can do any of the following, please drop us a line at the talk page:
- Newsletter Editor(s) - Always fancied yourself as a bit of a journalist? Perhaps you could help us write this newsletter - it doesn't take long to compile. Maybe you'd like to help but can't commit on a regular basis? In that case, why not rally round a few other members of the project to help you out and take it in turns each month to compose the newsletter?
- Mailmen/women - If writing the newsletter isn't your bag then maybe you could help in the distribution of this fine document? As our membership grows it becomes quite labourious to send it to everyone. It's only a quick task that needs doing once a month, and really is just a case of copying and pasting a template onto our members talk pages.
- Portal editor(s) - It's come to our attention that the Theatre Portal hasn't been updated in a long time and we'd like to get someone, or a group of people to take charge of it and get it up to the standard of some of the great portals out there (e.g. the Comedy Portal, the Solar System Portal etc).
- And finally...
Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project!
You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.
|
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here.
To view previous editions of the newsletter, click here.
If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.
|
|
| The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter |
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 4 - June, 2008
|
- Collaboration of The Month
Yet again this month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Please can someone get down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!
- Assessment
The ongoing task of assesing the articles at the Assessment page continues - if you're feeling a little lost and don't know where to begin to help us out, head on down to the Assessment page and give us a hand.
- New members
The past month has seen Canadian Scouter, Carole Higgins, Gonzalo84 and Kiwiboy121 join us - welcome to you all!
If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project?
- HELP!
As mentioned in previous newsletters, we're crying out for people to help us out wherever possible. We are currently looking for members to volunteer to give us a hand in several areas. If you can do any of the following, please drop us a line at the talk page:
- Newsletter Editor(s) - Always fancied yourself as a bit of a journalist? Perhaps you could help us write this newsletter - it doesn't take long to compile. Maybe you'd like to help but can't commit on a regular basis? In that case, why not rally round a few other members of the project to help you out and take it in turns each month to compose the newsletter?
- Mailmen/women - If writing the newsletter isn't your bag then maybe you could help in the distribution of this fine document? As our membership grows it becomes quite labourious to send it to everyone. It's only a quick task that needs doing once a month, and really is just a case of copying and pasting a template onto our members talk pages.
- Portal editor(s) - It's come to our attention that the Theatre Portal hasn't been updated in a long time and we'd like to get someone, or a group of people to take charge of it and get it up to the standard of some of the great portals out there (e.g. the Comedy Portal, the Solar System Portal etc).
- And finally...
Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project!
You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.
|
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here.
To view previous editions of the newsletter, click here.
If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.
|
|
