User talk:Jayintheusa

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Hello, Jayintheusa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Help has arrived

You wanted some help, here I am! How can I help you? You can ask your questions right here, and I will respond.--Commander Keane 19:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


Hello and thank you! I would like to start a stub article on Shiraishi Island, and island in the Inland Sea of Japan. I can cobble together 3 or 4 good sentences about it, but I really just want to past it into some template. I can't find a stub template and all the instructions seem quite involved. Can you help me?

Sure I can help! Don't worry about a template, just start the article (click on Shiraishi Island then "Start the Shiraishi Island article"). Save your info there, don't worry about the style I'll check over it and make sure it's like a standard Wikipedia stub aritcle. If you have any other questions let me know.--Commander Keane 19:32, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

You are fabulous!! I'll do it right now!! Thank you. Jayintheusa 19:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I did it! I have to step out for 30 minutes, but I'll check back late. Thanks again! Jayintheusa 19:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

What a great article! I have gone through and "wikified" it (given it the usual Wikipedia style). In case you want to know I'll list the things I did below. The great thing about Wikipedia is that if you don't know how to do something you can just do your best and someone will come along and improve it.
The modifications I made:
  • Bolded article title - the article title is usually bolded. Example: '''Shiraishi Island''' will look like Shiraishi Island.
  • Linking to other articles - to do this you just enclose a word with square brackets. Eg for Kasaoka, putting [[Kasaoka]] in the edit window makes it a link; like Kasaoka.
  • Added a category - I put [[Category:Islands of Japan]] at the bottom of the article, so other readers can more easily find this article. I found it by searching for "Category:Japan" and looking in the subcategories.
Have a nice day!--Commander Keane 20:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Jayintheusa 04:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help request

Hi! You need help with something?--Commander Keane 05:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, fabulous! (Are you a caped superhero or something??) Anyway, I'm ready to create another wiki stub, following the Shiraishi Island tips that you gave me last time. The problem is that I want to create a stub about a jazz composer and player named Duncan Lamont, but there is already another page with that name concerning a movie actor. Until a disambiguation page is created, how do I create a stub with the same name?

Can't wait for your advice!

You can put a qualfier in the title. For example Duncan Lamont (musician) or Duncan Lamont (Jazz composer) - anything you feel is appropriate.
Then we can either create a disambiguation page at Duncan Lamont OR just put a notice at the top of Duncan Lamont (the actor article) - something like For the jazz composer see Duncan Lamont (Jazz composer). I'll work with you to sort it out - don't worry if it seems daunting. I'm investigating a cape.--Commander Keane 05:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm all set for now! Jayintheusa 05:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Rename

Hello. I've deleted your old user page as you requested, and fixed your signatures on this page to try and prevent Google from indexing that name. If you go to your old user page and user talk page and click "what links here", you will be able to find other references to it, which you might want to edit to show your new name. I've edited the rename archive and I don't think the automated rename log is indexed by Google. Angela. 00:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pavillon de Paris

Hi, I don't know how to format this request properly.... but can someone link the Pavillon de Paris article in the English wikipedia to the same article in the French version? And perhaps vice-versa?

Thanks! JayUSA

{{helpme}}

Done done and done, both the versions now link to each other, also don't forget to sign your posts.--Kerotan-Have a nice day :) 00:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)