User talk:Lightning3006
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[edit] Some information on Wikipedia
Hello, Bragadeesh,
Welcome to Wikipedia! I think it's great that you decided to contribute to The Free Encyclopedia: your article, while perhaps ill-placed in the wiki-community, was very interesting. To avoid further confusion, and so that your articles won't be disturbed by other users, I'd like to introduce some wikipedia conventions to you:
- Wikipedia entries can be contributed to by anybody who chances along and feels as though they can add to the topic. Therefore, there is no need to sign pages - don't worry, your authorship will still be retrievable in the page history of the article.
- Wikipedia uses its own markup languages. For hyperlinks to other wikipedia articles, you use Wikimarkup. For mathematical formulae (for example, set notation), you use TeX markup (see Help on Formulae for specific details). To learn how to write properly "wikified" entries, please read [[How to Edit a Page.
- Sign your comments on pages like Votes for Deletion and Talk pages by adding four tildes in a row ("~~~~"). Don't sign wikipedia articles, though, because attributing "authorship" to any one user is inherently contradictory to what Wikipedia is.
- Lastly, if you're going to add an article to Wikipedia, first make sure that it is not something that Wikipedia Is Not.
Awesome. That should be it; I'm sure you'll be fine from now on. If you have any questions, ask me on my talk page, or go to Wikipedia:Help.
Good luck,
jglc | t | c 18:23, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
Hi. Just wanted to say that I saw your Calculating Number Bases article on VfD and I voted to Keep. I think its great that you want to add to the mathematical breadth and depth of Wikipedia and encourage you to continue to do so!
In my opinion, the trick to making a how-to article more encyclopedic is to provide some good context in the lead. This wraps the 'how-to' content within a meaningful framework and helps it to become more consistent with other articles. For example, the binary, hexadecimal and base10 articles have background information explaining the history and purpose of their use. I'm guessing such context would broaden the appeal of your article. It's also great when how-to articles have discussions on practical applications or controversies surrounding their applications. Basically the idea is to stand back from the topic a few steps and take in the bigger picture. What's the bigger picture about "calculating number bases"?
Good luck! Hope to see lots of contributions. :-) Tobycat 06:05, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
