User talk:Londonfella

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Hello, Londonfella! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! J.Naven 20:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Bills player edits

Hi, can you do me a favor and stop altering the intros for players of the Buffalo Bills? We are trying to keep the intros standard, so if you have other info like a specific draft spot or a fact about their career, please put it in the body of the article, like a section called "Professional career."►Chris Nelson^Holla! 20:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, sorry didnt mean to mess up the intros. Ill take your comments on board and put other information elsewhere on the pages. Thanks for the heads up. Londonfella.

No big deal. By the way, you can sign posts on talk pages by typing ~~~~.►Chris Nelson^Holla! 16:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks alot.

[edit] Adoption

Sure, I'll adopt you. I see your account is only a month and a half old, so if you ever have any questions at all, feel free to contact me. My first tip is when you sign your name with the ~~~~, you don't have to write "Londonfella" after that. Useight (talk) 15:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

If you're having trouble with adding references, don't worry, it's kind of tricky, just find a different article that already has references and use the same format as that. Useight (talk) 22:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Football League

Londonfella, i am a new user and just wanted to try and find a wikibuddy (if that is the right terminology) i noticed that you also like american football and seem to take a great interest in making sure the pages are correct. i admire this value and wondered if you would mind giving me some advice when it comes to editing. i dont seem to be able to work out how to source. i am sorry to bother you with this request but i have seen some of your edits and think you were the person to ask. Macches. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macches (talk • contribs) 15:55, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Future Adminship

Well, if you want to become an admin in the future, you could start with an editor review, or an admin coach. They can give you detailed advice on what to do to improve your editing skills and policy knowledge. Based on your current statistics, I see you have 690 total edits, which is a lot for only three months as an editor. However, it's going to take at least 2000 edits to pass an RFA. I have a page, here, that details what I like to see in an admin candidate. Many other editors share similar feelings. So, if you can edit in such a way that you meet my criteria, you'll have a much better chance of passing RFA. Useight (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

If you're looking for an admin coach, one that I know really well is bibliomaniac15. He does a good job, but he only accepts candidates that he feels are ready and he often is quite busy with several coachees at once, so he may or may not be able to coach you. Useight (talk) 15:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Right now, I do not recommend admin coaching for you at the moment. Admin coaching is best when one has been around for a good period of time and has a good amount of experience (say, 6+ months). Right now, you should focus on your adoption with Useight. Pressure him to tell you more. Adminship is a long ways, but it can be achieved when one is patient. bibliomaniac15 Do I have your trust? 23:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, first off, you won't need to pressure me like bibliomaniac15 says, ask me any question you like and I'll answer it as soon as I see it. Secondly, to answer your questions on my talk page referring to User:Useight/RFA Standards, mainspace edits means number of edits to actual articles. According to your stats, you have 911 mainspace edits. You can see on that same page the fifteen mainspace articles you have edited the most. Your other question asks what Wikipedia namespace edits were. Just like this page I'm typing on says "User talk:" on the top, this is a user talk page. The Wikipedia namespace pages start with "Wikipedia:", such as the two you have edited: Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/members and Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League. Other Wikipedia pages could be: WP:XFD, WP:AIV, WP:RD, WP:RFA, WP:ANI, and all of their subpages. Some more links to Wikipedia areas can be found at User:Useight/Helps#Work_Areas, all the ones there that start with "WP" are Wikipedia namespace.

Your final question asks what I meant by, "High activity in areas in which candidate mentions in Q1." During an RFA, there are 3 basic questions that they answer (more may be added by other editors), often referred to as Q1, Q2, and Q3, short for Question 1, etc. In Q1, it asks the admin what areas they plan to work in as an admininstrator. If they say they want to block vandals, my "High activity" sentence means I want to see work at WP:AIV. If they want to work at CAT:CSD (deleting pages), I want to see them tagging articles for speedy deletion. If they want to work at WP:AFD, also deleting pages, I want to see them putting in their input there. Wherever they plan on working as an admin, I want to see that they have sufficient experience in that area.

I hope that answers your questions, sorry for typing so much. If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. Useight (talk) 15:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fighting Vandalism

There are some good places to start. You could monitor new pages, or recent changes, or add some of the pages list at Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages to your watchlist. Perhaps you can get a hold a tool like Twinkle or Huggle to help you out, but it can be very easy to make mistakes using those tools. Useight (talk) 16:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)