User talk:Otherlleft
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[edit] Beren (political party)
Hi, do you have a source for the information you added to Beren (political party)? If you do, please add it. KazakhPol 15:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, sorry, I had not checked. Thanks for adding the info and Welcome!
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[edit] Adoption
Hello! I see your seeking adoption. If your still interested I'd me more then happy to answer your questions and help you out. You can respond back to this by leaving a message here. If you have decided that you no longer wish to be adopted, please remove the adoptee's userbox from your userpage. Thanks, hope to hear from you soon! Matthew Yeager 03:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Adoption Program
Hello again and welcome to the adoption program!
Please take some time to think about what you would like out of this program and what you can devote to it. After you have thought about this please message me on my talk page about which areas you would like to focus on. As well, if you are completely new or you are not sure, you can let me know that and I can give you a general overview. You will get as much as you put in with this program. If you would like me to be someone that you can ask questions to every once and a while, then thats who i'll be. Yet, if you wish to be in constant contact with me and have me go over your work with you each day or so, then thats who i will be. This is your choice, just please let me know :P
Also if you could please remove the adoptee userbox from your userpage so that others know you have been adopted. If you like you can replace it with this user box:
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This user has been adopted by Matthew Yeager. |
Thank you for your time, Matthew Yeager 16:47, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] another adopter
if another adopter has offered to adopt you, you should take advantage of having TWO experienced users to help you out! i would contact the other person so that you have more resources to contact if you need some help! Matthew Yeager 01:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Glad I can help, I think two adopters is a splendid idea! - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 03:00, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Similarly, you could add {{adoptee|HammerHeadHuman}} to your userpage... - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 03:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
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- Neat, I will give some thought on how to get the most out of this program then. Any early suggestions are quite welcome! --otherlleft 03:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm online frequently, I'd say whenever you have the slightest problem or question (or if your bored and looking for things to do on Wikipedia) just send a message! - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 19:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Adoptee Help Center
So I was thinking about where I want to go on wikipedia, and you have other adoptees with good ideas. Things I like and would like more of:
- I enjoy writing but don't see myself writing new articles all that much.
- I'd like to learn more of the commonly used tags about stubs and wikifying and needing references and neutrality.
- Also would like to be able to add those references, wikify and NPOV those entries, so that I don't feel like I'm copping out by adding those tags . . . sure, there are times when I won't have the knowledge, but if I do have a source or something I'd rather put it in.
- I feel more like a gnome than a fairy. --otherlleft 00:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
This was the post in response to things he would like to learn. I think leaving the post on this page will be good for all three of us to work with! I'm happy to have HammerHeadHuman here and as he said, dont feel afraid to send him a message even if its just to chat (we like to just talk about non-wiki stuff every once in a while :P) as far as this goes... i think you (otherlleft) can benifit greatly by having two adopters to help you and to look through your work for you! if you like you can post on your own talk page and we can check there so that you dont have to post on each of our pages.
stuff to learn
down to the learning!!!
for all the new adoptees, i've added a new section to my talk page "things that need to be done". you will love it, as it lists a bunch of pages that need the things you want to learn, done to them. I suggest you check out the Manual of Style so that you can see then general format wikipedia articles should follow. with this when you visit the "clean-up" links (from the section on my talk page) you will be able to easily recognize errors in others articles and be able to fix them and make significant improvements. also with your interest in wikify, you should check out their project on it. once you read through those things real quick (no need to memorize everything) you can pick something you want to focus on and work at improving those aspects in an article. for example if you read through the Manual of Style and see that you arent suppose to add an internal link to a reference after you already did it once (like i just added a link to manual of style twice) then you can focus on that and start small by add links \ taking them away as needed. then when you feel comfortable with that you can read something else in teh manual of style and improve that as well and so on and so on, until you know it all :P if you have any questions feel free to contact either one of us or just post it on your talk page. good luck buddy! Matthew Yeager 06:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Perfect, hope this too will help get you off in the right direction:
1. Enjoy writing but don't see yourself writing new articles all that much?
- No problem. There are plenty of articles out there that need rewriting. You can look for those articles that are in need of wikification or clean up through their categories, or, if your looking for more fun (in a nerdy kind of way) try the random article link on the left over there (under "navigation"). You'd be surprised how often you'll find mistakes in those randoms.
2. Like to learn more of the commonly used tags about stubs and wikifying and needing references and neutrality?
- Then you'll love this page, it shows most of the common clean-up tags, and what they are generally used for. I use it daily.
3. Like to be able to add those references, wikify and NPOV those entries, so that you don't feel like you're copping out by adding those tags?
- You probably know this already, but make sure your familiar with the Wikipedia:Guide to layout, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Citing sources. Wikifying is pretty fun, and usually there are no disputes involved in layout improvement. However, be cautious of NPOV editing (not that it isn't a good thing to do), most editors who add info that seems to others to be POV can get pretty defensive, and they can sometimes take things rather personally.
4. Feel more like a gnome than a fairy?
- Gnothing wrong with gnomes. We make Wikipedia work! Find something you love to do, and work it! I, another humble gnome for example, love reverting vandalism and sorting stubs, those areas are where I spend the majority of my time here.
- HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 03:50, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Checkup
Just doing a periodic checkup of all my adoptees... How's everything going? - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 17:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC) Shame on me for not keeping in touch, typical man that I am! I've been mixing it up a bit, actually: sometimes I'm in the mood to speedy-delete flag new pages, or I might find pages of local interest that are inaccurate, or I proofread random pages, and I'm really enjoying adding references when I can find them. Of course, that's a tricky thing, actually finding the references. I also have discovered there are several people I directly or indirectly know that claim there is inaccurate info about them here, and I intend on finding out verifiable truth so I can fix it. Seems my tech-savvy friend got herself blacklisted for spamming, so I imagine I can do a bit better than that! I recently started bookmarking resources that come in handy, like templates I often use (speedy delete, biography infoboxes, stub). Maybe I should have thought of that awhile ago, hmm? --otherlleft 15:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] David Gulotta
The article David Gulotta has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for 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. J Milburn 15:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, that's great. Thanks a lot for not taking offence- when new page patrolling, I really don't have time to research things. J Milburn 15:34, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- I look for references- mentions of magazine or newspaper articles, external links, that kind of thing; and if I can't find any, I run through the text to look for anything that suggests that the subject may be notable. If there is anything in the text that places the person, website or group above your average one, then I will not speedy, and instead prod or send to AfD. I guess writing style helps too, biased as it sounds. I am far more likely to let a referenced, (even if not well referenced) neutral article survive than I am to let a one line, unwikified, uncategorised vague statement survive. J Milburn 15:45, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Circle Sanctuary article
Hello there, I believe from the talk page at Neopaganism that you are interested in this topic. I've set up a drafting page here which will let us assemble a good-looking, well-referenced article so that we can release it into the mainspace with a chance of surviving. I'm happy to 'host' the page but have no knowledge of Circle Sanctuary myself, so will rely on others with more knowledge for material! Please come and join us if you would like to. Many thanks, Kim Dent-Brown (Talk to me) 09:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Hello
ay, just wanted to see how you were doing and if you had any questions. been a while since we've talked, making sure you are doing well about wiki : ) MatthewYeager 08:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] userbox for you
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Is this what you've been looking for ? MatthewYeager 11:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
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