User:RHaworth/moans

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[edit] "Google this"

One of my pet hates is people who say "if you Google …". Now it is OK to say that down the pub (nowadays we even have to qualify that to 'down the pub when no-one has internet access about their person'!). Now let me spell out very slowly what I expect people to do:

  • Go into your preferred search engine and do the search you want to tell people about. Refine it, if necessary to improve your argument. Every decent search engine returns its results as a new URL, so …
  • Go to your browser's address bar, copy the URL and paste it into the message you are creating.

Here is an example: this Google search is a totally inaccurate indication of the number of times people have asked me "why did you delete …".

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] db-noncom

Let us say that you have uploaded an image and in the licensing box selected either of :

  • The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work in Wikipedia articles (no other terms specified) - (message)
  • The copyright holder only allows this work to be used for non-commercial and/or educational purposes - (message).

Having uploaded an image you are expected to review the image description. In the above two cases you will see a message which incorporates the {{db-noncom}} tag.

[I have stopped drafting this - {{Idw-noncom}} covers it].

[edit] redirect

On Wikipedia we create an article once only. If other titles are considered appropriate, we use #redirect. (If you have created multiple copies of an article, ask yourself: "which copy are people supposed to edit"?)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Shh

There is an internet convention that writing in capitals is SHOUTING (see this at the Beeb for example). Wikipedia is like a public library: we do not SHOUT. If you have submitted an article using excessive capitals, you will need to convert it to lower case with normal capitalisation before it stands any chance of being accepted.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] e-mail

I am always willing to e-mail copies of deleted articles but if you want me to do it, please:

  • Log in if necessary
  • click on 'my preferences'
  • set up an e-mail address and tick the box labelled "enable e-mail from other users". Note that nobody will ever see this address - unless you chose to reveal it.
  • leave a note on my user talk page. If I am feeling bolshie, I may ignore your message if you do not include a proper wikilink to the deleted article and your signature: ~~~~.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Page artificially lengthened so that links to a specific moan will put that at the top.