User talk:Scubafish

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 10:33, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

1 Fair use rationale for Image:Padi.jpg
2 WikiProject SCUBA
3 {{User:Scubafish/userboxing/under-water}}
4 We Want You!
5 Legacy Userboxes
6 WP:SCUBA Newsletter Issue #1
7 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-AI
8 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-AOW
9 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-Divemaster
10 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-MI
11 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-Master
12 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-OW
13 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-OWSI
14 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-Rescue
15 Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-SI

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Padi.jpg

Image:Padi.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 00:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Changed image round for text. Scubafish 07:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem and thanks for the note!--Lepeu1999 12:09, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject SCUBA

Hi I'm a participant of WikiProject SCUBA. I'd like to ask you if you mind if we shall use some of your userboxes? And if you'r interested you'r welcome to join to our project.--Yegor Chernyshev 23:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC

[edit] {{User:Scubafish/userboxing/under-water}}

About your underwater template. I like that template? but i'd like to ask if you acept it to be used in WikiProject SCUBA. And it'll be cool if one could change number of hours in water. Can you do that? --Yegor Chernyshev 23:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] We Want You!

This user is interested in SCUBA diving, Surface supplied diving, and its history.

Hello Scubafish! We are in the process of starting a WikiProject devoted entirely to Scuba Diving. Our goal is to expand Wikipedia's coverage on Scuba Diving. I encourage you to check out our project at WP:SCUBA and sign you name to the list of interested Wikipedians!
- Gr0ff 14:16, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legacy Userboxes

Scubafish, there is no need to remove your old SCUBA-related userboxes. We may still be able to put your work to good use, and re-purpose the userboxes for WP:SCUBA. Also, there are Wikipedians currently using your userboxes, and I doubt they'd want you to delete them. I'm open to reasoning for the contrary though. Let me know if feel otherwise. - Gr0ff 17:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:SCUBA Newsletter Issue #1

Welcome

Since this is the first issue of the WP:SCUBA Newsletter, I wanted to take a moment to welcome you as a charter member. We are starting a project with the goal of organizing an enormous amount of information, but as participation in WP:SCUBA expands, so will our editing power through collaboration. Please feel free to invite other interested Wikipedians to join our project.

Categorization of WP:SCUBA Articles

I believe that we need to adopt a categorization system to begin organizing these articles. Some categories exist, such as Category:Diving equipment, and can be utilized. The end goal should be to have a set of general categories (less than ten I would hope) that can be used to categorize ALL articles that fall under the scope of this project. Subcategories can then be utilized where needed. This will also help us identify where work needs to be done to further the WikiProject as a whole. Please post comments at the bottom of this page and let me know what you think.

Article Rating for WP:SCUBA

As you are hopefully aware, we place the {{WPSCUBA}} template on the talk page of any article that falls within the scope of WP:SCUBA. It is a standard practice to use the Project Template to rate articles as stub, start, B, GA, A, etc. I invite you to research what is involved in setting up a rating and reporting system for WP:SCUBA as we currently do not rate our articles. This will help us identify the most important articles to our cause, and easily see which articles need the most work. Please feel free to post any questions on my talk page.

YMCA SCUBA

It has been my personal goal to start creating articles to cover all of the major scuba diver certification agencies, and categorize them as Category:Diver training agency. On the List of diver training organizations YMCA SCUBA links to YMCA (diving organization), which then redirects to YMCA. The problem is that the YMCA article doesn't discuss their recreational diving program anywhere. I would like to start a separate YMCA Scuba article using the information on their Official Site, and fix the redirect at YMCA (diving organization) to point to the new article. I invite you to post your thoughts and opinions on these actions on my talk page.

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-AI

A tag has been placed on Template:User:Java7837/userboxing/PADI-AI requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).