User talk:Stetsonblade

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Stetsonblade, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 19:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response to help request

I watch Category:Wikipedians requesting help improving their user pages, and saw you appear there. Your user page looks like a good but minimal start to me, but is mostly userboxes. The main improvements I can think of would be use your own words more - tell Wikipedians what you are here for, what topics are of interest to you, etc. - to put the Babelbox in its default location (and only put language-related userboxes in it), and then either remove or move to a /Personal sub page the "just for kicks" userboxes, and retain on the your user page the userboxes that genuinely tell other Wikipedians something Wikipedia-relevant about you (and there are more of them you could add for this purpose). For instance sci-fi fandom preferences, etc. are not particularly informative from a WP perspective, though someone more deeply interested in what makes you tick might find them of interest on a /Personal page. What is or isn't really WP-relevant is a judgement call. Your location probably is, as is your interest in broad categories such as science fiction, since this may guide people one what to seek your input about, what WikiProjects to invite you to, etc. I would bet money that there is a Stargate Wikipedia:WikiProject. Please see my user page for an example of how to break up a huge "blob" of userboxes, and arrange them so that they enhance the text they appear with. I don't say mine is some "model" for how to do it, just an example. I put stats up at the top, then ones that relate to my activities and editing, with some text talking about that stuff too, then Wikiphilosophical ones down in that section, where I have nascent essays on Notability and so forth. Hope this helps and gives you some ideas.  :-) PS: If you want to do something more whiz-bang and different, I'd advise looking at a lot of admins' pages. Many of them have figured out some very nice styling with wikitables and such. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 19:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response to User Page Overhaul

Here are some ideas for your user page box things..

  • Left handed or right handed?
  • Favorite letter (a.. b.. c..) ?
  • English speaking?
  • Foreign languages?
  • Politics......?

--Spixels 21:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


......something like this? --Andrew Hampe | Talk 19:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Under Renovation

Hello, Stetsonblade, and thank you for signing up to participate in the trading spaces program. As you requested to have your user page renovated by another user, Andrew Hampe will be renovating your userpage. Please contact Andrew Hampe on their talk page about the renovating. The renovating will be listed at Trading Spaces: Undergoing Renovation, please feel free to update the status as it changes. Enjoy! --~~~~

--Andrew Hampe Talk 22:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


Begun work... --Andrew Hampe Talk 22:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)