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Hi. I notice you are creating some articles. Welcome. You may want to wait until you have enough information, however, before you create articles you may want to have more than just a definition of the topic or a reference to a related item. Consider gathering more information about your subject before you create the article. Anti-Catholic has been tagged for speedy deletion. Is there more that you can add to the article? Is it possible that this information is covered in another article? - Tεxτurε 02:34, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello Tomf, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please mark uploaded images as PD (public domain), Fair Use (most images taken from another website), or GFDL (original images of your that you are adding to Wikipedia).

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[edit] Wikipedia conventions

Hello. In re offensive coordinator: please note that articles should begin with complete sentences rather than dictionary-style definitions, and the title word or title phrase should be highlighted at its first appearance like this. Also, it is usually better to write about the thing the term refers to, rather than about the term itself. Thus "A dog is an animal that barks" is better than "Dog is a term used to refer to an animal that barks. (Of course it is sometimes appropriate to write about the term, for example to explain that it has different meanings in different contexts, or it should not be confused with some other term, or it is considered offensive, etc.) Michael Hardy 23:55, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Gibbs nascar.jpg

Could you please provide an image copyright tag for this image? Thanks!--Diberri | Talk 22:48, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ivan

I was wondering what was keeping everyone else from updating it :) -- Cyrius|✎ 00:07, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

On a related note, would you please include more informative image description pages? The one for Image:Ivan Sat Img Sept 7 2004.jpg isn't terribly informative, and doesn't even have a link to the image source. I tracked it back to the unskewed high resolution version of this image, and added a better description.
This message brought to you by the Association for the Advancement of Image Description Pages. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:35, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)