User talk:Tosshoo

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Welcome!

Hello, Tosshoo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Accounting4Taste 04:05, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Giblink

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Giblink meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giblink. Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, a neutral third party will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. Accounting4Taste 04:05, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help Request

Basically, all articles on Wikipedia must conform to three core policies: verifiability, neutrality, and no original research. Those are all pretty straightforward. However, an additional policy that trips up nearly every new user is notability, which kind of follows from those three (how exactly it follows is a matter of debate). But notability basically says that in order to have an article on a topic, we need to be able to show that the topic is important. And not just important, but that it's been the subject of multiple, non-trivial and independent coverage by reliable sources. Any information from the topic itself doesn't count here (ie, no press releases, etc). The coverage should come from newspapers, books, journals (if they're reputable), well-established websites (blogs, forums, or other places where users generate the content are usually out), magazines, etc.

For websites, a more specific version of notability is at WP:WEB, for corporations WP:CORP, or people WP:BIO. But if an article meets notability, neutrality, verifiability, and isn't original research, it's pretty much guaranteed to stay. (Well, unless it was a cut-and-paste copyright violation from somewhere else).

Now, I know that's a lot of stuff to absorb, and we don't expect new users to learn it all at once. So be bold, and don't worry too much if you make a mistake. And if you need help, you can search for it, go to the help desk, or just type a question on your talk page and end it with {{helpme}}, and someone will come by. (Or feel free to ask me too :) ). Hope that helps and happy editing, --Bfigura (talk) 05:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)