User talk:Wikimike123

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Wikimike123! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! jonny-mt 09:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] January 2008

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you've been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as you did to Marcel Vezina. This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thanks for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. jonny-mt 09:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Marcel Vezina

An editor has nominated Marcel Vezina, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcel Vezina and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 22:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Because the city of Shawinigan-Sud merged in 2002 along with other cities, many sources, websites from "merging" cities, have been taken down. Hence sources on the web is very scarce. On the other hand, I talked to a journalist working at the Nouvelliste in Trois Rivieres, and I am told that most info from newspapers prior to 5-6yrs ago, have been taken out of the web, and placed to microfiche. I don't know how to cite my sources and to "link" microfiche to Wiki...???? There's plenty sources in Journal de Montreal, Journal de Quebec, Lapresse, Le nouvelliste, but on microfiche. Wikimike123 (talk) 08:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• To answer your question about paper sources: just post a reference to the sources (title, date, page number), perhaps indicating briefly what sort of coverage it is (report, interview, profile, exit poll, etc.). Other editors with access to microfiche/archive will then be able to verify them. --Paularblaster (talk) 22:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

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Please visit Wikipedia:Upload. (talk) 08:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Marcel Vezina

Hi Wikimike123 and welcome to Wikipedia! The people around here have pretty high standards and the article you created is, well, crappy. I don't mean that badly, it's way better than anything I've ever done, but don't feel bad if it gets deleted.

You might want to try editing some other articles to get a feel for how things work. You can certainly reference material on fiche, you will have to learn about "cite" templates, and of course if people can't call it right up on the web, it will get that little extra scrutiny. Don't let that stop you, just get better with WP:RS and WP:V and WP:CITE (and all the rest of the Wiki alphabet soup!).

Help us out with some of the existing articles, we need all the help we can get! :) Franamax (talk) 08:44, 9 February 2008 (UTC)