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Revision as of 21:46, 28 February 2007

Welcome

Hello, Shimaspawn, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. 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:

• The Five Pillars of Misplaced Pages
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style

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! CattleGirl 07:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for the Welcome

Thank you for the welcome to Misplaced Pages. I hope to do a good job editing articles. My areas of expertise are largely those of old World of Darkness rpg games, and I was hoping to do some work cleaning up those articles as well as helping fix general randomness. Thank you for the warm welcome. I'll read through the links you gave me. Oh, one question, how did you get the bits that Misplaced Pages normally convert to show up as plain text? Thank you again. Shimaspawn 16:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! I hope to see you around- if you have any other questions, always feel free to contact me on my talk page.

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Could you please clarify? Thanks, and happy editing- CattleGirl 03:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

If you need help

...Just come to me, CattleGirl, ot Adopt-a-User (which you can find more out about there). Cheers and welcome to the great project known as Misplaced Pages! —¡Randfan! 22:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I've adopted you!

If you have any questions, ask me at my talk page, and I'll respond as soon as I can. -Amarkov _edits 05:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: A question...

How do I nominate a page for deletion? The nomination page seems needlessly convoluted. Can you please explain it in simpler language? I would greatly appreciate it. Shimaspawn 00:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Sure I can! Ok.

Basically, first you need to make sure the article really needs deleting- if it's an attack page or nonsense page, consider putting a speedy delete tag on it- I'll give you the links for that in a minute.

Otherwise, if you want to nominate an article, it's pretty much common sense, however, as you know, there are guidelines found at Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy.

If it's suitable for deletion, it may be because it's not encyclopedic, it is just something someone made up, it fails other guidelines, links found here, a vandalism page (not just have been vandalised, but was created for the sole purpose of vandalism), or even if it will never amount to more than a couple of sentences.

To nominate an article for deletion-

Firstly make sure it can't be improved or re-written.

Then-

Read up on these links- they may help you in the process.

Put {{subst:afd1}} on the top of the page, and in the edit summary, type this: nominated for deletion: see ]. Replace pagename with the page you just nominated for deletion.

Save the page. When the page re-loads, you should see the deletion tag at the top of the page. On this tag there will be a link to an AFD page, found in bold on the second line (You may share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page. Click on that link.

This will take you straight to a blank AFD page. Start editing this page by putting in this text: {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Reason the page should be deleted}} ~~~~, replacing 'PageName' with the name of the page you just nominated for deletion, 'Category' with the letter symbolising the category of the discussion, letters found here, and 'Reason the page should be deleted' with the reason you are nominating the page for deletion. A good idea is to mention a few policies the page fails.

This time, put this text in the edit summary: "Creating deletion discussion page for PageName because ..." and inserting reasons for nomination. Remember to replace 'PageName' with the name of the page you are nominating for deletion.

Finally, you have to list the page on the appropriate AFD page. To do this, click here and scroll down to Part 3 of the instructions. Click on the 'CLICK HERE' link, and insert the following to the bottom of the page- {{subst:afd3 | pg=PageName}} replacing 'PageName' once more. Include the page's name in your edit summary, and then you're done!

Some articles have already been nominated for deletion. For these articles, place {{subst:afdx}} at the top of the page to be deleted instead of {{subst:afd1}}. Also, when you list the page on the appropriate AFD page, instead of replacing 'PageName' with the name, type the name of the page with (2nd Nomination), however be sure to only use this on the last step.

I hope that small essay helped you- remember, feel free to ask me any other questions! Congratulations on being adopted, by the way- CattleGirl 11:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. This is much easier to follow, especially since it's all in logical order. Shimaspawn 15:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. I agree with the that the Articles for Deletion page is a bit confusing, it took me a while to get it- maybe that's something that could be changed. Anyway, happy editing- and congratulations on your recent adoption! CattleGirl 23:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Glomps

Hey, what have you been up to? I've been running around sticking things in categories... and you know school and work and such. Shimaspawn 19:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• Not much lately, have fixed up some template code, gotten involved in deletion discussions and such --Random832 19:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  • That's cool. I've posted a few things on AFD myself yesterday. I've been a bit bored lately. Shimaspawn 19:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
    • ok - well, if you're bored there's always AN/I and so on - they're often interesting to read. --Random832 19:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thank you

Re your message: No problem. Thanks for reverting all of his edits. =) -- Gogo Dodo 21:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)