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Speedy deletion of Horton, Alabama

A tag has been placed on Horton, Alabama requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Calvin 1998 (talk) 03:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hello, 1bookfan! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, 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

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Horton, Alabama

Thanks for creating this article. I have declined the speedy deletion as all towns are notable. If you could please add sourcing information and expand this, it would be greatly appreciated. Dloh cierekim 05:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 21:33, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page moved

Hi. A page you created, 1bookfan autographs page, has been moved to User:1bookfan/autographs page so that it would not be confused with the Wikipedia mainspace. The redirect created at its original location has since been deleted. Thank you. --Blanchardb-^{MeMyEarsMyMouth}-timed 00:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of 1bookfans autographs page

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages such as 1bookfans autographs page, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Simple Paradox 01:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 1bookfan, just letting you know - autograph pages should generally be in userspace, not in the main article space... even if you might be affronted by the notice, putting user pages in the article space is generally considered vandalism. Just a heads-up. Cheers, GlobeGores (talk) 01:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey 1bookfan, I hope you did not consider my notice rude. You can actually create your own autograph book on your user page. Check out WP:SUBPAGES for a guide on how to do that. Good luck. --Simple Paradox 01:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jimbo Wales

Hello, please don't put barnstars on Jimbo's userpage. Please put them on User talk:Jimbo Wales. Thanks. JetLover (talk) (Report a mistake) 03:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also like to remind you that we are not a social networking site. Thanks. JetLover (talk) (Report a mistake) 03:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Arab tribune

A tag has been placed on Arab tribune requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page you created, you may want to consult WP:Your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JetLover (talk) (Report a mistake) 03:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of 1bookfan my wikipediaholc test score is 1,467

A tag has been placed on 1bookfan my wikipediaholc test score is 1,467 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kevin (talk) 05:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User subpage

Hey, just letting you know that you created a page in the mainspace, when it should have been made as a user subpage. I moved it for you to here. (User:1bookfan/User Awards). Happy editing! Icestorm815 (talk) 05:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey...

Just letting you know, if you want a subpage, all you have to do is create a page with the title User:1bookfan/(titlename) and there you have it. To transclude a page, add two brackets {{}}, and as to command, add three brackets: {{{1}}}. If you need any more help, use the {{helpme}} template. There, and happy editing! —B o L @ 05:36, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your V's Place order

Hello dear customer. Thank you for ordering the Corner bar from our shop, but I'm very sorry to tell you that we cannot proceed with your order because:

You did not specify the subpages that will be presented on the corner bar.

Please solve this issure by: specifying the subpages that will be presented on the corner bar. As soon as you do this, I can keep on working. Thank you.-- Vintei Talk 17:41, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your V's Place order

Hello dear customer. Thank you for ordering the Custom barnstar from our shop, but I'm very sorry to tell you that we cannot proceed with your order because:

You did not specify the colors that will be presented on the barnstar.

Please solve this issure by: specifying the colors that will be presented on the barnstar. As soon as you do this, I can keep on working. Thank you.-- Vintei Talk 17:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your V's Place order

Hello dear customer. Thank you for ordering the Custom userboxes from our shop, but I'm very sorry to tell you that we cannot proceed with your order because:

You did not specify the colors and contents/image that will be presented on the box.

Please solve this issure by: specifying the colors and contents/image that will be presented on the box. As soon as you do this, I can keep on working. Thank you.-- Vintei Talk 17:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your V's Place order delivery

Code:

[[User:1bookfan|<span style="background: #000000; color: #FFFF00;"> 1Bookfan </span>]][[User_talk:1bookfan|<span style="background: #FF0000; color: #0000ff;"> Talk </span>]]

Which would produce: 1Bookfan Talk

Thank you for ordering from V's Place! Have fun!-- Vintei Talk 00:38, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your plus box

Thank you, 1bookfan, for your award. That was very kind. --Simple Paradox 22:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thank you so much for the Barnstar. I really appreciate it. P.S. For future barnstars, make sure to add them here. ;) -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 01:49, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

speedy deletion of 1bookfan/milestones

i've nominated the page 1bookfan/milestones for speedy deletion. it seems like you are trying to start a sub page but you ended up with an article. to create a subpage, place the text under user:1bookfan/milestones instead of just 1bookfan/milestones.Ryan shell (talk) 02:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- hey, thanks for the barnstar Ryan shell (talk) 02:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No content in Category:Category:Wikipedians in Alabama

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Category:Wikipedians in Alabama, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Category:Wikipedians in Alabama has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Category:Wikipedians in Alabama, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 13:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a social networking site

Hello. While we appreciate that you seem to be enjoying yourself, it's of concern that you appear to be mainly using Wikipedia for social networking activities rather than improving encyclopedia articles. Please understand that Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site. If you continue your activities in this fashion, you may be subject to censure from the community. Thank you. Metros (talk) 14:22, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yet again, I am here to remind you that this is an encyclopedia and not a place to hang out to have cool user page features. Metros (talk) 03:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with him. I used to do that, and I ended up getting blocked for 48 hours. So...? —B o L @ 04:56, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry :{ 1Bookfan Talk

See, this is the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. You just spent 4+ minutes and 6 edits trying to get your signature correct. That's pretty unnecessary. Metros (talk) 05:05, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's true. Even I'm not obsessed with my sig. Preview, then save. —B o L @ 05:07, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or just use a default signature and not worry about any of this crap of making sure it looks perfect and all the HTML lines up right, etc. etc. Metros (talk) 05:10, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry :{ 1Bookfan Talk

I need a wikibreak. 1bookfan 05:16, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Again

Since the warning at 14:22, 21 December 2007, you have edited 89 times and zero of these edits are to the article space. All of them related to user space edits. As the warning says, if this continues, you may be blocked. Metros (talk) 22:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On your future with Wikipedia

I should probably tell you this: there are several editors who have severe doubts about your future editing on Wikipedia. You're treating the project like it's a social website, which it isn't. Wikipedia is, and always will be, about writing an encyclopedia. There's been a recent purge of pages from your personal userspace, which has been deleted as a gross abuse of what the user namespace is for; personal pages that relate somehow to editing the encyclopedia, rather than just stuff relating to you, personally. Yes, there are exceptions to this, such as userboxes and personal essays, but putting things like the golden globes are way out of scope.

Quite frankly, you need to focus on editing the encyclopedia. Leniency in regards to userspace comes with valued contributions to the project, of which you've made very, very few (for example, I've got about a hundred or so subpages, but I've also got over 100+ solid mainspace contributions [1])

I wish to see you stick around as an editor and spend your copious free moments in improving the encyclopedia, but continuing to treat Wikipedia like a new MySpace or Facebook is a sure ticket to a short drop and a sudden stop, so to speak. Consider this a friendly but stern head's up. The same happened to me, you know.

—B o L @ 05:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Categorizing articles

Hi I noticed that you tried to add Horton, Alabama to Category:Marshall County, Alabama by directly adding it to the category page. This is incorrect. You categorize an article by adding the category name to the article page like this: [[Category:Marshall County, Alabama]]. I've corrected your previous attempt. :) Aleta (talk) 19:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from your comment on the user page of Jimbo Wales

I have copied here what I wrote in response to your last comment on Mr. Wales's talk page wherein you hoped no one was angry at your use of German there:

"No one is angry about your use of German on this page; some of us were merely confused. It happens, here as elsewhere. Mr. Wales has invited commentary in German, so it would ill behoove any of the rest of us to take any other position. Bielle (talk) 23:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC)"[reply]

No need to apologise. Those of us for whom English is our cradle tongue are frequently confused by its many ways of making statements. The only anger (and it was more distrubed than angry) was Mr. Wales's, and he was disturbed that your German text had been removed simply because it was in German. Eveything is fine now. No German text will be deleted from his talk page simply because of the language in which it is written. Happy editing Bielle (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

subpage usage

I'm here for two reasons.

I found your secrete subpage
To dully inform you of subpage misusage

You're not supposed to use subpages for searches and such, but I'm just going to give you a slap on the wrist (metaphoricaly). Although personaly I don't really care what you do in your userspace. YДмΔќʃʀï^→Г_C← 12-23-2007 • 23:20:34

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Bowling

Description: This WikiProject would aim to improve the quality of and expand the coverage of bowling-related articles on Wikipedia.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

– Alex43223^{T | C | E} 18:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mearnhardtfan 20:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IstvanWolf 22:13, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Useight 21:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Howenstein115 14:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
user:1bookfan --DJ 23:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

What kinds of topics are envisioned? History of bowling, famous bowlers, bowling leagues, what? --Lquilter (talk) 16:21, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- My guess would be the existing articles in the Category:Bowling and its subcategories, and any new articles that might be found to meet the extant notability guidelines. John Carter (talk) 17:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - The main things I envisioned in the project were, as aforementioned, improvement and expansion of articles in the category, as well as the creation of new articles with expanded coverage of current and previous professional bowlers and related topics. – Alex43223^{T | C | E} 07:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - This group now has enough members for a viable task force. Would any of you be interested in becoming a task force/work group of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports? John Carter (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - I only scored a spare! :( Simply south (talk) 19:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So many people from one village! 18:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simply south (talk • contribs)

There is an existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Bowling] which could, frankly, use a lot of work. Please feel free to modify the page as you see fit. 18:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bowling

This project is newly created. In fact, I'm the only member and any help would be, well, helpful, if you'd like to join. Useight (talk) 22:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday 1bookfan

Hey, 1bookfan. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!-- Vatsan34 (talk) 08:16, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors wanted in Troy, Alabama

Hi! I'm leaving you this message because you're listed as a Wikipedian in Alabama. The Wikipedia Ambassador Program is currently looking for Campus Ambassadors to help with Wikipedia assignments at Troy University, which will be participating in the Public Policy Initiative for the Spring 2011 semester. The role of Campus Ambassadors will be to provide face-to-face training and support for students on Wikipedia-related skills (how to edit articles, how to add references, etc.). This includes doing in-class presentations, running workshops and labs, possibly holding office hours, and in general providing in-person mentorship for students.

Prior Wikipedia skills are not required for the role, as training will be provided for all Campus Ambassadors (although, of course, being an experienced editor is a plus).

I know Alabama is a big state, but if you happen to live near Troy and you are interested in being a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador, or know someone else from Troy who might be, please email me or leave a message on my talk page.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:20, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, 1bookfan! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]