User talk:Buster7/Welcomes
assorted Sue Garner greetings
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Hi Spoink H1N1, and welcome to Wikipedia! What you wrote is true: on Wikipedia, everyone is part of something bigger than themselves. If I spend an hour writing an article, that doesn't add much to the world -- but if everyone who reads Wikipedia writes an article, that would be 400 million new articles for the world to read!
Wikipedia is really important. Thank you for joining us here, and I hope you keep editing. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a note on my talk page. Thanks!
Sue Gardner (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Tharring, and welcome to Wikipedia! Don't worry if you're having trouble getting your bearings: that's normal for everyone in the beginning, and it doesn't usually take too long to get oriented.
If you're being prompted to save, that probably refers to an article you're editing. If you're editing an article, there will be a button towards the bottom left of the screen that will be labelled "save page." If you click it, you are saving your changes, and publishing the new version of the article.
Hope that helps! If you have more questions, feel free to leave me a note at my talk page. Thanks!
Sue Gardner (talk) 00:31, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
User:Samsawiki
[edit]Hi Samsawiki -- Welcome to Wikipedia, and I'm sorry you're having trouble making citations. I don't know what cheatsheet you're using, but I'm hoping I can help. Here's what to do: There is a "Cite" toolbar at the top of the edit window which allows you to automatically generate the required wiki code.
You click one of the templates, e.g. "book", and fill in the details.
More information can be found in Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or the citations tutorial (the below video will play best in Firefox or Chrome):
Hope this helps,
Sue Gardner (talk) 06:24, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Wahula. It looks like a couple of the early edits you made here have been reverted or redirected. Please don't let that discourage you! It takes a while to get the hang of editing Wikipedia, and it's totally normal for people to have their first edits reverted. It happens to everyone in the beginning, and I hope you stick around long enough to get past the bumpy early days. Welcome, and good luck!
Sue Gardner (talk) 08:19, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Explaining deletion to a New Editor
[edit]- OK. First, please understand that not every organisation gets a page here. Then read WP:COI which is about conflict of interest (more clearly, it is about editing concerning you and yours - subjects you are closely involved with). Follow up with WP:RS which is about reliable independent sources. Without these, your article would stand no chance. These are needed to back up claims to notability - if no-one knows about the organisation, or no-one has bothered to discuss it or review it, then it's not time yet for an article here. A lot of people want to use Wikipedia as a springboard to launch their project and get it noticed, but that's not the way it works. When something is of note (by our standards), we'll record it. The work of getting it noticed is yours. RS does not include blogs, forums, press releases (including places like PRWire), Facebook etc, websites at blogspot or wordpress, or wikis (to mention just some of the no-go ones). When/if you think you can make it, create the new article (taking care not to promote and using neutral wording WP:NPOV) at User:USERNAME/DRAFT and then ask someone for advice. (Just click that red link and you'll have somewhere in your userspace to work.) It should be safe there from patrollers, except for attack, advertising or copyright violation (note that if something is published somewhere else, even if you wrote it, it can't be used here; brief quotes that are acknowledged are OK, but if wanting to use outside material look at WP:COPYVIO first. ```Buster Seven Talk 14:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
- Drafted by (talk) 10 July 2012
Em dash
[edit]Hi Buster; any chance we can change the spaced em dashes — to either unspaced em dashes—or spaced en dashes – as set out in the Manual of Style? Tony (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2013 (UTC)