User talk:Denis Castelli

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February 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Brewster's, New York. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —Largo Plazo (talk) 05:23, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of edits

Wow... did I blow it. It was not my intention to bypass the rules or protocols of Wikipedia. I thought I understood the process and guidelines, but it is clear from your note and my research since your posting that I skipped a few steps.

My name, as it appears here is my real name, not an alias. I am the Historian of the Village of Brewster, New York, appointed by its Mayor, Jim Schoenig. I have been a trustee of the Southeast Museum for about 16 years and a volunteer there for more than twenty. I mention this only to describe myself as a knowledgeable individual of good intention whose only goal is to increase the volume and quality of data about my local area in cyberspace. I believe that Wikipedia is the ideal host for that information.

I have been learning how to use Wikipedia incrementally and could use all the help I can get to improve the quality of my entries. I am grateful for the recommendation to merge my brief historical entry with the Brewster entry, but I am not sure how.

Please point me to the specific directions for doing so or merge the entry yourself with my blessing. I opened the Brewster entry to see where my block of text could be placed and did not recognize anything I saw there.

If you don't have the time or inclination to deal with this, I am prepared to delete my entry and substitute a #REDIRECT for the page.

Denis Castelli (talk) 05:55, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thanks for your reply. Please understand that I haven't accused you of any terrible thing! :-) The Brewster, New York article doesn't have a History section now, but you can create one, wherever you think is appropriate, by typing the level 2 heading ==History== by itself on one line, with the two equals signs on each side, and then entering content after that: anything you want to about the history, including the mention of the place first appearing on maps as "Brewster's" or "Brewster's Station". You can divide the History section up into subsections, if it's long enough to warrant it, by inserting level 3 headings for those sections delimited by three equals signs instead of two.

See WP:Citing sources for information on how to create footnotes to show the sources where the information you're writing about can be found.

Once you've moved this material there, please change it back to a redirect as I had changed it to at one point: #redirect [[Brewster, New York]]. I see that there's already a Brewster's Station, New York article that redirects to the Brewster, New York article.

Regards, —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Largo,

Thanks for your prompt reply and your interest in seeing this handled properly. I will make the modifications you suggested. I added a third and fourth redirect for Brewsters and Brewsters Station (without the apostrophes) as these appear elsewhere in Wikipedia. That's what brought me to this matter yesterday. The entry for John McCloy has his military records indicating his birthplace as Brewsters in one place and Brewster in another. I wanted to explain where that came from and while I was developing the page - you posed your question. I will complete the component offline and then post it in its proper place to the Brewster, New York entry.

Thanks again Denis Castelli (talk) 14:39, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

You're doing some good work (I've polished the proto-articles in your userspace a bit), but when you write biographies, I strongly recommend that you follow the advice given in WP:LEDE. For instance, the first sentence of the article on Paul Fitchen should have included some detail of why he was important (and now it does). DS (talk) 13:23, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2016

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Top Hill Preserve, from its old location at User:Denis Castelli/Top Hill Preserve. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:29, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Lindera Loop Trail, from its old location at User:Denis Castelli/Lindera Loop Trail. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:30, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Putnam County Land Trust, from its old location at User:Denis Castelli/Putnam County Land Trust. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:32, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Brewster Station workspace, from its old location at User:Denis Castelli/Brewster Station workspace. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:33, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Landmarks Preservation Society of Southeast, from its old location at User:Denis Castelli/Landmarks Preservation Society of Southeast. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:35, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Lindera Loop Trail

Hello, Denis Castelli. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Lindera Loop Trail".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.