User talk:Harsiem

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Hello, Harsiem, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Marauder40 (talk) 14:38, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Catholic pages

I reverted your recent additions to the Catholic and Catholicism pages. There are notability issues with adding individual Churches to such "high level" pages. In order to add that picture you will need to prove notability as to why that church is any more notable then any of the other Catholic churches throughout the world to be included in those articles. Marauder40 (talk) 14:41, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wiki!

Just a few guidelines.

Firstly, you need to create a page for St Peter's Church. It doesn't live on your home page.
Please use your home page to tell us a little about yourself.
Bold text is only used in articles on specific occasions. eg. at the very beginning of an article, the name of the subject is bold.
Italics are used for titles, foreign phrases, and sometimes for quotations. They are not used for a section of text that you have written yourself.
Pictures. You added a picture to the article Cathedral. It was immediately deleted. It was inappropriate, because the building isn't a cathedral.

Also, the introduction is a key part of the article. Overcrowding an intro that already has illustrations isn't appropriate. Pics in the intro normally go right, unless there is a very good reason for putting them left eg. a portrait that is facing right.

Stay around and enjoy wikipedia. It doesn't take too long to get familiar with the protocol. A couple more points:

Both British and US spellings are used. If you find that an article appears to be in US spelling, then leave it be. The protocol is that both may be used, but each article is kept consistent. So if the subject is American, so will the spelling be. Many general subjects have also been written in US spelling.
Before you edit an article, you must both read and look at it.

Inexperienced editors often enthusiastically add info to the introduction, that is already included in a section further down.

People sometimes jam information that is perfectly accurate and well-referenced into a paragraph where it doesn't belong, and sometimes dividing sentences that are linked in meaning, with disastrous results because a perfectly good paragraph can be destroyed, and stay that way. If you want an example of really atrocious editing, look at my long whinge on the page David (Michelangelo). A bad edit by an experienced editor, and a naive edit by someone not familar with art historical writing completely stuffed up the intro to this important artwork.

Likewise, the bad placement of a photo can displace a pic that was pertinent to particular text.

Amandajm (talk) 13:23, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Message

I don't know whether you have found them yet but I left you a couple of messages on the St Peter's talk page. If you click the "watch" option, then you can use your "my watchlist" option to know whether there are any changes to either page. You can add lots of pages to this option. Amandajm (talk) 08:40, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Harsiem, could you please make the necessary additions/corrections to the St Peter's page, as per my notes on the talk page. Amandajm (talk) 03:43, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]