User talk:Holy genie

Welcome!

Hello, Holy genie, 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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...also, please do not create userpages for other editors. That is in most cases for them to do themselves. Is there any reason why I shouldn't delete those pages? Syrthiss (talk) 11:59, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can respond any time now, or you can continue doing what you are doing and end up blocked. Your choice. Syrthiss (talk) 12:02, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Usually the wikipedian categories exist for editors to self-sort themselves into. Editing (or in your case creating) userpages that puts an editor into a category is in most cases disruptive. What criteria are you using to decide who goes into that category, that they edited a page related to the area? If that was the case, I'd be put into hundreds of categories. Syrthiss (talk) 12:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well usually categories exist to tie articles together with common themes. So Leonardo Davinci is tagged with Category:Italian inventors, and if you go to that category you can see articles on other Italian inventors. If you are working on articles and know of a common thread between them, you can create a new category page. You might take a look at WP:CAT to learn more about the categorisation system here. Hope this helps. Syrthiss (talk) 12:17, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To change a link from a User:Syrthiss/blablah redlink to just regular text, all you have to do is remove the square brackets around it. However, you may not want to do that because red links let editors know that there are articles for those items that haven't been written yet. If it is something like a person linking every word and those are all red, then yes please feel free to remove those red links. If you haven't viewed the Introduction link from my welcome message, it may help you with some of these questions on editing. Syrthiss (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Holy genie,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011