User talk:Ignite63

Hello, Ignite63! 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 using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC) 20:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Mentor

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I've been selected as your mentor to help you through your project. As luck would have it, I have a little bit of a background in telecommunications. I worked for AT&T for 10 years. I started as a sales rep with Pacific Bell, was promoted to management in a year and became a software developer for SBC Communications and a fraud investigator. Before the merger with AT&T, I transferred to Nevada Bell as an analyst and finished my career with them running the dispatch center in Reno, Nevada before moving on to bigger and better things. I've been editing on Wikipedia for a little over 5 years. I mostly work on articles related to my hobbies (custom knife collecting, music, animals, martial arts) and a few related to my business as a sportwriter (professional and amateur boxing, mma, collegiate wrestling) and as a firearms and combatives instructor. The writing style on wikipedia is encyclopedic and in what is known as a summary-style; it often reminds me of writing a term paper as opposed to a magazine or newspaper article. I can help you out mostly in the form of finding reliable sources and formatting references. If you have any questions, leave me a message on my talk page or send me an email for any "offline correspondence", that link is on the left hand side of my talk page. I look forward to working with you.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:17, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Chidi_Iwuoma.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Chidi_Iwuoma.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 20:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. feydey (talk) 20:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)