User talk:Jeffrey.A.Limpert
- Jeff (talk) 21:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Jeff's Scratch Area
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A tag has been placed on Jeff's Scratch Area requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. ttonyb (talk) 21:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Scratch pages
[edit]Your scratch pages (called sandboxes here) should go into userspace, not into mainspace. Please tag the existing pages with {{db-author}} and recreate them here. Best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 21:27, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Ron's Scratch Area
[edit]If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Ron's Scratch Area requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 21:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Jeff's Scratch Area
[edit]I moved this into your userspace so you can find it here: User:Jeffrey.A.Limpert/Jeff's Scratch Area. You are free to take notes there without disturbance. Cheers. —Ute in DC (talk) 21:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Jeff, Ute's already shown you what you need to know, mostly. The easiest way to create a subpage in user space is to just get onto your user page (or your user talk page, if you want it to be a subpage of that, but you'll usually want it to be your user page) and append "/New page name" to the end of the URL (substituting whatever you want for "New page name") and hit enter. A page will come up with a link to start that page. Click on it and an editing page will come up and you can go after it. To create a link to it on your user page just enter [[/New page name|New page name]]. You can also create the page by just entering that tag on your user page, saving it, and then clicking on it. To refer to the page somewhere else than on your user page, for example on your user talk page, once it's been created, use this tag [[User:Jeffrey.A.Limpert/New page name|New page name]]. In either case, you can put whatever you like after the "|". Best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 21:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC) Oh, PS: What you've said above suggests that more than one person may be using this account. If that's correct, it violates a strictly-enforced policy of Wikipedia and will almost certainly cause the account to be blocked. The other person needs to create their own account; they'll still be able to edit this page from that account. TM
Thanks to all - Jeff - Jeff (talk) 22:07, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
A formal welcome!
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Hello, Jeffrey.A.Limpert, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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