User talk:Lousadajr

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Lousadajr! I am Call me Bubba and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Call me Bubba (talk) 00:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And again – welcome!

And thanks for the great article on the B-Monitor. Wikipedia needs all the help we can get to expand our coverage of aircraft not from the United States or Europe :) I made some slight adjustments to the format to help the article better line up with the standards that WikiProject Aircraft currently uses – I hope this is OK.

It's great to have you here. Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 07:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The category tree is a bit complicated: it is described here. Basically, each category has three parts: Nation, Role, Decade. The Decade is the decade that the aircraft first flew in. The Role is one of about 24 categories that we have used to classify all 5,000 or so aircraft that Wikipedia covers so far. Creating a new category requires understanding of how the category relates to three categories above it: a Nation-Role category, a Nation-BroadCategory-Decade category and a Role-Decade category.

For example, I created Category:Brazilian sailplanes 1940-1949 for the article on the B-Monitor you created. In turn, this category is part of Category:Brazilian sailplanes, Category:Brazilian civil aircraft 1940-1949, and Category:Sailplanes 1940-1949. In turn, each of these categories becomes part of 2-3 other categories, in a strict pattern.

Rather than jumping straight in and trying to create new categories, my advice would be to write a few articles first and attempt to categorise them by adding a category link at the end of the page. For example, type [[Category:Brazilian sailplanes 1950-1959]] to add a sailplane to that category.

For now, don't worry if the link stays red (indicating that the category doesn't exist yet) – this will be an opportunity for someone from the project to give you feedback; and I'm sure you'll pick it up quickly from there!

And of course, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me, or on the project talk page. --Rlandmann (talk) 20:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Note that we don't add articles directly into (for example) [[Category:Brazilian civil aircraft 1950-1959]] – this is a parent category only. The actual article gets classified under what type of civil aircraft it was. Most light planes, for example, will go into either the "civil utility aircraft" or "sport aircraft" role.

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An exciting opportunity to get involved!

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