User talk:Monkeyheadster

Welcome

Hello, Monkeyheadster, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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What to do?

Step one is to write some sensible stuff on your user page. Wikipedians are often suspicious of "red users", as they have a habit of being trouble-makers who make accounts without having any positive intentions. Telling the community about yourself should make it easier for people to like you - no offence, but people often don't realise this.

Step two is to get contributing generally (and improving, not just tagging for deletion). Again, people don't like users who create accounts to resolve issues like this. It will help if you get a reputation as someone who is proactive in improving things, not just here to get things deleted. There are lots of articles on Japan which could use improving.

Step three is to identify all plagarised articles. If articles have plagarised sections, merely remove the text and then explain (concisely) why you're doing it on the talk page.

Step four is to list the articles for deletion, as you have done here. But don't list all of them in one go, do them in batches. Make sure to match up articles that should be deleted for the same reason. Only list for deletion if the whole thing is plagarised. If there is salvageable stuff there, reduce the article - put a stub tag on if you have to. Or you can just give the list to LordAmeth, who seems to be willing to help.

Step five is to notify the Japanese history community about the deletions and ask for their comments (not help in deleting it, as that's frowned upon). John Smith's 12:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]