User talk:Newsmill

Welcome!

Hello, Newsmill! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing!   — Jess· Δ♥ 01:54, 11 October 2013 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hey Jess... Thank you for reaching out with your offer to help. I am most certainly interested in learning how to be a better wikipedian. If there is a group related to the intelligent design page, would you be kind enough to show me where it is? Thanks a million Newsmill (talk) 00:46, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Hey Newsmill! Sorry I didn't get back to you right away! I don't always check user talk pages unless I know there's an ongoing conversation there. Anyway, I see you found WikiProject Creationism, which is pretty much the answer to your question. I'm sure they can help you out more with identifying articles that fall in that topic and organizing tasks. If you need any help in a general sense, feel free to let me know.

By the way, I reverted an edit you made just a minute ago to Creation science. I'd be happy to talk about it on the article talk page, though. Basically, I see why you thought that would be a good addition to the article (he's talking about how "young earth creationism" shouldn't be confused for science.) But the thing is, "Creation science" is more than just two words mashed together... it's a whole distinct topic. Just like "intelligent design" isn't about just anything which is designed well... it's about a certain type of creationism. Neil Degrasse Tyson isn't talking about "creation science" specifically in that quote, so I'm afraid it doesn't look incredibly relevant to the actual topic of the article. We have to be careful we're sticking to the topic closely and not going too far off, of course! If there's something I've overlooked (that certainly does happen!), feel free to drop into the article talk page, and we can discuss it in more depth! :) Anyway, see you around!   — Jess· Δ♥ 00:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Ancient Astronaut Creation Theory

Hello Newsmill
Interesting page at Ancient Astronaut Creation Theory. Did something on the subject myself at school, err .... many years ago. :-\ One thing you could fix is the many in-text links to external websites. These should changed to references. <ref>web site url</ref> is all that is needed for a very quick 'n dirty ref. 220 of ^Borg 03:47, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your input! I'll get onto doing that Newsmill (talk) 03:51, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Added : to indent your post. 220 of ^Borg 06:47, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

However, if you have already used a 'cite' template don't remove it! Just put the ref 'tags' outside it. And I suggest using Show preview to make sure it works. Also take a look at Referencing for beginners if you haven't already. :-) 220 of ^Borg 06:47, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Newsmill (talk) 13:50, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Ancient Astronaut Creation Theory for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ancient Astronaut Creation Theory is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient Astronaut Creation Theory until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. jps (talk) 13:02, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Project for class?

Hi,

I'm wondering if you might be able to provide me with the information as to which school, class, and instructor you were taking that assigned you to make the article referenced in the previous section of this page. Also, could you let me know whether there are other student projects from that class that are included in Wikipedia? Any information you could give on this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

jps (talk) 17:59, 25 February 2014 (UTC)