User talk:Njbook

Hello, Njbook! 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

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Hi. If You would like help with anything, it's often better to get it from an experienced old hand, so don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page, or another experienced editor. You can of course always place the 'Help' template on your talk page, but you would need to explain very precisely exactly what help you need. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide me with links (like this: [[page name]]) to your draft pages so that I can find them and check them out for you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:12, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove the Lady of the Lake (ship) article

Please remove the above reference article that was moved yesterday and I had re-created a few days ago as Lady of the Lake (1833). The Lady of the Lake(ship) is a duplicate. Sorry for any confusion.

Please remove the Lady of the Lake (ship) article

Please remove the above reference article that was moved yesterday and I had re-created a few days ago as Lady of the Lake (1833). The Lady of the Lake(ship) is a duplicate. Sorry for any confusion.

Invitation to join WikiProject Ships

WikiProject Ships Hello Njbook! I noticed your contributions to a ship article, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Ships, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ships of all kinds. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~

Great start on an old sailing ship article!

Hello, Njbook! Great start on an old sailing ship article. You deserve the "Added Sauce" award for jumping right in with all those references!

If you join up with Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships, you'll find lots of friendly people to help you get going with more ship articles ... (Sailing ships are still pretty wide open for contributions, as people tend to cover the naval vessels first.) For sailing ships, I've put a bunch of useful links on my user page to help you.

FYI, I posted a note over at the WikiProject Ships talk page to get your two versions of the article merged together. Djembayz (talk) 16:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to WikiProject Ships

Hello Njbook, and welcome to WikiProject Ships! Please see the navigation sidebar on our main project page for information about our project guidelines, resources, and pending tasks. You can post any questions at the project talk page. Thank you for joining - we look forward to working with you! Addbot (talk) 03:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Djembayz (talk) 22:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article List of rail accidents (1900–1949), please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Tim PF (talk) 10:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I see that's been done, although it didn't appear right in the references section. I've changed it to use the {{cite web}} template, and also on your new Indianola train wreck article, where I've made a few other changes. You may wish to change the other references to use that (or the similar {{cite news}} template) as well. I'll watch this page for a few days, should you wish to reply. Tim PF (talk) 15:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Survey: use of Chronicling America on Wikipedia

Njbook:

My name is Donald Taylor and I'm the Wikipedian-in-Residence with the University of Maryland Libraries, Historic Maryland Newspapers Project. The Historic Maryland Newspapers Project is a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a joint program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are digitizing historic state newspapers for inclusion in the Library of Congress's Chronicling America online digital collection of America’s historical newspapers.

We are conducting a survey of Wikipedia contributors who have cited Chronicling America as a reference in their edits to Wikipedia. It is the objective of our study to identify ways that Chronicling America might be made a better resource for people editing Wikipedia. We recently used Linkypedia to identify contributors who have used Chronicling America. As an editor who has made use of Chronicling America, we hope that you will take our survey.

If you are interested in taking our survey, you can do so at this website.

More information about the survey is provided before you begin answering survey questions. Participation in the survey is strictly voluntary. It should take you less than thirty minutes to complete. You must be at least 18 years old to participate. If you have any questions about this survey, you can contact Donald Taylor, Wikipedian-in-Residence for the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, at dwtii@umd.edu, or Elizabeth Caringola, Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Librarian, at ecaringo@umd.edu.

If you decide to take this survey, please do so within a week, by Wednesday, 31 July 2014.

Thank you for your contribution to our study.

-- Taylordw (talk) 18:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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AfC notification: Draft:John Minturn has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:John Minturn. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Hibernia (1833)

Hi, I'm Robvanvee. Njbook, thanks for creating Hibernia (1833)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. The article is still an orphan and could use some additional sources. Otherwise, good job!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Rob van vee 16:10, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Santa Rosa (steamship) (December 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

Is this about the Santa Rosa, that sank in 1911, or the Lady of the Lake, that was in service in the 1830s? This appears to be about two subjects. If so, please split it into two articles. (This is not to guarantee that either will be accepted.)

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Njbook/Santa Rosa (steamship) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Njbook, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Minturn (December 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Still nothing here establishing genuine notability in Wikipedia policy.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:John Minturn and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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SwisterTwister talk 22:45, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Minturn has been accepted

John Minturn, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

SwisterTwister talk 17:54, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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MfD nomination of Draft:Santa Rosa (steamship)

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