User talk:Waywardson13

Please email me!!!!!

Hi

Yo, Yo,Yo, Wayward my homie!

Jacs 12:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC):...Sup...[reply]

Jacs 15:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC) Guess wat? I changed a link on one page because no page with that title existed! A good thing[reply]

Welcome

Ok, please do not do it again in the future:

Welcome!

Hello, Waywardson13, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Prodego ^talk 15:32, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{unblock|I'm sorry about impersonating drini. I was playing a prank on my friend at school. I was already forgiven by prodego, and to make up for it I took out about 15 bad links. My fault, and I won't do it again. }}

Well, it is really up to Drini whether you are unblocked, so you will need to wait for him. However, you should know that redlinks should not necessarily be removed, as having them in an article encourages people to go write about the topic of the redlink themselves. Redlinks should be removed if they link to a topic that doesn't deserve an article (like the redlinked tours you removed), but links to notable people or places (see Wikipedia:Notability) should be kept. I will leave a note to Drini for you. Cheers! Prodego ^talk 18:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are now unblocked, remember to abide by all our policies in the future. Happy editing! Prodego ^talk 18:49, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

I noticed you are attempting to request adminship for yourself. However, I strongly suggest you not attempt an RfA yet, since most users require 4 months of editing (and 4000 edits or so), although this is not a strict rule (Some users have put what they expect from candidates here), it is not likely that an RfA would pass now. I can delete your nom page as long as you don't list it, or you can just blank it to withdraw. If you just want to set up a page to request adminship in the future, I can move it to a user subpage of yours. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Prodego ^talk 19:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course I am not forcing you to withdraw, if you are sure you want to do this, despite the odds, you can. However a successful RfA is unlikely and it may save you from the pain of going through the process. If you are sure you want to try for adminship, you need to remove the nowiki tags from the nom page, answer the questions, and sign where the page says "Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:". Then you need to update the time at the top of the page to 7 days from when you accepted and list the page at the top of the main RfA page using the format:

{{Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Waywardson13}} ----

However I reccomend you withdraw. Happy editing! Prodego ^talk 20:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your requests

I deleted the nomination page for you. Making fancy userpages is difficult until you get comfortable with the wikicode, there are instructions available, but you really need to use the code to get to know it well. If you would like help making a user page, I would be glad to. As for you other question, if you look in the manual of style, which explains how articles should be formatted, you should find some good things to look for. Of course you can also rewrite hard to read articles, expand short articles, fix links to disambiguation pages and such. If you have any questions, ask away! Prodego ^talk 22:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link repair

Disambiguation pages are pages about words that have more them one meaning. To solve this problem the page links to separate articles about everything that word could mean, for example see the disambiguation page Russian. Now in an article if I said, "He can speak Russian" the link would go to the disambiguation page, when it should go to Russian language. To repair these mistakes you first find a disambiguation page, there is a list of pages needing attention here. Then open the page, I'll use Russian as an example. On the left of the page (if you use the default monobook skin), below the searchbar, there is a box with a link that says "What links here". With the disambiguation page loaded, press that. This will give you a list of pages linking to the page you were at, in this case Russian. Then you find the first page on the list that is an article (no prefix like Talk: or User:). Open that page in a new window and click "Edit this page". Then search for the word of the page you are disambiguating, in this case Russian (Note: if you are not using internet explorer, this may not work). When you find the link decide which of the options listed on the disambiguation page the link should go to. Lets use the example above and say it had to Russian language. Now you would see the code as "He speaks [[Russian]]. Now to link to Russian language without changing the word in the article (so it doesn't say "He speaks Russian language") you need to use a piped link. To do that, change the code from [[Russian]] to [[Russian language|Russian]]. This will make the link say Russian, but link to Russian language. The repeat for the next article on the list. IF you can't decide where a link should go, just skip that page and go on to the next. Remember that there maybe more then one link to the disambiguation page on an article, so after you fix one link, search again to make sure there are no more. Hope this helps, ask me if you have any questions. Prodego ^talk 19:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, good job. You may actually want to start with my example (Russian) since it is a very simple one. Prodego ^talk 20:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, once you make 500 article edits there is a tool called the AutoWikiBrowser which lets you semi-automate these things. If you get tired of fixing disambiguation links there are other things, vandal fighting for example that you may be interested, so ask away if you need anything. Good luck, and happy editing! Prodego ^talk 20:43, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing, you should sign at the end of your comment, like {comment goes here. ~~~~}. Prodego ^talk 20:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well since anyone can edit Wikipedia, it gets a lot of people who vandalise, they blank articles, add nonsense to them, and things like that. Hundreds of editors work to revert this vandalism, and keep the articles in good condition. Mainly people watch recent changes to pages using tools to help revert and warn editors. You can read up on it here, and if you are interested, I can get you more information and some advice. Prodego ^talk 20:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you read WP:VAND and WP:RCP as a start, also see WP:VPRF and WP:CDVF. Prodego ^talk 20:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Clarification.

Hello,

I recently got your message. However, if you could, please clean up your reply; that block you sent me is almost impossible to read.

In the meantime, I will hold off on any further edits... --Folajimi 21:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If a page has (disambiguation) in its title, it means there is likely a main page on the subject (IE Constance and Constance (disambiguation)). Disambiguation pages are necessary for when people search for a word, so shouldn't be replaced. For example, if I type Russian into the search box, I want a page to ask whether I want the language or the culture. Disambiguation link repair is making articles link to the proper place, the disambiguation pages themselves shouldn't be touched. Prodego ^talk 21:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are doing a good job, keep it up! (Unless you wamt to do something else, there are plenty of tasks that need to be done) Prodego ^talk 02:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]