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2015–16 Austrian Football Bundesliga

Hi, may I ask why you reverted me without any explanation when I added standard template for league tables? Qed237 (talk) 22:18, 27 July 2015 (UTC) Im sorry, I saw a big deletion. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 13:44, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, thank you, you can help with a problem that I have with another account Riesories (talk) 03:33, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

What about your other account? If it is blocked or banned, I can not do anything about that, only administrators can. Next time, create a new section for this. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 13:47, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Tim witherspoon

Thanks for keeping it it is fact but I know a lot of problems when people delete fact by accident and when people don't detect vandalism Sotoeoejsj (talk) 00:02, 4 August 2015 (UTC) Hello. I just wanted to let you know, that you appear to have made a mistake. I never edited that article. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 00:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC) Ohh I know you said on my talk page about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sotoeoejsj (talk • contribs) 20:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for the welcome!

Just wanted to say thank you for the warm welcome, the links are very helpful. (I also wanted to practice writing on someone else's talk page if you don't mind)

I do have one question about photo rights. I've written to a couple of people asking for permission to use their photos, and so far both have said yes. I've then upload the photo for usage, but I'm not sure what to do about licensing. I have express permission from the photo's author, but I have no knowledge of the proper license. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks! EmilioDiegoGarcia (talk) 18:51, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I was not really sure about this, so I asked at a place called the Teahouse. The Teahouse is a place on Wikipedia where you can ask questions, and other users can answer them. In advance, if you ever have a question, I recommend asking there, as you should have an answer in the course of an hour. I will let you know when your question gets answered, and will tell you the answer. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 21:30, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Ok, here is your answer. Read this. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 14:38, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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@ThisGuyIsGreat: Thank you very much! I will keep this in mind when adding photos to Wikipedia. EmilioDiegoGarcia (talk) 14:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Trout right back at you ;)

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: whacking me with a minnow instead of a whale XD

Thanks for the good humor! ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 19:46, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of MafiaScum

Hello ThisGuyIsGreat,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged MafiaScum for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 20:13, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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Co-op mentorship

Hi ThisGuyIsGreat, welcome (again) to Wikipedia. I'm Yunshui, and I've been assigned as your mentor by the Wikipedia Co-op project. I don't know whether I can teach you everything, but I can probably show you a fair bit - where do you want to start? Yunshui 雲水 08:34, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Yunshui. Maybe we could start with some stuff on how to write articles and be a good writer? Is that ok with you? ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 17:02, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay, let's talk article writing. There are three main guiding principles to bear in mind when you're writing for Wikipedia, with a fourth thrown into the mix if you're creating an article from scratch. These are as follows:
  • Verifiability. I'm not sure this was even a word until Wikipedia coined it, but now it's a fundamental element of writing Wikipedia content. Verifiability means that every bit of factual information you add to Wikipedia needs to be supported by citations. In other words, you can't just write, "Elbows are the bendy bits in the middle of your arms"; you need to cite at least one source which talks about elbows, their bendiness, and their location in your arms. I'm being a bit flippant here, but hopefully you get the idea. Read the full policy for the details, but that pretty much covers the gist of it.
  • Reliablity. Not all the sources you could cite, however, are created equal. Wikipedia has some basic standards of sourcing, to avoid the encyclopedia filling up with tabloid journalism and quotes from Time Cube. In the example above, if you have a choice between citing Dr Susan Smith MD, Joints of the human body: a bio-mechanical atlas of the human skeletal structure, Elsevier, 2013 on the one hand, and a forum posting by Contributor:BillyLuvzCheez which states, "elbows be in u arms lol", it should be fairly obvious which is more likely to meet Wikipedia's requirements. The basic rule of thumb is: sources must be published, must have some level of professional editorial oversight, and must not be polemical. Again, read the policy for the nitty-gritty.
  • Neutrality. Wikipedia doesn't take sides. We aim to report balanced, factual information (whether we always succeed is a matter of some debate, but that's the theory). As such, your writing needs to remain neutral: avoid excessive adjectives (indeed, avoid adjectives in general), don't exaggerate or extrapolate from what the source say, report the information without bias. This is difficult to do; I've been writing for Wikipedia for a while (article number 200 will hopefully be up by the end of the summer) and I still sometimes find myself being a little over-enthusiastic about my subject matter.
Plus, if you're writing a completely new article, you need to also consider:
  • Notability. Wikipedia doesn't have, nor does it aim to have, an article about everything that's ever existed. Instead, we want articles about notable subjects, and that means they need to have (memorise this next bit, it's like the mantra of Wikipedia) "significant coverage in multiple, reliable sources that are independent of the subject". The best explanation of this that I know of is here; take a look.
Once you understand verifiability, reliability, neutrality and notability as they apply to Wikipedia, you're well on your way to writing excellent encyclopedic articles. Yunshui 雲水 17:44, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, that really helped. Can you help me out with all of the technical terms? Thats my main goal of this, figure out the crazy amount of technical stuff at Wikipedia. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 21:31, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Sure; what technical terminology were you struggling with? As a (very loose) rule of thumb, if you come across a term on Wikipedia which you don't understand, try putting it into the Search bar prefaced with "WP:". For example, searching for "WP:Notability" will take you straight to WP:Notability. Even if the term isn't exact, you may well get a drop down menu of other options that might help.
The "WP:" incidentally, is a shortcut code for "Wikipedia namespace" (putting "Wikipedia:" in front of your search term will work in the same way). Pages prefaced with "Wikipedia:" are in the Project namespace, just as pages preceded with "Talk:" are in the Talk namespace and pages preceded with "User" are in the User namespace - you get the idea. Wikipedia has a number of different namespaces; the only one without such a prefix is the Article namespace (usually called "mainspace"), which is where the main body of the encyclopedia lives. For more information on namespaces, see - unsurprisingly - WP:NAMESPACE. Yunshui 雲水 13:01, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that, the specific area is links and stuff, that's the part I am struggling with. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Links are pretty easy to understand, so that's a bonus. Basically there are three types of link you'll come across:
  • Wikilinks Wikilinks take the reader to another page within Wikipedia. You create them by putting double square brackets around a term; thus [[Apple]] give you a wikilink to the page Apple. These are the most common links you'll find on Wikipedia. Wikilinks can also be piped to change the text they display; thus [[Apple|Banana]] still links to Apple but displays as Banana. Wikilinks can also go to non-article pages within Wikipedia: User:Yunshui is a wikilink, for example.
  • External links External links go to other websites - reference sections are the most common place you'll see these. To create an external link, use single square brackets and be sure to include the "http://". Thus, [http://facebook.com] is how you would create a link to Facebook (which would look like this: [1]). To change how external links display, put the display text after a space, so [http://facebook.com A popular social media site] comes out as A popular social media site.
  • Interwikilinks These are pretty unusual; they are links from Wikipedia to another Wikimedia project (which includes other language versions of Wikipedia). They work like wikilinks, but require a project code as the preface. [[fr:Pomme]], for example, will take you to the French (fr) Wikipedia entry fr:Pomme.
Does that help? Yunshui 雲水 17:55, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, thank you very much. Are you ok with covering things such as templates, categories, and shortcuts? ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Whoops, haven't been back here in a while, sorry. For templates, have a read of User:Yunshui/Templates for beginners (although I do need to overhaul that essay sometime). As for categories and shortcuts, what would you like to know? Yunshui 雲水 14:11, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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In case you didn't notice…

Just in case you didn't notice, the message at the top of my article and on the article talk page says "Please do not rush to mark this page for deletion". I am the WikiMan (Click here to contact me!) 02:38, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Not to pile on, but please slow down. I just created Joseph Horsfall Johnson and I am adding another reference now. Perhaps you could discuss before rushing to delete things? Jonathunder (talk) 00:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey, I didnt speedy deletion, this is AFD, if some other users think it should be kept, it will be. You can go to the page and say you need more time and vote keep. Just letting you know. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 00:55, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not new here. I know how that works. Please take a look at my history. Jonathunder (talk) 00:58, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Ok, Calm down sir, I don't think I'm allowed to remove the template now, if that's what your thinking. I'm trying to do my best.

ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 01:02, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm calm, and I'm not worried about the article being deleted. We were all new once, and I won't bite you. Jonathunder (talk) 01:58, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

AFD - Speedy Keep

Hi ThisGuyIsGreat, I've closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Horsfall Johnson as Speedy Keep as you've not provided a valid reason - "Way too short, and not very noteworthy" is obviously not a valid reason to nominate an article,
In future please read WP:AFD and you might wanna read & follow WP:BEFORE too,
Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 02:16, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Radical Rappelling: 3 October 2015

I don't see why you think this article should be deleted. I think this is a matter of your personal opinion. It is not written for promotional purposes. I can see millions of other wikipedia articles written up for games. This doesn't make any sense. I am definitely going to protest this further if it is deleted. Looking at your history, it looks like you have a history of rushing to delete things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omegodriver (talk • contribs) 00:13, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Sup

Lol I see you a lot in the forums. Had no idea you were on here. CocoaPuff310 (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

School started, so I have not been able to play Kongregate a lot lately :( ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 00:18, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Ah that sucks, I feel you bro. CocoaPuff310 (talk) 00:22, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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Gaither High School

May I enquire as to your basis for reverting my recent edit at the above page? John from Idegon (talk) 01:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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October 2015

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Gaither High School. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Gaither High School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:41, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Question.

What did i do wrong? because i didn't really do anything to anybody. AOzz101x (Talk)

You were insulting pikmin, not using neutral points of view, and broke about 5 different rules of Wikipedia.

2: Not using a Neutral Points of Views? what am i doing wrong that broke this? 3: what rules did i break? if you mean undid edits by IP users, i had reason why i have done that is because they didnt have any sources to backup stuff . i've follow everything else,

you can even look at my Contributions and no where on there have me insulting the user "Pigmin". or anything of me breaking the rules. Aozz101x (Talk)

THE ARTICLE ABOUT PIKMIN VIDEO GAMES ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 23:40, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

I didn't do anything wrong on Pikmin Video Game Article, what i did was undid IP's vandalism, that was it. how does undid IP of doing vandalism, break the rules or Natural of Points, or even an insult? i was trying help, not doing anything wrong at all. if i did something wrong, then i apologias for it. user:Aozz101x (Talk)

Reversal of edit

Hi, why was my edit on the Julian Shapiro article reverted? 2601:646:4101:A1D3:41:2015:EAFD:579F (talk) 01:28, 23 October 2015 (UTC) 

You took out WAY too much info. ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 03:20, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of 2016-17 NBA season

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A tag has been placed on 2016-17 NBA season requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organized event (tour, function, meeting, party, etc.), but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul W. Kruse

The article Paul W. Kruse has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. DanielRigal (talk) 00:31, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Fantasy genius

The article Fantasy genius has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of notability.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 17:37, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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