User talk:Ja Godfrey

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ja Godfrey, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for William Dean Howells. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Aristophanes68 (talk) 03:57, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Anne Ruggles Gere has been accepted

Anne Ruggles Gere, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

asilvering (talk) 02:30, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Copy-pasting text into a draft

Hi, thanks for writing up Anne Ruggles Gere! I see that you first created this article in your user sandbox, and then copied it over to a new draft article. I don't think there's a rule against this per se, but it's much better to either create the page in draftspace in the first place, or create it in your userspace (as you did) and then use the page move function to move it to draftspace/articlespace when you're ready. This way, you preserve your edit history and all your edit summaries. -- asilvering (talk) 02:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing the article, and thank you for this excellent suggestion. In the future, I will use the move function to move from my sandbox to a draftspace/articlespace. Ja Godfrey (talk) 18:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Your first article

Congratulations, Ja Godfrey, on Anne Ruggles Gere. If you intend to write more biographies of women, you might find it useful to become a member of WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to chip away at the gender gap on Wikipedia. Another option for creating new drafts is to use your user space, naming the draft User:Ja Godfrey/article title. This will leave your sandbox free for other things and will allow you to work on as many new drafts as you like. It will also make it easier for other contributors to see what you are working on. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:52, 17 April 2023 (UTC)