User talk:ZLEA/Archive 1

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, ZLEA, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  - Ahunt (talk) 21:12, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

ZLEA, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi ZLEA! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like I JethroBT (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:04, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Signing your posts

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
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This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. MilborneOne (talk) 18:08, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Talk:Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 18:46, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft

Thanks for signing up for this project. It is a very busy and active project with lots going on and we can always use more help and especially a fresh set of eyes. If you haven't done so already you might want to add Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft to your watch list as this is where much of the background discussion occurs. You may also want to watch Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft) as this is where newly created articles get listed for peer review. Having a look over these new articles is a great way to get a feel for how things are done on the project and also most new articles need reviewing anyway. If you have any questions you can leave me a note or post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft, either way you will get a quick response. - Ahunt (talk) 16:21, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to National September 11 Memorial & Museum, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. David J Johnson (talk) 11:37, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguations and piping

Per WP:DABSTYLE, please don't pipe on DAB pages. I unpiped your edit on P11. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 23:46, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Stop it, please

Please stop spamming other editors with invitations to visit your User page. General Ization ^Talk 21:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant no harm. - ZLEA 21:17, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

You'd probably be better off joining an already-existing group such as the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit. - BilCat (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Signing and edit summaries

Please take some time to learn how to sign your messages and you need to add edit summaries when you leave messages, it helps others to understand what you are trying to do. It explains how to sign and it has a big box at the bottom to write why you are making a change, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 23:17, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

I see you still are not signing your posts or providing edit summaries ZLEA if you dont understand the instructions on how to do it then please ask. Remember other users need to know why you are making changes, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 20:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see this message. - ZLEA (talk) 20:04, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Captions

ZLEA, most of the periods you've been adding to photo captions are incorrect. Per WP:CAPFRAG: "Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely sentence fragments, which should not end with a period." Thanks for understanding. - BilCat (talk) 05:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks, but have you ever noticed how much punctuation was missing? - ZLEA (talk) 05:41, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Please stop. For example, from the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender page, "Curtiss CW-24B at Langley wind tunnel" is a sentence fragment, not a complete sentence. If you don't understand the difference between a sentence fragment and a complete sentence, then please don't add any more periods. - BilCat (talk)

WP:challenge

Please note, per WP:CHALLENGE: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source."

Also: "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution."

Thanks. --2604:2000:E016:A700:38EE:F08:8153:25B (talk) 21:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to MILHIST

Hello and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• The announcement and open task box is updated very frequently. You can watchlist it if you are interested, or you can add it directly to your user page by copying the following: {{WPMILHIST Announcements}}.
• Important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has several departments, which handle article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, writing contests, and article logistics.
• We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, periods, and conflicts.
• We've developed a set of guidelines that cover article structure and content, template use, categorization, and many other issues of interest.
• If you're looking for something to work on, there are many articles that need attention, as well as a number of review alerts.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask any of the project coordinators or any other experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome, and we are looking forward to seeing you around! Anotherclown (talk) 00:24, 7 February 2017 (UTC)