User talk:Goldcoastrailroad

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

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

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! --ais523 18:03, 8 February 2007 (U T C)

New contributor's help page question[edit]

I've replied to your question here on the New vontributor's help page. --ais523 18:03, 8 February 2007 (U T C)

Let me Add a hearty Welcome[edit]

Wikipedia editing can be an daunting learning curve at first, and there are those of us who spend a fair amount of time trying to ease newcomers into the Online community, a society, with norms, expectations, and sometimes dismaying quasi-abuse of a casual contributor. The Wikipedia Welcoming committee ((WP:Wc / WP:WC) is a group who lend the newcomer a hand, as well as greet them. While I am overbooked for the next couple of weeks, in my foreseeable future, I'm primarily doing administrative stuff and would be glad for a break, to help take raw information and turn it into a new article.

I'm a long time railway fan and model railroader, so I can offer a bit more than just empathy! <g> One thing to look at, is WP:COI, for example. As an party with an interest, so to speak, it is properly not your place to generate such an article as you seek. OTOH, you wouldn't be the first 'insider' I have assisted in getting something acceptable together, including a few with more direct financial stake than your own. If the topic is worthy of an article, that we can do! Sounds like this one qualifies in several ways. Pics will perhaps be an issue, as public domain licensing or a WP:GFDL, preferably or another I won't go into now, will be necessary. Images have got to have free license under new policies, alas.

Contact me on my talk or email me at the addy posted at the top of that page, and let me give you a hand. I have a suspicion you neither have the time, and aren't primarily interested in general editing, which is also okay... I wasn't either at first. But you eat one peanut, and it wants company, so you eat a second..., and it tastes good, etcetera! <g> I'm also quite a bit older than the average editor here, so have a lot more patience in many ways. Best regards // FrankB 05:36, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]