User talk:Willow177/Archive/June2007

Regarding your Message

Hi. I just recieved you message that says "Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to NYPD Auxiliary Police, you will be blocked from editing."

My question is what exactly did I delete. All I deleted was a template saying that I give the permission to use the picture as it was in the wrong place. It should have been with the picture rather than under the page.

Hi I have reviewed your case, and i agree that the warning was not justified and have taken it down. To avoid simlar problems in future, I would advise:

• Always leaving an edit summary to explain what you have done
  • Creating an account, as IP adresses that show up on recent changes to have deleted content normally mean vandalism

And finally:

• • • Always sign your talk page using 4 tildes (~~~~), to show your name and the date

Sorry about this problem, and I hope you will continue to provide contructive edits to Wikipedia. Feel free to contact me for any further advice. Thanks Willow177 20:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the past Message.

I would like to say thank you for removing the warning. I apologize for any problems my deletion may have caused and will use your advice for anymore deletions in the future.

Adoption

Hi, Willow177/Archive. I noticed you were offering adoption, so I'd like to offer you my services. If you accept, please respond on my talk page. Thanks, - G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 02:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Willow177

That whole hot 100 thing. I was editing my own stuff. I added a sectiona and then added it again on accident. So I deleted the second one. All of the corrections were for my section because I am a horrible typist. I was just fixing all of the errors I wrote. I was not vandalising. If you want to comment type me on my talk page.

Your first adoption task!

Congratulations, you are now adopted! What this means, in a nutshell, is that I should be your first point of call whenever you have a question or concern about something related to Wikipedia.

However, rather then just being an idle backbone of sorts, I’ve decided that the best way to introduce you to Wikipedia, and make you a better editor, is with a series of tasks, that will show you what different aspects of Wikipedia are like.

I’m about to give you your first task. It’s not hard (none of them will be). When you’ve done it, I’d like you to leave a message on my talk page, along with any information I ask for you during the task. Just as preliminary information, I’m going to be asking you for something called a “diff” throughout all of the tasks. A diff is a page like this one (a totally random example). It basically shows the difference between two different versions of an article. You can learn more about diffs here.

Now, the first task: Contributing to an article.

1. First of all, if you haven’t already, find an article about something that you’re interested in. If you have trouble deciding, then you may want to check out the portal on your chosen subject, and pick an article from there.
2. Once you have an article, we’re going to be making it better. There are many ways to improve an article, and I’m going to start with what I believe is the most simple, which is adding references.
3. Read through your chosen article, and find a statement that isn’t referenced - there is no citation at the end of the sentence. One of the main Wikipedia policies is that all statements must be verified.
4. When you’ve found an unverified, unsourced statement, your job is to add a reference to it. An easy way to do this is to search for the article’s subject on Google. It’s also good to add the word “article” or “news” to your search term (as well as anything specific to what you’re trying to cite).
5. When you’ve found a reference, go back to the article (it helps to have multiple windows/tabs open in your web browser), and click the button that says “edit” either at the top of the page, or next to the section header.
6. Find the text you’re trying to reference. When you’ve found it, add a citation using one of the many referencing styles available. The most commonly used is {{Cite web}}, but all of the styles should contain decent usage manuals to help you add them to articles.
7. When you have added a reference to the article, look down, below the edit box, and you’ll see a field for you to insert your edit summary. It’s a really good habit to insert one of these for every edit you make (and there’s an option in your preferences that can force you to do that). For this edit, add a summary that says something along the lines of “citing sources.”
8. Find the diff for the edit you just made, and post a link to the diff on my talk page. Remember to either add a comment in the current thread (where you responded to my adoption offer) or in a new thread (by clicking the “+” at the top of the page).

When you have left the diff on my talk page, I’ll take a look at it, then come back here with some more comments. Good luck! - G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 04:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow, nice work. I had a look at your edits and you're actually quite experienced in vandal fighting, so I'm not sure if you need to do the next task....ah, what the heck. Here it is:

Task 2

User:G1ggy/Adopt/2- G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 22:30, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

That was all done well, no problems. I noticed afterwards that the user was continously removing content from that page, so I've given him a final warning and reported him to AIV (and he just got blocked). Task 3 coming soon, - G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 22:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Adoption Task 3!

User:G1ggy/Adopt/3- G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 22:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Task 4

User:G1ggy/Adopt/4G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 23:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Nice, nice. I'm going away on break for two weeks, so I'm not going to give you the next task now. You're welcome to seek another adopter, or whatever. Otherwise, I'll be back before you know it! Nice working with you :D G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 00:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)