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Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.
Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.
Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.
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Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.
I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. -- Ronz ( talk) 17:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to
Draft:Adrian Richard Lewis, from its old location at
User:Roccie/sandbox. This has been done because the
Draft namespace is the preferred location for
Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on
my talk page. Thank you.
Sulfurboy (
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01:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Roccie!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
GoingBatty (
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02:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for the feedback. I will edit with better/neutral sources and get rid of the external links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 23 May 2020 (UTC) Have made some changes. Please take a look when you have an opportunity. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs) 15:49, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Roccie! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
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Absolutely- expanding the ProQuest sources now. Thank you. Roccie ;) 00:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)Roccie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
DGG ( talk ) 02:44, 10 August 2020 (UTC)You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.
The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.
The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.
More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.
Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.
Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.
If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.
Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.
I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. -- Ronz ( talk) 17:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to
Draft:Adrian Richard Lewis, from its old location at
User:Roccie/sandbox. This has been done because the
Draft namespace is the preferred location for
Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on
my talk page. Thank you.
Sulfurboy (
talk)
01:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Roccie!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
GoingBatty (
talk)
02:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for the feedback. I will edit with better/neutral sources and get rid of the external links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs) 04:00, 23 May 2020 (UTC) Have made some changes. Please take a look when you have an opportunity. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs) 15:49, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Roccie! The thread you created at the
Wikipedia:Teahouse,
|
Absolutely- expanding the ProQuest sources now. Thank you. Roccie ;) 00:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)Roccie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccie ( talk • contribs)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
DGG ( talk ) 02:44, 10 August 2020 (UTC)You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.
The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.
The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.
More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)