Barliman Butterbur

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Hello Barliman Butterbur, and Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy this place and decide to stay. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes, like this: (~~~~). This will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field, as this will help other users to know what you changed and why you changed it. Below are some (rather boring, but) useful links to help you learn your way around the encyclopedia as well as to help you become a successful editor. I hope you will like editing here, and I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Good luck, and happy editing! J.delanoygabsadds 19:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

References

Please do not just add a copy/paste "Reference" to dozens of articles as you did today when the reference was not actually used anywhere in the article. The reference section is not a place to store "possible" references. Your flooding articles with the Beck Animation guide gives the appearance of advertising as the book was not used for any of those articles. I have reverted all of your additions. If you want to actually use the guide to help improve the article, please learn how to do so properly and actually add content to the article that is sourced by the book. If you aren't sure how, leave a note on the talk page of the article noting that the book may have useful information.-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 00:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Read through WP:CITE, WP:RS and WP:V. Those policies and guidelines will give you a better handle on what we use references and sources for. What you've been doing by just adding the same link over and over to many different articles merely looks like WP:LINKSPAM. Dreadstar † 01:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Dreadstar is right, you're confusing the appearance of what you did with the validity of the source itself. You can either put the ref in "Suggested reading" or "Further reading" or use it as an actual ref. If you want, I can show you how to do that if you have trouble figuring out how to do it. And no, wiki is not full of power hungry teens, but we do have some. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:27, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry your start at wiki is off to a poor start. I agree the people who you were dealing with could have handled it better. If you want, I'm willing to help you. — Rlevse • Talk • 17:51, 16 September 2008 (UTC)