CholaLife

Spam in Ask A Chola

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Reference Tags

It looks like you've forgotten to close some of the wiki tags. Let me take a look at it and see what I can do for you. In the meantime I'm going to paste a welcome template below so that you can get easy access to helpful editing links.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 07:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome!

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Chola References

I've fixed the code on the Chola page for you. If you need any further help, just let me know.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 07:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Torchwood, what happened? I woke up this morning and the whole page is gone? What do I do? Where can I find the last version that you corrected, to use for the next attempt? This is so frustrating. CholaLife (talk) 19:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey Chola, send a message to User talk:Athaenara and ask the administrator to allow you to have the code to work on privately. Tell the administrator that you want to recreate the page in your userspace at User:CholaLife/cholatest If the admin agrees I'll help to coach you into making a better article. I can't guarantee that it will ultimately lead to a page that won't be deleted, but I'll help you give it a shot.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 22:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Torchwood, I got the code from RHaworth by email and I just left a message for Athaenara asking if it would be okay if I recreate the page on /cholatest. Thank you so much for coaching me to make this better. Even if they don't allow it, I will at least learn something, I guess. CholaLife (talk) 06:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I received the message, forwarded here:

Hello, Athaenara, I was wondering if it would be okay if I recreate the Ask A Chola article in my userspace at User:CholaLife/cholatest while I am figuring out how to meet the Wikipedia guidelines. I am new on here and I thank you in advance for your patience while I figure out how things work. CholaLife (talk) 06:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I restored the content to the specified page as requested. I added {{refimprove}}, {{primarysources}}, and {{uncategorized}} templates. Good luck! — Athaenara ✉ 07:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey Chola, that's great. I'm a little busy today but when you make some changes just message me on my page and I'll try to get involved as best I can.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 18:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)