LdyDragonfly

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Howdy

I see you're creating a lot of stub articles. That's fine but a little more information would be most helpful. I have gone around and restubbed them and added a template to each talk page associated with the article. It's best to include at least one external link and a bit more info if possible. Thanks!--MONGO 04:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I took the liberty of adding some that may help you see a basic format for these types of areas...also known as protected areas. One article you started is Alexander Springs Wilderness and I added a category at the bottom, some links, a little more text and what is known as an infobox, which helps delineate where the protected area is located...anyway, if you have any questions, never hesitate and I'll do what I can to help.--MONGO 07:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I use date accessed sometimes...a link for citation templates is here:[1] and it covers citations from the web, books, the media, journals, etc. I used access date on a number of articles, but it's not mandatory...in fact, you don't have to have the citation templates at all, unless you are trying to create a Featured article and this is no small amount of work, I assure you...for examples, I started two articles that became featured...Retreat of glaciers since 1850 and Shoshone National Forest...I am currently having another article I made improvements to listed at peer review...namely Glacier National Park (US). The key to this stuff is that all anyone has to do to gain the respect of the community is exactly what you are doing...namely, turning redlined links into blue ones, and helping to fill the void. So don't feel pressured into doing more than you either have time or interest in doing.--MONGO 07:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

It's info overload probably, sorry about that...I can't see how you have stepped on anyone's toes at all...you can use embedded links to link external articles that are used as references, you don't have to use the templates unless you're trying to get an article to featured article status. As an example...if you are linking to a wikipedia article (an internal link) type: [[Shoshone National Forest|Shoshone]] and that will show up as: Shoshone. Here we use two brackets and a breakline. For external links add the URL for the website by copying and pasting it into the article text, add a bracket on either side of the link, then hit the space bar between the URL and whatever else you want to type, perhaps a titile of the website is best...example: [http://www.fireplan.gov/overview/whatis.html National Fire Plan] which shows up as: National Fire Plan. These are imbedded links and are fine to use...you don't have to use the citation templates to cite references. Here, have a look at Bob Marshall Wilderness...hit the edit this page tab and scroll down to the external links section and you'll see how the embedded links work. It takes time to get used to this place...I've been around for a year and a half and have 16,000 edits, but I still do not know this place completely...hopefully I have been some help here...any questions, don't hesitate to ask.--MONGO 01:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

oh duh...I must be stupid...you already know how to do the embedded links...[2]...so I guess I need to know what you mean be "messing up" a template, as I see no evidence you have done this...anyway, happy editing!--MONGO 01:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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