Welcome! edit

 
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Zitelli67! I am Pharaoh of the Wizards and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Strasbourg edit

My best advice would be to look at football teams which are either featured articles or good articles. Otherwise, I would suggest getting a peer review to get some advice from other editors, and seeking the help of other editors at the football project via its talk page. Peanut4 (talk) 00:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

3RR warning edit

 
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Is this the Gestapo? I have been explainig myself on the talk page! Why don't you just trust people? This work has taken me a lot of time... Why would I introduce incorrect data? Zitelli67 (talk) 16:43, 30 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia policies are non-negotiable. Once you have references for each statement in the article, you can remove the tag, and it will be fine. If you want to work on the page without meeting Wikipedia policies, until the work is done, you can create the page on your own user-subpage, and then move it to article space once it is done. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 16:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
I did just that (creating it on my subpage and then moving it when done)! Of course it is never perfect and indeed I moved it after a certain level just to get useful comments and help... Seems that I get exactly the contrary with Gestapo geeks like you putting stupid banners. I really take it as a lack of repsect and comprehension for the work I have been doing. Quite discouraging I must admit. Zitelli67 (talk) 16:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Image copyright problem with File:Andrébord.jpg edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Invite to the African Destubathon edit

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

File source problem with File:Oscarheisserer.jpg edit

 

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