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Culver City, California

Thanks for adding Bill Monning to Culver City, California. I removed the source you added because Wikipedia itself cannot be used as a source in other Wikipedia articles. The reason for this is to avoid circular sourcing. If you have any questions feel free to leave a message on my talk page, or ping me here by adding "{{ping|Magnolia677}}" to your message. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:34, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

@Magnolia677: Thanks, Magnolia677! I replaced the circular reference with the one we used on the Monning page. I hope that will be OK. I'm VERY new at this :-) 1stCoastal (talk) 22:05, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Looks great! Magnolia677 (talk) 00:07, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

@Magnolia677: Thanks! 1stCoastal (talk) 01:17, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion about Warren Church

Hello, 1stCoastal,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Warren Church should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warren Church .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:32, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

@Onel5969: Thanks for the heads up! 1stCoastal (talk) 05:41, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:Oshwah ‎. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Note: if this was involuntary, you may have edited an old version of the page. Making sure to click the top "talk" button again or "new section", if previously browsing the history, should prevent this. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 23:47, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

@PaleoNeonate:@Chris troutman: Well, that was a big OOOPS! Sorry. I have been following a conversation I've been having with Oshwah but the last time I went back to his page, the section with our convo was gone. This happened once before and I managed to find it in some archive and revive it. I thought that was what I was doing this time :-(. If you read back through the thread, you will see that I've asked for advice a few times and Oshwah was too busy to respond right away.

There are a number of things in Wikipedia that are a bit opaque, if you know what I mean. I'm really new at this and it would be helpful if Wikipedia itself had an easily searchable help area. In other words, not all spread out on different pages with names that don't mean anything to newbies like me :-). (I have much better luck finding things by just using Google - why can't Wikipedia have its own "Google"?).

Anyway, how do I easily find an older thread on a talk page? Thanks!1stCoastal (talk) 02:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Depending on the talk page, it may have archives which are searchable and browsable (links to those archive pages are usually around the top of the page). If it doesn't have archives and the editor instead deletes old conversations only, it can only be retrieved through the article history itself I think. Hmm maybe something which might help to find a number of those policy and guideline pages would be the template at the bottom of WP:PAG. For technical information most pages also have similar navigation templates at the bottom, like at the bottom of WP:TRANS. Some users like to transclude those navigation templates on one of their user pages for fast reference (by using i.e. {{Wikipedia_help_pages}}, {{Wikipedia_technical_help}}, {{Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines}}). Wikipedia is of course a large project and there's a lot to learn at first. Places like The help desk, The tea house or The village pump are also useful to ask for help. I hope this helps a bit, —PaleoNeonate – 03:00, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Adding: in the case of archives or pages in the history, if you want to reopen an old thread it is best to start a new fresh section and to if necessary copy content from the old discussion there. Editing archives is discouraged and editing old revisions of a page would result in accidents like happened above. —PaleoNeonate – 03:02, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

@PaleoNeonate: OK, thanks again. I'll go look and see if I can find the archive link. Thanks also for the suggestions! 1stCoastal (talk) 04:08, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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