Hi, I know that it's a little late for a welcome, but better late than never. I was welcomed with the following table and have found it extremely useful, so much so that I've used it on my user page.
Welcome to Wikipedia!!! edit
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- It's a pleasure. The warm welcome, though genuine, is easily provided by a template {{subst:User:Kukini/Welcome}}. If you ever feel the urge to welcome other users then I'd encourage you to use it. In addition, there are many other templates available here. I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian, you're definitely off to a good start. Regards LittleOldMe 11:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Messages to vandals edit
Just a quick question, when I am reverting vandalism and such - if the person has no talk page, what would the appropritate action to take (as to how to warn them)? Thanks In Advance, DuO 11:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- There is no hard and fast rule, but the guidelines encourage you to be nice. For IP addresses that vandalise I generally use the template {{subst:Welcomeip}} followed by a {{subst:test1}} or a {{subst:test1a}} warning message. In general, registered users do not tend to vandalise, but they often add biased material, which once removed, the {{subst:welcomenpov}} is ideal for. There is also one for unsuitable external links {{subst:Welcomespam}}.
- There is quite a lot of information on the subject, so don't feel overwhelmed, start with the few that I have provided and as you become more comfortable you can expand your tool set.
- Regards
- LittleOldMe 12:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
DREAM.5 edit
Hi, I don't want to get into a edit war about something so silly, so I'll just take it up with you here :) I understand what you're saying, but without fight descriptions the MMA-event-articles will never turn into anything but stubs/startclasses. Why discourage wanting to expand articles? If we just intented to have the results it might as well just be in table. If you still don't agree, could we find a compromise by having the descriptions in another part of the article (although, I find that somewhat unnecessary). What do you think? (Just reply here btw, so we keep it on the same page in case others are interested). Thanks! --aktsu (t / c) 08:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- I understand what you're saying but the policy with MMA event related articles has been to keep it minimalistic and only convey the most relivant information (the results). Events that have previously been formatted with full descriptions have all been changed to reflect the format I used - you can continue to do it your way, although it will be changed by someone else in order to fit the expected format of MMA event results. Regards DuO (talk) 08:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- Do you have any links to that? I remember reading something about it, but from what I gathered the consensus was that there were no reason discouraging descriptions (still I couldn't find it again, so I might be wrong). --aktsu (t / c) 08:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- Just a further note - you can have the freedom to format the article however you wish, I'm not going to interfere with the formatting of DREAM.5 any more. Regards DuO (talk) 08:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC) - Tell you what, I'll take it to WT:MMA and we'll let them decide. No hard feelings btw :) --aktsu (t / c) 08:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- The format I was going from was from the project's MMA Event Pages Format. Regards DuO (talk) 08:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- Just a further note - you can have the freedom to format the article however you wish, I'm not going to interfere with the formatting of DREAM.5 any more. Regards DuO (talk) 08:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC) - Tell you what, I'll take it to WT:MMA and we'll let them decide. No hard feelings btw :) --aktsu (t / c) 08:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- Do you have any links to that? I remember reading something about it, but from what I gathered the consensus was that there were no reason discouraging descriptions (still I couldn't find it again, so I might be wrong). --aktsu (t / c) 08:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)