Jjm10

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Sandbox and stuff

Good job with how you took this to DRV. I know the process seems cumbersome here at Wikipedia sometimes, but if you can patiently follow the process, good things usually result. I've dropped a comment over at the review, but also wanted to follow up here with a suggestion. There are folks who patrol the New Pages section to weed out the crap that is flooding this encyclopdia (mulitple pages per minute are created around here...kind of hard to imagine until you watch it unfold), so sometimes the start of a page gets tagged when it shouldn't. How I do it, and how I'd suggest you do it, is to create your own sandbox (you can see mine if you go to my userpage), where you can build and tweak and no one will bother you. Once it's done, then you can go live with it, and it'll be in a form that no one will question. To create a sandbox, you go into edit mode on your user page, and create a link that looks like this: [[User:Jjm10/Sandbox]], then save the page. This will create a redlink on your user page. You then click on that redlink and start editing. It's that simple. When it's time to go live, you can either use the move function to move it all over to the new article, or you can create the title and then paste it over. Anyway, keep me posted if you need any help. AKRadecki 02:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I would echo what AK's saying.. building future articles in your sandbox (if you look in User:Lar/ToDo you'll see loads of half finished stuff) and moving them over is a good way to make sure that when they hit articlespace they are tight, and well sourced, and encyclopedic. It also preserves their eligibility for WP:DYK which you should look into if you can, it's a fun thing to get your article mentioned on the front page! If I can be of help with this article do call on me. I love small amusement parks. ++Lar: t/c 12:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)