Kanadajin

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Welcome, Kanadajin!

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Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun! – ClockworkSoul 04:27, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words about my user page. :)

Regarding your questions: the first thing about the gibberish was apparently just somebody playing around... It wasn't the sandbox, actually, but instead somebody had created a template. As an administrator, I was able to just delete it, but a regular user would have to post it on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. The second question, FARC stands for "featured article removal candidate". As you probably know, a small subset of our articles are designated as "featured", indicating that they represent some of our best work. Over time, however, the quality of articles may decay, and such an article might me defeatured. I hope that I answered your questions. :) Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 17:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)