Lazerboy67

Welcome!

Hello, Lazerboy67, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Jean-Marc Grava, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Karl 334 ^{☞TALK to ME ☜} 15:58, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jean-Marc Grava

The article Jean-Marc Grava has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Karl 334 ^{☞TALK to ME ☜} 15:58, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Lazerboy67. You have new messages at Karl 334's talk page.
Message added 16:18, 27 April 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia, as you did in Estha Essombe, makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please be sure to add a space after the period at the end of a sentence. Also your "references" section should be "External links" (not the first letter being capitalized). Eeekster (talk) 02:14, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ronald Servius

The article Ronald Servius has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Winner 42 Talk to me! 19:47, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "Ayodele Ikuesan"

A page you created, Ayodele Ikuesan, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how they are important or significant, and thus why they should be included in an encyclopedia. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and the guidelines for biographies in particular.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   08:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pierre-Marie Hilaire

The article Pierre-Marie Hilaire has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one.  CrossTempleJay  talk 23:25, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Article fixes

Wow! You've been very busy. I patrolled your article on Valérie Jean-Charles and noticed there were several things we typically look for in an article. Since you are clearly here to help improve the encyclopedia, I thought I would bring these "behind the scenes" things to your attention. To see what I've done go to the article, click Edit, then look at what has been typed. You can then click Cancel rather than Save Page. I personally keep a wordpad document on the computer with some of the common wikitext I use to copy/paste. Some people have them hidden on their userpage, and I'm sure there are other solutions so you can refer back if needed. Here goes:

• References should always use the {{'s and citeweb or citebook. There is a drop down box on the editing toolbar that says Cite, you can then fill in the blanks. This allows people to verify information at a later date even if the website becomes defunt. See Wikipedia:Link rot for more info if you like
  • Inline citations are the expected practice. Place the citeweb right after the statement of fact. Then under the References section type {{Reflist}}
• Biographies should always include [[Category:XXXX births]] where the X's are the year. And also [[Category:XXXX deaths]] if not living. If alive, they should also be marked [[Category:Living people]]. In the case where you can't find their year of birth or death use [[Category:Year of birth missing]]
• Persondata should always be added below the references and above the DEFAULTSORT
• Sections should always have the first word capitalized, so References rather than references
• The talk page should have WikiProjects added. Always WikiProject Biography if it is on a person. Often you also add the country either where they are from, or where they live. And then there is usually a project for why they are famous, ie WikiProject Olympics

P.S. If you weren't aware of WikiProjects you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject France to see what they are about.

Doing all of these things will make your article more polished and leave less work for other editors later. Please take some time to add these pieces to the other articles you have created. I will also try to work through part of them. Please feel free to ask me any questions, whether you want to know how to do something, or why it is done a certain way. And thanks again for all your contributions! --Tbennert (talk) 02:43, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Bravo

What a good idea of translating some article about french basketball players ! Hegor (talk) 11:38, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Ansoumane Fofana for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ansoumane Fofana is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ansoumane Fofana until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

— Mikehawk10 (talk) 04:51, 26 September 2021 (UTC)