Welcome! edit

Howdy, Louis reed, Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions, you seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! If you need help on how to title new articles see the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. For general questions goto Wikipedia:Help or the FAQ, if you can't find your answer there check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. If you have any more questions after that, feel free to ask me directly on my user talk page.


Additional tips edit

Here's some extra tips to help you get around in the 'pedia!

Be Bold!! edit

You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round.  

Joe I 06:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:Lagrave field aerial 04-Jul-2003.jpg edit

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Orphaned non-free image File:CowboysNS-Day.png edit

 

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Fischer's documentary list edit

Hi, why do you feel documentaries about the chess player Bobby Fischer from the perspective of chess do not belong in the +cat chess films? IQ125 (talk) 17:27, 13 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

I don't think a category belongs in a category in this manner, Wikipedia lists the category as a film which is incorrect. There is probably a better way to link the categories.Louis Reed (talk) 20:34, 13 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

This is an article, not a category. IQ125 (talk) 00:03, 14 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ok....it is an article, but the article doesn't belong in the list of movies which is what happens when the category is added to the article.Louis Reed (talk) 00:23, 14 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Lammes Candy edit

 

The article Lammes Candy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

fails WP:NCORP

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I added another external link, and linked to about six other Wikipedia articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Louis Reed (talkcontribs) 23:10, 16 November 2018 (UTC)Reply