User talk:Speedystickd/Archive 1

Your edit to Queen's University

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Since you have already created this new account, I am afraid it will no longer be possible to rename User:E-mail your password to User:Speedystickd. I am sorry ...

anyway:

Welcome!

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Internal spamming

Speedystickd. What you are doing is disruptive to the Article Improvement Drive process. Do not leave another message of this type and please read Wikipedia:Spam. The responsible thing to do would be to return to all of those user talk pages and remove your messages, and I would encourage you to do this. ×Meegs 23:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Please do not spam user's usertalk pages. Brianski 00:12, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Queen's University

I can't ind its entry on WP:AID. Are you sure it's there? --Tjss(Talk) 23:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll take you up on that offer for help. I am supporting the nomination of David Ben-Gurion (2.10). Your vote in support of his nomination would be appreciated. Thanks. I look forward to working with you in the future. --Tjss(Talk) 23:51, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Spamming

I understand that you're very eager to improve the articles on topics that you care about (and that's a very good thing!), but canvasing is really very much frowned upon. Firstly, all of the articles listed on the ACID page should be evaluated only according to their merit, and not because somebody asked them to blindly vote for it. It's simply not fair to the contributors of all of the other articles listed there. Secondly, most Wikipedians have had a net presence for some time, and as such take a very dim view of unsolicied requests for much of anything (it's a very different matter if they're already involved in the project or othrwise would clearly have an interest). Honestly, we all get enough spam already. – ClockworkSoul 00:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

• Case in point regarding fairness: coffee is my candidate. Should I now counterspam to regain my previous ranking? What would happen to Wikipedia if we all did that? Food for thought. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 00:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I appreciate the vote for coffee. :) And no, you don't sound pompous at all. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 03:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
• Don't worry about it. As I wrote on the nominations page, I don't really care for the policies against spamming. I think that open discussion and communication are more important. --Tjss(Talk) 03:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Glad you're sticking around

I'm glad you're staying around, and I'm genuinely sorry that you're initial experience here wasn't very positive. Wikipedia is like sausage: it's disgusting to make, and it'll eventually destroy your heart – ClockworkSoul 21:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad as well, and don't let this experience persuade you to not nominate another article for WP:AID. And although soliciting votes is not prohibited (as others may think), it is perhaps not the best way to gain votes or make friends for that matter. What you could have done (and maybe can still do), is put a message on the talk page of a relevant portal or project, e.g. the Education project talk page or even the Universities project talk page. That way, you'll be able to target a far greater number of people, who already have an inclination for editing those types of articles.

I hope you will allow me to reinstate the nomination without the discussion, as it would be a shame to let those votes go to waste. Errabee 22:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I am happy that you have decided not to leave the project too. I apologize if my previous message was curt, but at the rate you were going, I was desperate to get you the message. Best of luck in your future editing. ×Meegs 23:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Your archive

Another advice, it would probably be better to move your talk page archive [[Talk:User talk:Speedystickd/Archive 1]] to this location: User talk:Speedystickd/Archive 1. That would create a link on the top of the archive back to your current talk page. Errabee 22:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Queens university...?

I see youve taken off the Queens university messages you left. Do you still want me to help?AeomMai (talk · contribs)