Welcome! edit

Hello, Stayhomegal, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:49, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Some bubble tea for you! edit

  Welcome to Wikipedia! Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 10:26, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Feedback requested edit

Hi, Stayhomegal. What can I help you with? Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:22, 2 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chris Finley (April 5) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:  The comment they left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Robert McClenon (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply


 
Hello! Stayhomegal, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (April 5) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:  The comment they left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Robert McClenon (talk) 01:27, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your article Storme Webber edit

Hello there Stayhomegal! I'm concerned that Storme Webber may not meet notability guidelines here on Wikipedia. Wikipedia notability guidelines call for 3-5 independent sources and reliable sources that discuss a subject comprehensively in order to establish notability. As it stands, the article does not support notability for Webber and my Google searches don't really find much better. I'd like to offer an opportunity here. I can convert this to a Draft for you if you like, that way you will have more time to establish any potential notability better than my Google searches can. I'm hoping that you will respond quickly before another editor nominates it for deletion. Please see our guidelines for reliable sources and notability for people in general or notability for authors to see if she qualifies for something I'm missing here. Thanks for your time and best wishes. Chrisw80 (talk) 02:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Storme Webber edit

 

A tag has been placed on Storme Webber requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 21:52, 6 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Stayhomegal! Thank you so much! I will keep going on my wiki page. And good luck to your wiki project! Anzi Dong (talk) 22:24, 6 April 2016 (UTC)AnziReply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) (April 10) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 333-blue was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
333-blue 05:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

AfC notification: Draft:Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) has a new comment edit

 
I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS). Thanks! Ringbang (talk) 16:07, 21 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

BAAITS edit

Hi, Stayhomegal. I've added some possible sources to your draft article on BAAITS. I don't know if pints work in the draft namespace, so I figured I'd let you and MatthewVanitas know here. I think you could integrate some of those into the article and they may, even without being integrated, serve as evidence that the topic is notable. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:29, 21 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (April 25) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
SwisterTwister talk 03:52, 25 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

May 2016 edit

  Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Will Roscoe, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:39, 1 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Gay American Indians (GAI) article edit

Hello, thanks for writing this! Looks pretty good. Some thoughts:

  1.  A bit on the organisation's recent or latest activity would be nice. Is it still active? Moribund? The local newspaper says it's still sort of active so I was a bit surprised I couldn't find contact details. If it is moribund it would be nice to discuss what replaced it.
  2. It would be nice to know if this organisation was ever active outside California.
  3. Careful with "currently" - low-traffic Wikipedia pages can not get updated for years. I've added the quote and date so people know when this comment dated to.

Let me know if any thoughts. Blythwood (talk) 01:27, 2 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Gay american indians edit

Hello Stayhomegal,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Gay american indians for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ~Mohammad Hossain~ 03:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Help me! edit

Please help me with...the visual editor. i no longer see the edit tab, only edit source! i am using firefox.

Stayhomegal (talk) 05:38, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Strange. The page seems fine to me. Perhaps try asking for help at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)? That's more for technical issues I think. Check the editing section on your preferences page as it suggests at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/FAQ. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:52, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
Try this. Go to your preferences, click on editing and look at the drop-down box at the bottom. You should change it to "Always give me the visual editor if possible" Did that solve it? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
YES!!! thank you! it was set to remember my last editor so every time i go onto a talk page or something i lose it thank you!!Stayhomegal (talk) 06:04, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Chris Finley edit

 

Hello, Stayhomegal. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Chris Finley".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. 1989 (talk) 16:16, 1 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

March 2017 edit

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Hillary Clinton. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. General Ization Talk 15:12, 12 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Barack Obama, you may be blocked from editing. General Ization Talk 15:13, 12 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

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March 2017 edit

  Please stop your disruptive behaviour. It appears you are purposefully harassing another editor. Wikipedia aims to provide a safe environment for its collaborators, and harassing other users, as you did on User talk:General Ization, potentially compromises that safe environment. If you continue behaving like this, you may be blocked from editing. NeilN talk to me 03:28, 16 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Wendell Lipscomb edit

 

Hello, Stayhomegal. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Wendell Lipscomb".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 11:11, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Stalin's Dictatorship edit

I noticed that you deleted the reference to Stalin as a dictator, remarking in the edit summary that he "was no dictator." There's been a discussion in progress for several days at the Stalin talk page about how to refer to him in the lede. If you have RS backing up your opinion, feel free to join the discussion. But until then, please don't change the lede. Thanks. Scaleshombre (talk) 07:39, 4 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

July 2017 edit

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Draft:Storme Webber concern edit

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June 2018 edit

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia. Disruption including removing sourced content Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League, adding controversial content without sources, generally making edits which are reverted by others, disruption, and other issues on this talk. Widefox; talk 07:58, 26 June 2018 (UTC)Reply