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User talk:Gary Kirk/Archive 1
Wiki markup for datesYou are formatting dates incorrectly. Please read Help:Editing and learn how to wikify dates properly and why this is important. Uncle G 17:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Edits to Mariah CareyWelcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for the contributions! We're always happy to have new Wikipedians with a serious interest in improving articles! As you can see, we're also very keen on maintaining a neutral point of view (or NPOV) in all articles. Unfortunately, some of your edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's NPOV policy, and have been reverted. There's a great article about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. We thank you for your interest in helping Wikipedia to be well-rounded in its presentation of controversial subjects, and look forward to being able to fully incorporate your contributions! Extraordinary Machine 18:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I think you can help a lot of people to change their minds if you include her TV work in the article. BTW, thanks for the comment. I'm glad to hear at least someone thinks I've been sensible at some point today. - Mgm|(talk) 20:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Big Brother houseThanks for telling me where the UK Big Brother house is. I guess not everybody knows, fans like FireFox and people on the the other side of the world (me) have no idea.--Commander Keane 20:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Jk and JoelHey, I did look at the edits, I was the one who reverted the vandalism and then edited your post. I should have been clearer as to why I removed that tag. Anyway, I'm sorry for the confusion. Have a good one. - oneofmanysteves Image:Swearing.pngHello. I made what I feel is a better image than your Image:Swear.JPG. It's also in a more appropriate file format. I'm adding Image:Swearing.png to the user warning template {{obscene}}. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 08:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Harry Potter charactersDear Gary, It's okay to create articles for fictional characters, but please make clear that they are fictional. Believe it or not, there will be people accessing this encyclopedia who don't know anything about the Harry Potter series. Deb 12:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
JhajhariaThank you for trying to be helpful by marking Jhajharia for speedy deletion on the grounds that it was empty. However, although the article certainly was short, it was by no means empty - it said that Jhajharia is one of the gotras of the Jat people in the Jhunjunu district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. In fact, it was listed as part of the category "Gotras of Jats" (which, I will concede, isn't as well-named as it could be); this should have been an indicator as to what it is. There's a significant difference between an empty article and a stub article; what I would have done (and, in fact, what I did do, after removing the speedy notice) was add a link to the article gotra. No harm done, and I know you meant well - just be a bit more careful henceforth, okay? DS 18:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC) Image Tagging Image:Picture of school.jpgThanks for uploading Image:Picture of school.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or {{fairuse}}. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. --Pak21 11:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Testing my new sigYeah I know it's basic. Gary Kirk 21:55, 20 December 2005 (UTC) --Gary Kirk (talk) 16:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC) re crossguardNow redirects to better article. thanks for the heads up R SpeedyPlease, realize that you're misusing the {{nonsense}} and {{empty}} tags. If you tag an article as needing context, then this should mean that you think it is not nonsense, and does not need to be speedily deleted. Similarly, although I know full well that the {{empty}} tag doesn't necessarily mean an article is literally empty, you have to better distinguish between an article which doesn't even have the bare minimum of information necessary to have an understanding of what sort of thing the title refers to, and an article which does. I know you mean well, but in the past few days you've listed at least two articles for speedy deletion that didn't merit that treatment. Possibly more, but those are the ones that I caught and salvaged. Be more careful, okay? DS 13:42, 21 December 2005 (UTC) rv on deora why?Shivraj Singh 14:32, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
-Thanks. --Gary Kirk (talk) 18:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thanks for the tipswhat would be great would be an editing page short form, like a one page printable tips on editing, so that i wouldn't have to read a whole big thing. Does that exist? JJ
To start with, if you haven't already, read WP:HEP. Hope that helps! ;-) --Gary Kirk (talk) 18:38, 25 December 2005 (UTC) One more quick thingI learn better by trying. How can I be one of those wikipedians who monitors new content? Like, go throw new changes and make corrections? Thanks for the link, it was useful! JamieJones 04:00, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
hey garyjamie here...kinda building my homepage based on yours...so i can just go ahead and create my own pages like you did? Like, JamieJones/to_do, JamieJones/whatever, just like that? No one minds? JamieJones 16:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Subst
— FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 17:28, Dec. 29, 2005 Because you are leaving a message that is intended to retain the same meaning regardless of later changes to the template, for one. This can result in confusion for whoever (usually a vandal, but sometimes just a newbie user) who reads it. Also, if the warning text in a template is modified, and a lot of pages use the template in the "live" form, the recaching of numerous talk pages causes server lag. So, generally all templates intended to replace a manually written message to another user should be subst'ed. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 17:40, Dec. 29, 2005 imagescan you delete all the images that i've uploded except for the one called doctornew05.jpg /
Re: HP project userboxesSigh. It's the whole snafu with Kelly Martin and the fair use image deletion stuff. I don't know what we can and can't use. If I'm not mistaken, Evilphoenix created the templates originally; try asking him. Hermione1980 17:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Hello Gary |
