User talk:Gregoryptm
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
Dear Gregoryptm:
I am wicked confused. Is this my User page? I have no idea how to create one. Someone just sent me internal mail that i could have one but I have no idea why I'd want one, except to maybe say:
1) I am currently working on two projects inside wikipedia.
a) One is an entry for Mark Pesce whom I believe meets the "standards" for fame and notoriety. Mark has been involved in the Internet as a contributing technologist and scholar since at least the middle 1980s. He co-invented Virtual Reality Modelling Language. He's written eight books on tech-related subjects and dozens of articles. I met him twelve years ago when I was writing for Wired and did an extensive interview with him for a webzine, and have more or less followed his career trajectory ever since. Recently I did a search for him and found no main entry for him and a few dead links inside posts related to VRML or Terrence McKenna, with whom he also worked closely on several projects before McKenna died. In the past couple of days I've had some time to kill so I put together his page. If anyone has issue with whether or not he's significant enough, just go look at it, then tell me what you think.
b) My other project is one in which I have extensive knowledge and was similarly surprised that there was nothing of significance in here about him, and that would be the page of Allan Houser. Allan was one of the seminal Native American artists of the twentieth century, combining a keen understanding of Native iconography with the Modernist sculptural techniques current in the middle of the century, in the vein of Jean Arp, Constantine Brancusi, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and others. In the course of putting together his page (which isn't finished) I have also discovered a number of other Native American entries which are either stubs or were non-existent as I began to link to them, leading me to create more.
All in all, I'm having a marvelous time participating in Wikipedia. If anyone wants to question the authenticity of what I'm entering, please let me know what your concerns are and I will be happy to address them.
Gregoryptm 19:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Your user page
It sounds like you're a bit confused about user pages. Let me know if this helps.
Every use on Wikipedia has a user page and a user talk page. Just like every article has a discussion page where editors can talk about how to improve the article, your user page has a talk page where other editors can come to ask you questions or let you know that they made a change that may affect you.
Your user page is located at [[User:(name)]], so your page is at User:Gregoryptm. That's where you put your information about yourself, or whatever you'd like. Your user talk page is at [[User talk:(name)]], so yours is at User talk:Gregoryptm, and that's where people will come to leave messages for you (that's the page that you're looking at right now).
When you write a message on a talk page, you should sign your name by writing ~~~~ when you're done -- that will automatically put it your user name, a link to your user page, and the time that you left that message. When you see someone else's linked username, you can click on it. That will bring to their user page, so to get to their user talk page, click on the tab at the top that says "Discussion." When you get there, click the + sign, which will let you add a new section on their talk page. Try it out with my linked name (Dylan) at the end of this message.
I hope this helps you out. Let me know if you have any questions (leave a message on my talk page!), and see Wikipedia:User page if you want a more comprehensive discussion about user pages.
Thanks! Dylan 04:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Eunice Carter
Your recent contribution(s) to Wikipedia are very much appreciated. However, you did not provide references or sources for your information. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. If sources are left unreferenced, it may count as original research, which is not allowed. Can you provide in the article specific references to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content in the article? You can use a citation method listed at inline citations that best suits each article. Thanks! Commodorepants 02:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, it's not original research. I should've cited it. Sorry.,
[edit] Merge of articles
Aaniin. Please note I have merged the Birch bark biting article you began in 19 January 2007 with the Mazinibaganjigan article I began in 8 September 2006. The Mazinibaganjigan now contains two re-directs, one from your Birch bark biting and the other from Ozhibaganjigan. CJLippert 23:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
