User talk:Badbats
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[edit] Welcome from SorryGuy
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Yes some of the links appear a bit boring at first, but they are VERY helpful if you ever take the time to read them.
Remember to place any articles you create into a category so we don't get orphans.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome. SorryGuy 05:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Zoo Crew and Category:Animal superheroes
Hi! Rather than categorize each Zoo Crew member in Animal superheroes, the Category:Zoo Crew members should be added to Category:Animal superheroes. That takes care of all of them at once and keeps the category listings uncluttered for each hero. CovenantD 04:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! CovenantD 04:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bozo
I reverted your change of Bozo into a redirect because it was, as you might have seen, just fine as a disambiguation page. I don't see why you would want all editors looking for the Bozo people or the Bozo languages ending up with Bozo the Clown. Besides, please remember that the latter one is well-known within the U.S., not globally - whereas the English version of Wikipedia is a global enterprise. Thanks, — mark ✎ 05:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I saw that your addition of 'the worlds most famous clown' was undone by someone else. The problem is, I think, that he is only known inside the U.S. by that qualification. — mark ✎ 06:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cut and paste moves
Please don't move articles by cutting and pasting from one article or another:
- In the early days of Wikipedia, renamings took place manually, using cut and paste, before the move page function was created by our hard-working developers.
- Now, cut-and-paste moves are usually done by people who are not aware of that function, or when the move function fails (e.g. because the target has history), and people don't know to use Wikipedia:Requested moves (WP:RM) to ask for help from an admin.
- When a cut-and-paste move is done, the page history of an article or talk page can be split among two or more different pages. This is Very Bad, because we need to keep the history with the content for copyright reasons.
(From Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves.) If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. tregoweth 03:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. (Regarding cut and paste moves to Lulu (entertainer) and Jewel (entertainer)) Jamoche 04:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Show preview and redirects
Please use the "Show preview" button when you are editing, instead of making several edits in rapid succession. From Help:Show preview:
- Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this prior to saving. This allows you to check what the page will look like first and to check that you haven't made any errors. It also prevents the need for multiple saves. Saving the same article a large number of times in quick succession makes it harder for people to check what changed, and clogs up the page history.
Also, creating redirects for someone's full name is generally not necessary, especially when the full name is not widely known. It is very unlikely, for example, that anyone wanting to look up Don Bluth would search for "Donald Virgil Bluth."
If you have any questions, please feel free to message me on my talk page or email me. tregoweth 14:52, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
