User talk:Tres chic
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[edit] Welcome
Hello, Tres chic, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. 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!
I saw your post on FisherQueen about being new, so came to see if you have been properly welcomed. We all have various interests on wikipedia, and I am both a mediator, and part of the welcoming committee. You will find the links above of some use, and I urge you to take the Wiki Boot Camp, but this WP:WC has some interest of especial interest to newcomers--where to find someone to ask a question when you need to close an edit. Feel free to drop me a question whenever. My email is on my talk too. Note the difference in my user name and the signature. I'll add something below as a bottom post on 'snooping' in wikisociety, but I agree whole heartedly with WP:Wh, so if you find things scary or difficult, ring my phone. // FrankB 05:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Walking Cradles, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Philippe Beaudette 20:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Walking Cradles, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Philippe Beaudette 21:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Walking Cradles
Please do not resubmit this article. If you disagree with its deletion, you may request a deletion review. -- Merope 21:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Notability
The issue is not the size of the company, but the Notability thereof. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Philippebeaudette (talk • contribs) 21:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC).
I think that at this point, your best option is going to be a deletion review. The page was deleted by an administrator, so recreating it without that review would be an issue as well. Wish you the best in your review process. 22:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reply
No problem. We all make mistakes as newbies, and starting at Wiki by putting up a page about myself/my company/my band/my cat and seeing it deleted is one of the most common. Doesn't mean you can't stick around and make yourself useful, if Wikipedia's goals appeal to you. -FisherQueen (Talk) 22:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Snooping tour
- Snooping is a time honored tradition here on wikipedia... took me the darndest long time to get over that. It's expected, and in some ways, wiki's rely on such for people to climb their learning curves, and in many ways, there are things you won't find out about with shedding any inhibitions on that, so do it. I know my own knowledge grew much faster after I gave in to the necessity. See for example Jimbo... where you may be amazed, saddened, amused, or all three, on any given visit.
Anyway, I was snooping one day when greeting a newcomer like you and saw this edit. It inspired the following mini-tutorial:
Here's a few tips (Call it Frank's five cent tour) in the form of a pop quiz: What happens when someone tries 'SDI' in the search/navigation line?
(1) Try it... Follow the 'lists of' (category) link. Follow it's category link. Note where you are, and look around.
(2) Type the word disambigulation in the search/nav window. Not too good... Well, if you look long and hard you might find the associated category (cat)... it should be there somewhere. But generally there's a faster way. So let's try another indirect approach.
(3) Return to the SDI (article) page, look at and for it's template (have to go into an edit window for that). Replace the pagename in the URL with the string: 'Template:template's name' and keep the '&edit' on the end... hit enter. (Can do that in the nav/search line too, but not to edit mode. The syntax is the same. try both until you know how to look at a template either way. You'll need to figure that out now and then.)
Now if you're user preferences are set to preview before edit, you'll see the template documentation, the template 'Guts', and a category; if you don't see that, then preview the window.
(4) Now follow that cat link. Navigate around til you find the cat found above, and the related category Category:redirects.
(5) I haven't seen whether you've ever aliased a term by building a redirect, but someday you'll certainly have to.
(6) So now go find the template {{R from alternate name}} (you'll have to navigate a page or two).
Such templates are supposed to be placed after the closing ']' on the same line on redirect pages, and there are loads of reasons and kinds for doing that, including some that have aliased names... including upper and lower case variations, and alternate/alternative wordings, and alternative spellings. Those 'aliased versions' should all do the same auto-categorization... which is a frequent common job for many types of templates. So not surprisingly, some redirects may need two and sometimes three 'R from' type templates. Templates are used instead of hard coding a category, as category names change sometimes. This allows all tagged pages to change to the new category in one single edit--in the template.
That concludes Frank's five cent tour... but you may want to bookmark some of those categories. I'll tack a couple of other 'goodies categories' in below my sig by using a couple of other templates there. You should be able to find the one's I used above, and a real flexible navigation type template called '{{succession}}' used on Honorverse in those places. (take a good hard look at this section in edit mode!) Poke around and have fun! (Just don't save any thing when looking under the hood, so to speak! <g>) // FrankB 10:34, Friday March 30, 2007 (UTC)
- Ten
- ways to get the same five useful places... and one besides.
- See also: AFD, CFD, MFD, TFD, VPP, WP:AFD, WP:CFD, WP:MFD, WP:TFD, WP:VPP, and WP:NCH
- Handy
- Tools for odd jobs
See also Categories:
Navigational templates, Miscellaneous templates, user templates, and uncategorized templates
