User talk:67.87.0.133

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Welcome!

Hello, 67.87.0.133, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Arm 04:56, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hi there!

I saw that you have written a few articles in Wikipedia, although you have to follow some guidelines when you submite an article. First you have to clean up the article to make it conform to Wikipedia's guidelines, and you would have to provide applicable links to related articles as well.

If you need help in editing your articles, just click on Help:Contents so that you'll be able to improve your current articles and write killer articles in future to be appreciated by all. Good luck! RashBold 21:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Covent Garden

I noted a totally unwikified continuous slab of text at Covent Garden Market. I have redirected the title. If there is anything in your article worth salvaging, please recover it from the history and merge it into Covent Garden. -- RHaworth 06:52:31, 2005-08-08 (UTC)

[edit] Style problems with your articles

Hi there. I can see that you've made quite a few articles for Wikipedia, and that other editors have pointed out problems with them in the past. The articles that you're creating (such as Adelia barbinervis and Swan Transit} don't conform to the Wikipedia style guidlines. By leaving articles in that state, you're creating quite a bit of work for other editors who have to then follow you around, cleaning up articles that you leave "unwikified". Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style before making a new article, and then go back and cleanup the articles you've already made. If you've got any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Fernando Rizo T/C 02:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

  • hello, i guess i should thank you for getting a hold of me. i have been using wikipedia for both business and amusement for some time now and just got sick and tired of some of the dead links and blank stubs on here. although i would not call myself an expert on anything other than my chosen profession, most of the articles that i have written and posted have been about something i know about personally. all of them have to the best of my ability been drafted to be both as briefly informative as possible and, more importantly, to attract the attention of more knowledgable people who are better writers than i am. Since i have apparently drawn your eye and perhaps ire for doing so, i apologize for not, as you might put it, wikifying my text. i confess that i have not done so out of both a bit of laziness and the desire to avoid the risk of doing it wrong, confusing people, and having my contribution rewritten anyway. The manual is rather informative and would be of great help if i were a professional writer rather than an engineer. i would not mind at all if any or all of my articles underwent the process of wikification in the interest of greater clarity or usability. however, should my sentences be deemed too tedious to quickly edit rather having nothing in their place as they were when i came across them, i will either attempt to structure them with the notation your website suggests or will more likely stop contributing. Again, sorry if i made a nusiance of myself and i thank you for your time. yours, bef <left at User talk:Fernando Rizo>


You are by no means a nuisance, and if my comment made you think that, then I apologize. Your contributions are most welcome, it's just that it wouldn't be too hard for you to wikify them as you went. I'll point out a couple of things that you could do quite easily to help out your fellow editors:

  • Bold the first appearance of the article's subject by placing three ' around the word. For example, if you were making an article about Bob Jones, the first sentence would be: '''Bob Jones''' is a notable American astronaut. - and so on.
  • Make wiki-links to other articles referenced in the text. By placing two sets of brackets around a word, you make it a link to another Wikipedia article. For example, '''Bob Jones''' is a notable [[American]] [[astronaut]]. will produce: Bob Jones is a notable American astronaut.
  • Finally, if you make a really short article (a "stub"), you can help out by adding a stub tag to the bottom of it like this:{{stub}}. If you want to really help out, you can add a more specific stub tag from the list found here.

Thanks for getting back to me, if you've got any more questions about anything at all, don't hesitate to leave me a message again. Fernando Rizo T/C 03:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC)