User talk:BrianBird

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[edit] A welcome from Sango123

Hello, BrianBird, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Though we all make goofy mistakes, here is what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful.

Happy editing!

-- Sango123 (talk) 17:19, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Regarding your edit to Northampton Town F.C.: Please don't remove content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thanks!

[edit] Album/film titles

Hi, I noticed you just made some formatting changes to the headings of a couple of articles. Standard practice is to italicize names of major works like albums or films, so the headings should really be in italics. You can find the guidelines for things like italics and quotation marks at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles). Just thought I should let you know before you get too involved with changing them. Thanks. - N (talk) 07:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing stub templates

Hi, I noticed you have been removing stub templates from a few articles, such as BK Häcken and FC Rànger's. I am not sure that is a very good idea since those articles still are stubs, despite maybe a table and some short lists. I suggest you read WP:STUB, which amongst other things says that "To qualify as a stub it must at least define the meaning of the article's title. Often that means three to ten short sentences, but less text may be sufficient to qualify as a stub for articles on narrow topics, and complicated topics with more than ten sentences may still be stubs." The BK Häcken article for example, is two short sentences, a squadlist, a noted players list and an achievements list. It has a long way to go before it could be considered not a stub. This is not a great concern, but stub categorisation may actually help us, but removing stub templates before the article is de-stubbed does not. I would suggest you increase the threshold for removing stub templates significantly, and take into consideration not only the length of the article but also the amount of actual prose in it. Regards, – Elisson • T • C • 13:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)