User talk:CRACK-A-BACK

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Hello, CRACK-A-BACK, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  Marasmusine 08:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Games

Hi, CRACK-A-BACK! Thanks for your edits to SimRefinery and welcome to Wikipedia. If you like games, perhaps you'd like to join one or both of these projects:

Catch you later, Marasmusine 08:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, Thanks for the info! I already joined video games project. And I've been on Wikipedia for a looong while (many years) but I never edited, but now I am. Emilio 15:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah :> Well, I look forward to your contributions anyway. Marasmusine 15:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks again. If you like my contributions, can you adopt me so that my future contributions are of good quality? Emilio 15:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd be happy to. I'll put the appropriate tag on our user pages. Feel free to ask me about anything, and I'll check your edits from time to time! Marasmusine 15:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Emilio, just saw you were using <ref></ref> tags for footnotes, which is good (that's my preferred method), but don't forget to put </references> under the References header so that the footnotes appear. Or you can put the {{reflist}} template which will also do them in nice small text. Marasmusine 18:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, Thanks for that. I'll probably need it almost every time I create an article. Also, I learned about how to do the refernece thing by looking at how you did it, so I think I am learning quickly. Again, thanks for the information. It is probably going to be very important. Emilio 19:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, almost every single statement put into an article needs backing up with a reference. Wikipedia:Reliable sources is handy there. When I'm making game related articles, my main source is Edge magazine along with the 'primary source' (i.e. the game itself.) Another useful page to read is WP:EL, which is the guide on external links. I won't throw too many guidelines and policies at you at once though :> Marasmusine 19:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kings of Chaos (MMORPG)

Hi Emilio, just thought you'd like to know the video game stub is {{vg-stub}}. Just type that in near the bottom and it will make the category automatically. I've also put a notability and primarysources tag on that article, and added {{cvgproj}} to the talk page. But anyway, good work. Marasmusine 21:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, Thanks. But I have bad news: I was working for a while on an article for WikiProject Video Games called Alpha Prime but today, I can't find it. It must have been closed :( Emilio 22:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I can't see it in the deletion log anywhere so I'm not sure why. Can you give me any external links for information about Alpha Prime and we'll see if we can try again. Is this the one: [1] ? Marasmusine 06:54, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... I'm guessing you didn't know what I meant? Yes, that is the web site. I was making an article for it, and I didn't publish it because I didn't finish, so I minimized it for the next day, and it wasn't there, so somebody closed it. Or was that what you were thinking? Emilio 18:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Ah I see. Best thing to do if you want to work on a rough draft is make a page your user space; somewhere like User:CRACK-A-BACK/Alpha Prime. You can save it there only half finished - it won't be in the main article space so you're free to work on it.
Alternatively you can start Alpha Prime again and when you need a break put a {{inprogress}} tag at the top and save it. Hope that helps! Marasmusine 19:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's good to know, but I don't feel like writing it again. By the way, most if not all of your tips so far have really helped. I was lucky that I could find an adoptee as good as you! :) Emilio 19:33, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Heh, thankyou! I was worried that I was bombarding you with too much information. Marasmusine 20:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Something do do

Hi Crack-a-back, if you are still looking for something to work on, you can help me tidy up and find references for List of Tetris variants? MarašmusïneTalk 17:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try and do what (little) I can. CRACK-A-BACK 02:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, if you've noticed I haven't done anything to that page yet, I didn't check it for a while until today, yesterday, and the day before, and I recently noticed in the history that there seems to be some kind of 'edit war', or at least there are some reverts to reverts, or something... anyways, just so you know, that is partially the reason why I haven't been editing it, because I don't want to do something that is wrong or controversial or some other thing, and I can't tell just by reading the hard to read block of text in the history page. So, don't think I am too lazy to do anything there! CRACK-A-BACK 01:58, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Don't worry about it, there has been some trouble there, can't blame you! MarašmusïneTalk 21:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spyro

Hi CRACK, the stuff had 'vanished' because you didn't close the 'cite web' template (with }}) or close the reference (with </ref>). It's something I keep forgetting to do from time to time as well. Still, all fixed now! Marasmusine 07:26, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks once again! For me, that was quite an embarrassing crisis. Hopefully I'll get used to doing it right. CRACK-A-BACK 19:11, 8 September 2007 (UTC)