User talk:ManfrenjenStJohn

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Hello ManfrenjenStJohn! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -SpuriousQ (talk) 00:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Building consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Preview

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 19:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All good questions.

Hello, those were all good questions, let's see if I can answer them.

• What is your role? What are your magic powers?

There is only one main role. It's called "Wikipedian" (aka "editor"). You and I are Wikipedians. Some Wikipedians are also administrators, but you don't need to be an administrator to have a huge positive affect on Wikipedia. I am not an administrator even though I've been doing this pretty regularly. Almost all problems can be fixed without the need of an administrator.

• Do you have an assigned area of topics/interests?

Nope. I pretty much take myself wherever I feel like going. There is a constant stream of information coming into Wikipedia (Special:Recentchanges, Special:Newpages, and Special:Watchlist are common). Most editors just go wherever they feel like, but some editors join a Wikiproject (WP:PROJ). I have not ever joined any Wikiprojects, but I may some day. Or maybe not :)

• When and how did I show up on your radar so you could observe and help me? Was it when I entered your "airspace" by working on the Sneakers article?

Well, I really liked the Sneakers movie so when I was on the Sneakers page, I added the page to my watchlist (you should see a "watch" tab at the top of most pages). A watchlist is a long list of pages that I am interested in. Whenever I go to my watchlist it tells me the recent changes made to the list of pages that I have interest in. See Help:Watchlist for help on watchlists.

Keep up the good work! ~a (user • talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adam Carolla!

Just wanted to thank you for your work on the Adam Carolla article. -- Craigtalbert 07:52, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know it's appreciated, Craig. Just like the fact that in space no one can hear you scream, sometimes it seems that on the Internet no one can hear you do good work! It's great to hear appreciation from another person. -- ManfrenjenStJohn 08:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inside Man

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 03:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Yep, I'm a repeat offender on this one. Thanks for the reminder. I guess my confession on my last edit summary didn't persuade against the slap on the wrist! That's OK, I deserve it. :) -- ManfrenjenStJohn 04:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Heh, that's okay. Your edits were quite good; that page needed (and still does, to some extent) a good cleanup. — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 05:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Adam Carolla Show

My bad - fixed the template on the talk page - I'm not sure of the "class", but if you leave it empty, that usually gets someone from that project to look at it and see how it fits into that project's categories.

Categories - if you check out the article (not the talk page) - I've added several categories (they go on the main page and not the talk page). Usually if you go the the project's home page Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio you'll see a link to templates Templates - and then it's just a process of search & hope you find the right thing :) SkierRMH 09:08, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please help with Abby Singer film listing

Please help with the Abby Singer (film) page and listing. I have tryed to make good edits.  I am new to Wikipedia.
VegitaU said that this movie may not be notable enough to stay on Wikipedia? I believe that it is. Also he has posted a notice that the film title maybe deleted. Please Help with this. Also please see Talk:Abby Singer (film) to see the some reasons that this film should be listed on Wikipedia.CamdawgUGA 06:21, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Relevance proposal

Hi. I notice you have cited the Relevance proposal in the past (now relocated to Wikipedia:Relevance of content). If you feel the proposal is of value, I would like to ask for your assistance in shaping it and building support for it as a fully-fledged guideline. Many thanks.--Father Goose 03:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the invitation. I'm getting a lot of good experience, but I don't know if I'm ready for work on a policy yet. Though your encouragement makes me think I might be up to it. If I don't get back to you on it, please don't take offense -- I'm either on "vacation" from Wikipedia (I get addicted and have to stop sometimes!) or I'm just too bashful at this point to work on policy. But I'm psyched by your encouragement. I will certainly think about it, whenever Wikip is on my mind! -- ManfrenjenStJohn 10:03, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Nah, it doesn't take anything. If you feel it would be good to have it as a guideline, all you have to do is stand up for it. If you want to participate more actively, give it a good looking-over, and if you feel it could be improved in any way -- perhaps parts of it are unclear or incomplete -- then offer your thoughts on the talk page. Every little bit helps! Thanks.--Father Goose 00:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geddy Lee

The Geddy Lee article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 19:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)