User talk:Mistsrider

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Hello, Mistsrider! 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 username 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! —EncMstr 08:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] February 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Knife, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Knife was changed by Mistsrider (u) (t) deleting 21812 characters on 2008-02-07T10:48:53+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 10:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Response: That edit was an accidental one, that happened when I was editing a section and the browser crashed, with a restart leading to a total rehaul of the entire article. That was not my intention. I am new, and hope that this doesn't mean that my privileges will be restricted in any way. Mistsrider (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] basics

Found this on your user page:

I'm very very new, and I don't know how to use Wikipedia's tables or fancy biography pages! I joined because I was annoyed at the extreme unhelpfulness of a couple of articles, with no tags to indicate otherwise, and I wanted to change that.

Uhh. Help? =D

The guideline discussing use of a table is at WP:TABLE; the gory details of table wikimarkup is at Help:Table. If questions or doubts arise, be sure to ask at the page's talk (click on its "discussion" tab). I monitor the latter article.

I'm not sure what you mean by how to use fancy biography pages. The best way to write one is

• find one which is well done
• click "edit this page" (don't worry, until "save page" is pressed, nothing is written) to see the wikimarkup source
• copy and paste the good bits to your new or soon-to-be-improved article
• change them to match the new article
• press "show preview" to see how you did
• press "save page" once you're satisfied

At first, it will seem quite challenging, but I don't remember that lasting more than a week or so. Good luck. I'll keep my eye on this page in case you have any general questions. —EncMstr 17:51, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

Hi, I see you are looking for adoption. If you would like me to adopt you, please say so on my talk page. Thanks! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Knives

Talk:Kitchen_knife#Table WLU (talk) 19:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

Does anyone know how to put the required/requested comments on the Wikiproject templates, for articles when they are given ratings? Also, is there a guideline or help page anywhere for editing images? --Mistsrider (talk) 21:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

The easiest is to copy it from an existing project, such as {{WikiProject Oregon}} which has the categorization parameters. Is that what you mean?

What kind of image editing do you mean? —EncMstr 21:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Clarification Response: What I mean is, how can leave comments inside the box, like at the talk:Roald Dahl page? As for image editing, I mean how does one edit the informational content relating to the picture? Copyright, translations of captions, etc. For example, in this featured picture of the London Eye, the "edit this page" tab only displays this text:

{{FeaturedPicture|London Eye Twilight April 2006}}

{{PL showcase picture}}

{{picture of the day|August 20, 2007}} --Mistsrider (talk) 08:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Which box on Talk:Roald Dahl? You mean one of those at the top of the page? Those are not meant for typing inside. Those particular boxes are created by including a "template" (as it's called in wikiworld, but act like macros or string variables). Wherever a {{template name}} appears and get substituted with the contents of template:template name. —EncMstr 01:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ok lets get started (Adoption)!

Great! I would love to adopt you. Let's start off by anything you need help with. As of right now, is there anything you are confused on or would like to know how to do? Please feel free to ask me anytime on my talk page. Thanks! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 21:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok! Thanks for the questions! To redirect a page click on the icon that looks like this: . And then insert the page name. If you click here, you will find some basic policies for Wikipedia. Please feel free to ask additional questions. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cookies for you

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