User talk:Relaxation

Welcome!

Hello, 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! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 20:29, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hey, stop posting stuff copied from somewhere else on the Internet. That's a copyright violation and they will have to be removed. Adam Bishop 21:05, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I had no idea.

--Relaxation 21:06, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

If you want to help, you should write articles yourself, not copy them from elsewhere. Adam Bishop 21:15, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What if I'am not that good at writing articles?

--Relaxation 21:16, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nonsense[edit]

don't disrupt Wikipedia by adding nonsense. --Neigel von Teighen 21:24, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean nonsense? I'am just helping articles. I have that right don't I?

--Relaxation 21:26, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Not exactly, you created some pages about nonexistant stuff. A good beginning is to make minor edits, like mending typos or adding some piece of information. So you'll learn how Wikipedia works. After that, you will surely begin naturally to make bigger edits and also create great articles by yourself. Anyway, don't worry: Wikipedians know that newcomers do mistakes and no one will consider you a vandal. Yours --Neigel von Teighen 21:30, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well thank you for not considering me a vandal because I'am not I'am just new and I would like to help out. Mispellings I can try my best. Thank you Neigel.

--Relaxation 21:34, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Why I deleted your article[edit]

Because it contained little to no context, no links to other articles and was five words long. I understand you're trying to help out, try writing a bit more about someone next time. "XX is YY's sister" does not point out why they are notable: someone needs to be notable in and of themselves in order to afford an article on wikipedia, who you're related to doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.

As a newcomer try out some edits in the sandbox so that you can get links sorted and wikification, and put some efort into your articles. Substubs are OK, subsubstubs are not. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 21:38, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You people talk to complicated please talk normal so I can understand. I really want to help out.

--Relaxation 21:45, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think Francs2000 is being too technical (I've got similar problems as you when I was a newcomer)...Why don't you read Wikipedia:Tutorial first and Wikipedia:FAQ. There's all about the technical words. Wikipedia:Sandbox is a place for making editing test, experiments and play without breaking any rule, check it and play there for learning to use Wikipedia. --Neigel von Teighen 21:50, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

If you are not "good at writing articles", I don't know what to say, but don't copy and paste from another website. Don't make things up, and don't write about things are not fit for an encyclopedia. Look at the links Francs2000 gave you, they should help you. Adam Bishop 21:53, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Adam how good is your knowledge? That's what I would really like to know. Because your treating me like a nobody.

--Relaxation 21:54, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Adam, don't bite newcomers! Let him learn how this works. I saw him experimenting on the sandbox few minutes ago. Don't you remember how you began here? --Neigel von Teighen 22:04, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Neigel, have you checked the User's contributions? He/she has posted about 20 copyright violations today alone. The User is causing more trouble for other Users than contributing anything. Adam is being kind. Rick K 23:59, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

Your "get rid of the whole gay topic" is unacceptable. There are gay people in the world. Live with it. Rick K 23:40, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

I think he meant that particular article, which was indeed vandalism. Adam Bishop 03:31, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Relaxation, if I misinterpreted what you were saying, then I apologize. Rick K 05:22, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

Super-short articles with no context[edit]

An article whose entire content consists of "she is ten years old", without explaining who "she" is, is not a valid encyclopedia article. Such short articles with no context are candidates for speedy deletion. When you create an article about something, try to explain what that thing or person is, for the benefit of people who have never heard or it/him/her. -- Curps 23:32, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Why List of dead is deleted[edit]

It's a bad name. If you were looking for information about casualties in the current war in Iraq in the encyclopedia, would you look for "List of dead"? A good general rule for contributing to Wikipedia: Look for the closest article you can find to what you want to add something about. In this case, it's Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003; United States casualties of war is also related. Get a sense for what that article includes and doesn't include – because Wikipedia isn't a general knowledge base and isn't about including absolutely everything – and work with that. If you need to break something out in a new article, link to it from related existing articles so people can find it. Welcome, and good luck! Samaritan 23:38, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Talk pages[edit]

Stop creating Talk pages that have no accompanying articles. Stop making external links with no accompanying articles. Rick K 01:24, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

Relaxation was creating talk pages where the accompanying article existed at the time, but was since speedied. Samaritan 04:33, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)