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Hi. I noticed that your new articles are better suited for our sister project Simple English Wiktionary. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If you'd like to learn about how to help, the links in my welcome message above are a good place to start. And of course, if you have any questions, you can ask myself or another administrator. Thank you. · Tygrrr·talk·15:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
All right. They were redlinked on the vocabulary list so I understood those to be desired creations. Will be more careful in the future. Cheers, Durova02:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, thanks. I've been doing some work over at Commons lately so I thought I'd add some commonscat links. Maybe once I get more familiar with Simple English I'll try new page creations also. Don't want to be a net drain. Cheers, Durova02:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If you need anything else, feel free to ask me on my talkpage. I am on here most days out of the week, and depending upon if the question that you ask me is beyond me or if I am able to answer it, you will get an answer.
If I can answer it, I will answer it.
If it is beyond me, I will refer you to someone more knowledgable in that subject that me.
Userboxes do not exist in this wikipedia. The only way to get userboxes is to bring them over from en:wikipedia, and then make a user subpage for each userbox that you would like to make on here.
It would actually be better to make a page with a soft redirect to your en:wikipedia userpage where all of your userboxes are there.
Simplify all pages you port over from en:wikipedia please.
Hey there, Durova! Here are a few good ideas that you can use to help in the making of articles that you might do in the future:
If the article that you created is under 1,000 bytes, please add the ((stub)) template into the article near the end (below the Other websites, but above the interwikis (detailed below)). This will let other editors know that it is a short article that needs to be made bigger.
If you have no idea what categories an article that you create goes under, please include the ((uncat)) template to the article. This will let other editors know that you need help categorizing an article appropriately.
Please remember to include interwikis at the bottom of an article. This will enable users to go between the many different Wikipedias that are in existence to check information and possibly add new information to the article here. It's mostly a convenience thing.
I'm not sure if you already know this, but we recently finished overhauling both the very good article and good article requirements, and we now have proposals and voting for good articles and very good articles. Pages can be found at WP:PGA and WP:PVGA and WP:PAD. I hope to see you on those pages! Razorflame01:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I noticed you really needed the basics of French Medieval history. Maybe I'll write something good or very good once the fundamentals are covered. Durova (talk) 01:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There are some articles that are currently being voted on underneath the page WP:PGA. The voting is going to be ending tomorrow for the pages listed there. Razorflame01:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
ENWP is not a "reliable source" for the purposes of references and so it should not be used to prove a fact if, for example, anyone has queried it using ((fact)). One article recently delete after RfD quoted loads of wikis as prove. Unfortunately when they where checked most were copies of each other, hence they are not a good source in themselves, but if the other wiki quotes the original source, and that should be used.--Bärliner11:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the house out of category Kings and queens of France because not every member was a King or Queen, although it seems every article we have is about a King or Queen. It might be worth editing the category Kings and queens of France to say "see also House of xxx, House of yyy" etc. The alternative would be to create subcats in each Royal House "French Kings and queens of the House of xxx". The subcat would also be a subcat of French Kings and Queens. --Bärliner11:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that you're creating a lot of year pages. I could do this a lot faster with my bot and save you some work, plus it wouldn't flood the recent changes list.--Werdan7T@04:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That'd be cool. I was doing some Medieval history stubs and it was really slowing me down to create a whole set of subordinate categories and pages with each new stub. So if you could automate some of that it would be great. Can you do birth and death year categories also? Durova (talk) 04:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just to let you know, all of the pages you created that didn't have any content besides Events, Births, Deaths, and a navigation box have been deleted. It probably goes without saying, but please don't create any more empty pages. Thank you. · Tygrrr...16:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry to have caused any fuss, but it really does slow down article creation to have to fill in a whole series of redlinks at every turn. The raw mechanics of cut this, paste that, fill in the blanks was taking more time than writing stub articles for actual French monarchs. And many of the pages that do exist already for Medieval topics have nonstandard format because of the piecemeal approach. What harm does it really do to have placeholder pages for material that will inevitably appear as the project grows? Surely, something or other happened in the year 741... Durova (talk) 23:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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