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I was wondering if there is a way to search for wiki articles in your own area?? --Discolover18 (talk) 12:15, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Do you mean articles in a particular subject area, or articles relating to your local geographic area (which are kind of the same thing, I suppose)? Yunshui _水 12:26, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, articles within my local area of Erskine--Discolover18 (talk) 12:37, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Is this any use?

Yunshui _水 12:49, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah that's pretty good, thanks.--Discolover18 (talk) 12:49, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

I live to serve. Sadly there's no Portal:Erskine (Portal:Scotland is about as close as you'll get), nor a useful category (Category:Renfrewshire might have some helpful stuff in, though). I also note that we need an article on Erskine Hospital, if you're bored and have nothing better to do... Yunshui _水 12:53, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Ive thought for ages that the Erskine Hospital could be doing with it's own page and also the Mar Hall hotel as well. Yeah, ill see what happens. Thank you for your help.--Discolover18 (talk) 12:57, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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I'm looking to start an article. I need some help and some questions answered. I have an article in my sandbox. I don't how to turn it into a proper article??? Thanks. --Discolover18 (talk) 13:06, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

(typed before edit conflict)

The best place to look for guidance for starting a new article is WP:Your First Article, while the best place to get quick answers about general questions onwiki is at the WP:Teahouse. Once ready to start your new article, go to Articles for Creation at WP:AFC, or use the "Article Wizard" link on the YFA page.

You can also, of course, use the {{help me}} like you did, but that'll just put you on the list for a single helper...the Teahouse is more of a message board for multiple people to give comments.

(after conflict, and after looking)

Nice! I just edited your draft and added the "Articles for Submission" header to the top. All you need to do to submit the article is click the button. Honestly, I think it's quite nice, I'm just not an AfC reviewer. Revent (talk) 13:43, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your help. I think that's it done right. I hope so. Thanks for your help. --Discolover18 (talk) 14:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Well, you ended up submitting it multiple times, but that's no big deal and common... after you submit, there is a lag before the header changes. Your page is in the proper category (Pending AfC submissions) and that's what matters. Revent (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help once again. I'll get the hang of this one day. --Discolover18 (talk) 15:17, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hi I saved a draft of an article. Where does it save to?? Sorry but i'm a complete noob at this. Thanks.--Discolover18 (talk) 10:04, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry It is located at Draft:Erskine (charity). For future reference, you can look this up in future via your contributions. --Mdann52talk to me! 10:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much btw--Discolover18 (talk) 11:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hi. My sandbox has an article I wrote in it. However when I delete my sandbox, It deletes that article. It's strange. Can anybody help. The article is Mar Hall Hotel.--Discolover18 (talk) 08:36, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello. Your sandbox currently redirects to the live article. In order to re-use your sandbox, you'll want to remove the redirect. Here's how that works: When you open your sandbox, you'll be redirected to the article, but at the very top, you should see the text "(Redirected from User:Discolover18/sandbox)". When you click on that, you'll be taken to your sandbox with the redirection disabled, allowing you to edit the sandbox and do with it as you please. For now, here's the direct link. Hope that helps. Cheers! ~ | twsx | _cont | ~ 08:49, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks--Discolover18 (talk) 09:02, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	You're doing great work on a number of articles and becoming a fine Wikipedian. It is my pleasure to award you your first barnstar :) LukeSurl 12:34, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I am really chuffed by the way. It is my second star now. I got one from John the moderator guy. However I am really chuffed. I think ive had 6 articles done now. I have had help from John. I hope some of my articles look ok. Once again, thanks. Chuffed.--Discolover18 (talk) 13:47, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

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How do you archive the stuff on your talk page??--Discolover18 (talk) 14:30, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

One way to do it is to program and use an archiving bot. I personally like using Cluebot the third.

Another way is do it manually, usually through cut and paste. This page explains how it's done. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 15:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks--Discolover18 (talk) 15:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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Robertson Park

I noticed you tried to add back categories for Robertson Park of Category:Parks in Scotland, Category:Parks in the United Kingdom. I had removed these because I added Category:Parks in Renfrewshire which is a sub-category of both of those, and my understanding is that adding the parent categories is duplicating this. Hope this makes sense. --_nonsense ferret 18:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

yeah, cool cool, knock yourself out.--Discolover18 (talk) 18:03, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Im a noob at this, so all help appreiated.--Discolover18 (talk) 18:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

No problem, can't you go take some better pictures of the park if you are over that way? --_nonsense ferret 18:07, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

In time i probably could. I done this park as well. And I'm currently working on Fountain Gardens in Paisley.--Discolover18 (talk) 18:21, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks very much for your message. I'm very interested. Tell me more. Thanks again.--Discolover18 (talk) 10:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi there! I managed to send the wrong link there, *headdesk* Here's the correct one... Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon We'll be getting together at the Riverside Museum to write some new articles, and improve some existing ones. There's more info on the page, if you'd like to come please drop me a line - email address on the event page! Would be great to see you :) Lirazelf (talk) 10:18, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I'll be there --Discolover18 (talk) 15:17, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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