Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 19:54, 13 June 2007

Tiptoety is a member of the Law Enforcement WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Misplaced Pages's coverage of Law Enforcement. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Law Enforcement.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user is a new page patroller.

This user participates in WikiProject Disaster management.

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Tiptoety, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Misplaced Pages
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  Katr67 23:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Show preview

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. 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. Katr67 23:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome Tiptoety

Thank you for joining the Law Enforcement Wikiproject on the English Misplaced Pages! As you would have guessed we are a group dedicated to improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of topics related to law enforcement

Since you now are a member you get to have our userbox or banner on your userpage! To add these use:

1. {{User WikiprojectPolice}} -- our userbox, or
2. {{Lawenforcementmember}} -- our member banner.

Here are some more tips to get you started:

• Creating articles: See here for articles you can create, but dont forget to add ] to the base of the article and our project banner to the talk page of the article using {{Law enforcement}}
• Participate on our talk page: It is highly recommended that you watchlist it. There are also a number of small projects on the talk page as well that may be of interest to you!
• Check the bullentin board: For news and information, please read the bulletin board regularly or add it to you userpage using: {{Lawenforcementbulletinboard}}
• Improve an article: Click here to find all the really short articles, pick one from that list and improve it. When you are done go to the talk page of that article and removed {{Law enforcement| class=Stub}} the bit in bold and another editor will be along to see how well you have done and reassess the article to a much higher class.

All members are reminded:

• That this project aims for: No vandalism, no conflict and if particular articles in this project are suffering from vandalism, edit wars or talk-page abuse, please add it to the Article Watch List

In a nutshell:

• Join, Create & Assess
• Members in trouble can go to:

1. SGGH (Project Co-ordinator)
2. Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) (Assistant Co-ordinator)
3. Or any project co-ordinator listed on the main project page or members page.

Again, Thank you and Welcome

SGGH 01:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Heys

Hey Tiptoety, by the way you don't ned to add ~~~~ to your edit summaries, as your edits are automatically marked in the history as being yours, the ~~~~ tiles are just for when you are "posting" on talk pages like this one :) though it's awesome to see you summarizing your edits already! Keep up the good work, I'll see you around. SGGH 14:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I've rewritten a little bit of the MCSO SAR article just to make sure there are no further copyright problems, and I'll step back now to let you carry on with your wikiwork! Just ask me or Kat if you need any help or have any questions, and I'll see you around the place. SGGH 19:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I have done as you asked. To cite something, just take what you had placed in the notes section (the <nowiki<{{cite web...</nowiki> thing) and put it where in the text you want the foot note to be, enclosed in some ref tags: <ref>....</ref> like below:

(with wiki markup removed)SGGH is a user on wikipedia<ref>Chucher p. 106</ref>

Notes

{{reflist}}

Would become (with markup enabled)

SGGH is a user on wikipedia

Notes

1. Chucher p. 106

see? SGGH 21:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

PS, scroll through Mozambican War of Independence, an FA that I wrote, to see how to use inline cites, just click "edit this page" and look at how the coding works to make footnotes. SGGH 21:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

speedy delete templates

Thanks for your help in spotting speedy delete-able articles. I think you've been using the wrong template, though. To request a speedy deletion, use one of the templates at the bottom of this page. Joyous! | Talk 02:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

block templates

Hello. I saw you left this notice to a vandal informing him that he'd been blocked. Unless I'm mistaken, you are not an administrator on Misplaced Pages and therefore you cannot block a user. So it's generally a bad idea for you to leave such notices: for one thing they are deceptive since the user is not actually blocked and they confuse admins like myself who come to the talk page. I am grateful for your help in combating vandalism but please try to stay clear of these templates for now. If you spot a vandal not listening to warnings, then write a report on WP:AIV and an admin will handle it from there. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Another note (sorry, I'm just looking at your contributions!) In this edit you placed a level4 warning on the talk page for an anonymous user. Nothing wrong with that (although level 4 is definitely an overkill) but the edit you're refering to is three weeks old. Because IPs are not always static, it is meaningless to place that warning because it will most likely never be read or, worse yet, read by an editor who has nothing to do with the original offender. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask around (say at Misplaced Pages:Recent changes patrol) or check the contributions of an experienced vandal fighter to see how it's done. I saw that you also tag a lot of articles for speedy deletion. This is also a good idea but I'm afraid you have also tagged a few articles improperly, like Dorrie Nossiter. When in doubt, it's always a good idea to submit the article for deletion using {{afd1}}. It's also an easy way to avoid biting newbies (and many editors who are new to vandal-fighting tend to be a little too agressive). Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 04:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Red links

Hi, I saw you warning a user about red links. I didn't check to see to which red links you were referring, but I thought I would point out the relevant guideline on redlinks: Misplaced Pages:Red link. The gist of it is that not all red links are bad. Katr67 22:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Was about to give the same advice. I also notice that you put a few reports to Misplaced Pages:Abuse reports which should simply be mentioned at WP:AIV which will get much faster response. By the way, let me know when you get tired of the lecturing but since you seem to be dedicated to learning the ropes, I figured I can continue giving you advice from time to time. Do let me know when it gets annoying! Pascal.Tesson 23:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Portland Police Cadets

A tag has been placed on Portland Police Cadets, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Misplaced Pages guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 18:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Travelodge UK

I have removed the speedy deletion notice from Talk:Travelodge UK as the template should appear on the article page, not on the talk page. (I don't think it meets the crteria you noted (patent nonsense), you might have more luck if you nominate it for blaent advertising/spam.) DrFrench 19:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)