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Revision as of 19:18, 17 December 2019

WELCOME!

Welcome to my talk page, type any text at the BOTTOM, and I will get back to you as soon as I can, and remember; No spamming, soliciting , or profanity on my talk page, and most importantly BE RESPECTFUL if these rules aren't followed I will have to report you to an admin. thanks for your cooperation! -Gumshoe97

Gumshoe97, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Gumshoe97! Thanks for contributing to Misplaced Pages. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Misplaced Pages and get help from experienced editors like John from Idegon (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:04, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Gumshoos Pokemon

Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Now I'm a big Pokemon fan as you can tell, but is your name by any means related to the pokemon Gumshoos? I was just curious about it and I don't mean to be personal about. Porygon-Z (talk) 23:34, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh! You are to?! That makes the two of us! Also it makes sense that gumshoos is based on a gumshoe, since he likes to play detective! Porygon-Z (talk) 13:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I know right! It's either I need more good information/sources or I'm just not good at writing articles. Then again I have no idea how to edit! Maybe you can help me?Porygon-Z (talk) 22:33, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh, what's that? Great! So I've tried to publish it, and they keep denying it because they claim it needs more evidence and it needs to be a good article in order to be spun off. I don't know how to do that. Porygon-Z (talk) 12:34, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh thanks! I've been trying to get accept so I hope it works! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Porygon-Z474 (talk • contribs) 12:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh my fluff! Thank you so much! It's about time for Porygon to have its own page, don't you think? Now about its evolutions........ Porygon-Z (talk) 03:50, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Damn. Well it'll just have to take time. Can I see the final result, please? UB Blacephalon (talk) 03:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to The Misplaced Pages Adventure!

Hi Gumshoe97! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

• The Misplaced Pages Adventure Start Page
• The Misplaced Pages Adventure Lounge
• The Teahouse new editor help space
• Misplaced Pages Help pages

-- 22:16, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 (UTC)

Hey

Welcome to Misplaced Pages! I saw at the Teahouse that you're looking for someone to adopt you. Hopefully you'll find someone soon. In the mean time, if you run into any issues or have questions or anything specific on-wiki you'd like to learn, feel free to ask me and I'll try to point you in the right direction. I'd offer to adopt you, but I'm far too prone to randomly disappearing from Misplaced Pages for weeks or months at a time, so that wouldn't be fair to you. (Helping you while I happen to be around, on the other hand, shouldn't be a problem). Have a nice day, AddWittyNameHere 00:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

P.S. One thing that might help in getting someone to adopt you is placing the {{adopt me}} template on your talk page. Means you'll be added to Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user, making it easier for folks looking to adopt a new editor to find you. AddWittyNameHere 00:44, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Yup, just like that. :) (Do you have any preference for me responding on your talk page or keeping the conversation in a single location--either your talk page or mine? Any of those options work for me, so whatever's easier for you. :) AddWittyNameHere 01:05, 3 December 2019 (UTC))

Whoops, didn't look carefully enough. My fault, sorry. You seem to have accidentally substituted rather than transcluded the template. In any case, I have now fixed it for you and you should be showing up in the category soon. :) As for adopting, hm... I still don't think it'd be ideal, but it also depends a bit on what areas you are looking for help in. If they're either basics or specific areas I'm pretty familiar in, I'm willing to at least consider it. If they're wildly different from what I'm used to doing on wikipedia, it's probably better to wait for someone who has more clue about those specific areas. AddWittyNameHere 01:32, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. Anyway, like I asked above, what type of help are you looking for in an adopter? AddWittyNameHere 01:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Adoption

I have done soem "adoptive' mentoring in the past, and would be willign to give it a try again with you. I would ask:

• what are your general goals on Misplaced Pages?
• What kinds of issues do you think you want or need help with?
• How much effort do you expect to put into editing, and how much contact/oversight do you want from an adopter?

You can take a look at my user page and my edits and see if you think I would be the sort of mentor you would like. Please ping me with your response, or place a talk back on my user page. Thank you. DES _{DESiegel Contribs} 02:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Subjects and a suggestion

Hi. When you add a new section to a talk page, it is helpful if you use a short, descriptive title that summarizes the subject of your post. This usually avoids duplicate section names (which are bad), and helps others when they look at page histories, search, etc.

I wanted to say that I'm pleased to see a young person that is interested in contributing to the world, writing complete sentences, etc. If you are interested in Pokemon, as you appear to be, I'm sure that working on those articles, and any others, will be rewarding for both you and Misplaced Pages. If I may offer some advice, try to do more of that, and leave administrative matters to the more experienced editors and admins. While it's certainly good to fix vandalism when you see it, focusing on the negative aspects of the project can lead to "burn-out" and disillusionment, and is ultimately not very satisfying work. I.e., it is better to create than destroy, if you can. Also, even if you have the best intentions, it can look odd to other editors when a newbie wants to administer others without gaining the experience needed to fully understand the environment.

I don't see anything wrong with your username, BTW. It's creative, unique, and apparently meaningful. Change it if you like, but note that your editing history follows the rename, but existing signatures to talk pages will not, which can be kind of confusing to others.

I hope this helps, and cheers! —— 21:13, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

EC and article edits

I tend to agree with Cullen, that the articela bout the middle east, one of the more controversial areas oin Misplaced Pages, are not a wise choice for an inexperienced editor. I would however, hope that you can do more article editing -- i see in your contributions lots of edits to your own user space, and lots in other people's user talk, but relatively little in article space or article talk space. Is there any topic are you are at all intersted in beyond the Middle East? I cna perhaps suggest soem articles that would repay attention in a ny given topic area, or some tasks that could be undertaken as a way to gain experience. Tell me if either idea appeals to you. DES _{DESiegel Contribs} 22:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I added a template to your user page marking the adoption. DES _{DESiegel Contribs} 22:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on the new name change! If you have any questions about anything, ping me and I'll try to help you out the best I can! UB Blacephalon (talk) 17:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC) Thanks for the Barnstar! I really appreciate it! UB Blacephalon (talk) 14:00, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Note

Hi James The Bond 007, I'm Primefac. You'll likely not be pleased about this but I have removed some of your edits because they reveal too much personally identifiable information about you. We have a policy of protecting editors' safety by hiding such information if they share it. I'm really sorry about having to suppress your edits, and I know it's annoying, but it's for the best. Please don't re-add the information. For some useful information on privacy and safety, you can take a look at Misplaced Pages:Guidance for younger editors and Misplaced Pages:On privacy, confidentiality and discretion. Thank you, and sorry for messing about with your edits! Primefac (talk) 14:52, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

IS CRISMA!

UB Blacephalon (talk) 17:10, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Your edit to JellyRoll

Just because an editor at Teahouse wants to change content at JellyRoll does not mean that you should do it unless you are able to also add a reference to that effect. David notMD (talk) 18:30, 17 December 2019 (UTC)