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Welcome!

Hello, I dream of horses! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions to this 💕. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Closedmouth (talk) 14:06, 15 May 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Misplaced Pages Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Misplaced Pages is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Welcome to stub sorting

I don't mind at all about the userbox - that's how I got most of mine. :] And please, sort away! We need all the help we can get. If you need advice, post to the project talk page; there are plenty of folks who can help you. Cheers, Pegship (talk) 15:53, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

for your wellcome! Regards, --EnCASF (talk) 00:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! --I dream of horses (talk) 01:37, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Would you help me clean up and correctly format ...

the page on Mark Bell (journalist)? I'm creating a new page for a regionally famous person (who I look up to) for an MTSU School of Journalism project. I am fairly new to editing on Misplaced Pages.

If you cannot. Could you please point me in the right direction of someone who can?

You marked my article for cleanup and I would just like some simple common sense suggestions on how I can do that.

Thank you.

Jewels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WHoWhoOwl (talk • contribs) 13:22, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I didn't tag your article for clean up, though I am flattered you would ask me to help you. Somebody who named himself Binary TSO did. Here is his talk page.

One way you can improve the article is by properly formatting the inline citations.

Don't let this get in the way of editing wikipedia. --I dream of horses (talk) 13:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the link. I appreciate it.

You're very welcome! :-)

FYI, you might want to sign your posts by typing ~~~~ for now on. --I dream of horses (talk) 13:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Will do. WHoWhoOwl (talk) 16:12, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Misplaced Pages:New admin school/Rollback and Misplaced Pages:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. –Juliancolton |  01:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem, and thanks for the cookie! –Juliancolton |  01:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! :-) --I dream of horses (talk) 01:23, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Wuhwuzdat

Hi, I saw you added PROD warning to Wuhwuzdat's talk page, I think you may have warned the wrong user. If you could take a look at it? Cheers - Kingpin (talk) 14:20, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I added that to inform him that a article that he either proposed for deletion or stubbed was being proposed for deletion, again so he can look at it. Was I right in doing that? --I dream of horses (talk) 15:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Well the template that you used is designed to warn the creator of the page about it's deletion, if you were wanting input from an editor who had previously nominated the page for deletion, you'd be better off with a "real" message. Wuhwuzdat may appreciate you removing the message (which is almost a warning), although I can't speak for him. Don't worry though, you didn't do anything wrong, we're all learning :) - Kingpin (talk) 15:23, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

You're right. When I look at it now, I can see where it would be for the creator of the article.

I actually put the warning on three pages---the creator, wuhwuzdat, and one other person (I forget who). Out of good faith curiosity, why are you specifically talking about wuhwuzdat and not the other person who got the warning? --I dream of horses (talk) 15:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry, it's not favouritism ;), just happened to have Wuhwuzdat's talk page on my watchlist from a time I left a message on his page a while back. Didn't even check the other user's talk page (contact User:TexasAndroid if you'd like to know who that was BTW). - Kingpin (talk) 15:35, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh! Thought so! Thanks! --I dream of horses (talk) 15:39, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

n/p. Keep up your work with new pages :) - Kingpin (talk) 15:42, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Wuhwuzdat (talk) 06:21, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

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Redlink categories

Hi, think you were a bit quick off the mark with removing a redlinked category with this edit. You may not have noticed that the category had at least one member as well as the article from which you removed it. It's actually perfectly reasonable to add redlink categories to articles when they're categories likely to be needed, and (as it happens) I was on the point of creating it. Happy editing! cheers, Struway2 (talk) 16:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Whoops! I didn't know that. My apologies, and I won't do it again. Thanks for telling me! --I dream of horses (talk) 16:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

No harm done. The tricky bit is guessing whether the editor has deliberately included the redlink, or made a typo, or genuinely doesn't know what they're doing... Perhaps another time I'll create the category first, and then upload the article :-) cheers, Struway2 (talk) 17:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. --I dream of horses (talk) 17:38, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Changing A Page's Title

Hi,

First, thanks for welcoming me! This seems simple, but how can I edit a page's main heading (title)?

05-27-09

Ronc0007 (talk) 16:53, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

There is a tab on the top of the article that says "move". Just follow the instructions. You might have to be here longer to get that tab, though, because wikipedians have abused it in the past. --I dream of horses (talk) 16:55, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Relax!

Relax I dream of horses! It was a mistake! No need for an immediate maximum level warning. I already apologised. Cheers. The Ogre (talk) 17:24, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

No worries! I did get max level warnings, but from vandals and sockpuppets. I just make a policy never to delete anything in my talk page, except for obvious vandalism. See you around! The Ogre (talk) 17:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Whenever I try to run Huggle on my mac (admittedly, I haven't done so in a few days) I get "install mono in Windows version. No protocol specified." or something darn close to it. Apparently, internet explorer has been installed on my computer. I tried getting help here, and have also tried to recruit X! into the conversation to no avail. Any help? --I dream of horses (talk) 21:12, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

How is this Misplaced Pages related?--Cubs197 (talk) 22:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

It's Misplaced Pages related because Huggle is a Misplaced Pages only, anti-vandalism tool. I don't know the answer though, just answering the question above. If no one comes by by with an answer, you could try asking at the help desk, a dedicated forum where many more people will see your question.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Yep, or you could try Misplaced Pages:Huggle/Feedback. –Juliancolton |  00:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Declined Speedy Deletion: Cameron Nicholson

Hello I dream of horses, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Cameron Nicholson - a page you tagged - because: Criterion A7 does not apply: the article makes a credible assertion of notability, sufficient to pass A7. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any queries, please let me know. Ale_Jrb 16:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

If you don't mind me asking, what was the assertion for notability? Understandably, the article is very hard to read and I don't know a lot about the French army.--I dream of horses (talk) 17:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey there. The article asserts that he 'was ADC General to the Queen', 'served in the 1st World War and was awarded MC and Bar in 1918', 'served in the Second World War and was awarded DSO and Bar in 1940', 'was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery from 1956 to 1960', 'was Brigadier General Staff 1st Army in 1943' and several other points. Whether these are true, or sufficient to pass our military notability guidelines, is irrelevant. They are 'assertions of why he was notable. Feel free to PROD the article, or take it to AFD. Cheers, Ale_Jrb 20:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)