Dharrold

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Coatesville

Thanks for adding information about Coatesville and the other towns around there. The wikipedia inclusion policy is sorta strict, so, there's a chance that someone later on may nominate one of your articles for deletion via WP:PROD or WP:AFD. If you have any questions about that, drop me a line on my talk page, and I'll be glad to help.

Regarding the lengthy text you pasted into Coatesville, Indiana, I've read parts of it somewhere before, but, google can't seem to find it. It needs to be cited or attributed correctly (where did Joe Davidson publish it; and, was the revised version with Jerry Wingler's addendums ever printed anywhere?). It also needs to be cleaned up to read more like an encyclopedia and less like a historical narrative. I think that there is a lot of good information in there, but, it can be trimmed down a bit. You may also be interested in copying that entire work into WikiSource, which is dedicated to raw source articles (no need to edit it to be an encyclopedia article).

Feel free to leave me a note on my talk page, if you have any questions. Neier 01:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Tutorial, and other help

There are some tutorials available. If you click the Help link in the left column, you will see the main help page. Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia is useful to learn the basics about editing. There are also specific sections about adding pictures, and making them be the correct size, and so forth.

One thing I think you may be confused about is the difference between "Article space" and "Talk space". In Article space, it should look just like an encyclopedia. That is, no signatures or project banners, etc. Talk space is where people should discuss the article, and also where project banners like {{WikiProject Indiana}} belong. On talk pages, you should sign your posts with ~~~~, but, you should never sign any contributions in the main article space. You can switch between Article space and Talk space at the top of the page. On the top of this page, there are tabs marked "user page", "discussion", etc. On an article page, like Coatesville, Indiana, the tabs are "article" and "discussion".

Thanks for cleaning up the Coatesville page. You probably noticed that I moved the project tags to their talk pages already. Neier 01:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)