Mistsrider

Hello, Mistsrider! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. 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! —EncMstr 08:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images 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 Wikipedia 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

basics

Found this on your user page:

I'm very very new, and I don't know how to use Wikipedia's tables or fancy biography pages! I joined because I was annoyed at the extreme unhelpfulness of a couple of articles, with no tags to indicate otherwise, and I wanted to change that.

Uhh. Help? =D

The guideline discussing use of a table is at WP:TABLE; the gory details of table wikimarkup is at Help:Table. If questions or doubts arise, be sure to ask at the page's talk (click on its "discussion" tab). I monitor the latter article.

I'm not sure what you mean by how to use fancy biography pages. The best way to write one is

• find one which is well done
• click "edit this page" (don't worry, until "save page" is pressed, nothing is written) to see the wikimarkup source
• copy and paste the good bits to your new or soon-to-be-improved article
• change them to match the new article
• press "show preview" to see how you did
• press "save page" once you're satisfied

At first, it will seem quite challenging, but I don't remember that lasting more than a week or so. Good luck. I'll keep my eye on this page in case you have any general questions. —EncMstr 17:51, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Knives

Talk:Kitchen_knife#Table WLU (talk) 19:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Help!

Does anyone know how to put the required/requested comments on the Wikiproject templates, for articles when they are given ratings? Also, is there a guideline or help page anywhere for editing images? --Mistsrider (talk) 21:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

The easiest is to copy it from an existing project, such as {{WikiProject Oregon}} which has the categorization parameters. Is that what you mean?

What kind of image editing do you mean? —EncMstr 21:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Clarification Response: What I mean is, how can leave comments inside the box, like at the talk:Roald Dahl page? As for image editing, I mean how does one edit the informational content relating to the picture? Copyright, translations of captions, etc. For example, in this featured picture of the London Eye, the "edit this page" tab only displays this text:

{{FeaturedPicture|London Eye Twilight April 2006}}

{{PL showcase picture}}

{{picture of the day|August 20, 2007}} --Mistsrider (talk) 08:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Which box on Talk:Roald Dahl? You mean one of those at the top of the page? Those are not meant for typing inside. Those particular boxes are created by including a "template" (as it's called in wikiworld, but act like macros or string variables). Wherever a {{template name}} appears and get substituted with the contents of template:template name. —EncMstr 01:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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Earthsea

Hi there - I will be updating various Earthsea pages this week after a trip to my local library. I have already updated three of the character pages. Any feedback (positive, negative or neutral) is appreciated. Npd2983 (talk) 00:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Welcome Aboard!

Thanks for helping out with the Cutlery project! Great job on the Chris Reeve article. See Jumpcoach about a source for that sentence. Thanks again for the help, looking forward to seeing more of your work!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 23:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Message from WikiProject Children's literature

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WikiProject Children's and Young Adult literature Newsletter

Newsletter September 2010
Project news Welcome to the first edition of the WikiProject Children's literature newsletter! If you are interested in contributing or want more information, you can find us in the Outreach department. The project now has a list of its most popular pages. The mosts visited page in our project's scope in July was List of Twilight characters which was visited 538088 times from July 1st to July 31st; which means it was visited a whopping 17357 a day. Due to the combined efforts of several editors, the backlog of nearly 4000 unassessed articles has been eradicated in less than six months. Thanks to everyone who took part!	Collaboration article Don't forget that the current Children's literature collaboration article is Curious George (book). Be sure to get involved and together we can make the article a better quality. From the Editors Hello and welcome to this, the inaugural edition of the WikiProject Children's literature newsletter. We're very excited about it and we hope that you will enjoy reading it. We're still in the early stages, though, and need your suggestions and feedback. Do you like the newsletter? What would you like to see in the next edition? Please give us your feedback on this issue here. We really value it. Strdst grl: Editor Rock drum: Editor MessageDeliveryBot: Distributor
Current discussions The project's current discussions are as follows: Job Centre: A discussion which deals with a proposal for a Job Centre in the style of the WikiProject Novels Job Centre. Categories and project scope: A discussion which deals with the question as to whether or not some comics come under the project's scope. Project Scope: A discussion which centers on the gray areas in the project's scope. Categories and sub-categories - WP:DUPCAT: This discussion asks the question, should articles be added to a category and one of its subcategory if it fits into both? Complete Todo List: Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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WikiProject Children and Young Adult's literature Newsletter - October 2010

Newsletter October 2010
Project news As our banner proclaims, we now have an IRC channel at ##wpchildrensliterature on Freenode. In the future, the project may hold live discussions there. To access the channel from your browser, click here. Abcassionchan has become a member of the project. Thanks for joining Abcassionchan! Slowly but surely, more Unnassessed articles are reappearing. Please help the project by joining in and assessing some of them.	Unreferenced BLPs There's only a few Unreferenced BLPs (Biographies of living people) left. Why not head over to the page and help by adding sources to the articles? It's an important job, that requires assistance. From the Editor Hello and welcome to this, the second edition of the newsletter. This month, I need to ask a favour of you. You may have seen that this month I had to write the newsletter by my self. I really need your help with writing and giving suggestions. If you have a suggestion for a future edition, please list it at the tips desk. You may also notice the links underneath this piece. Please use them to share this newsletter on your favourite social networks. Until next time, happy editing! Rock drum: Editor MessageDeliveryBot: Distributor Share:  Twitter · Identica · Facebook · Delicious · Reddit · Digg · Buzz · StumbleUpon
Ways to promote the project If you're interested in promoting the project, why not visit the Outreach department for more ideas? There are many ways to promote the project. One of them is to add the project's ad to your userpage. To do this, simply add the code {{Template:Wikipedia ads|ad=212}} to your talk or user page. Another thing you can do is to invite other users to join the project. To find prospective members search the history pages of Children's literature-related articles and invite people who seem to be deoing good things for these articles. The code for the invitation template is {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/Invite}}. Todo List: Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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Children and Young Adult's literature WikiProject Newsletter - Issue 3

Newsletter November 2010
Project news The project's most popular page in September was Harry Potter which received 481902 views throughout the month. That means that it received on average 16063 views each day. It's a GA which is Top importance within the project's scope. To see more popular pages head over to the list now. The Children's literature Portal is up for Peer review. Please feel free to chime in here. Pandawing$ has joined the project. Thanks for joining Pandawing$.	Articles needing infoboxes There are lots of articles within this project's scope without infoboxes. They can help to improve the quality of an article by adding a brief overview. It's a task that won't take very long so why not head over now and help out? From the Editor Hello and welcome to this, the third edition of our WikiProject's newsletter. In this month's newsletter, I encountered a problem, well, two problems actually. I needed some help with the production: suggestions and other writers. As with last month, if you have any suggestions for the newsletter, please add them at the Tips Desk. If you would like to write some of the next issue, that's even better! Just come go over to the main Newsletter page to see where you can help out, and of course, as always, please give us your feedback on this edition, on the talk page. Until next time, happy editing! Rock drum: Editor MessageDeliveryBot: Distributor Share:  Twitter · Identica · Facebook · Delicious · Reddit · Digg · Buzz · StumbleUpon
Children's literature news The Lost Hero: The first book in Percy Jackson & the Olympians author Rick Riordan's new series, The Heroes of Olympus, has been released. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie Part 1: The first part of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie will be released worldwide this month, coming out on November 19 in both the USA and the UK. British PMs reveal favourite childhood books: The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his deputy Nick Clegg last week revealed their favourite childhood books to be Our Island Story and The Gruffalo respectively. Todo List: Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks. Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles. Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}} Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project. Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject. References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs. Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

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Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cutlery

Please weigh in on this discussion to keep our project open:Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cutlery. Thanks--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

Hello there. This is an automated message to tell you about the gradual phasing out of the preference entitled "Mark all edits minor by default", which you currently have (or very recently had) enabled.

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A Question For You

Seeing that you are a member of the WikiProject Blades, I was wondering if you had any suggestions on reliable, inexpensive, EDC (Every Day Carry) knives. Your respnse will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.99.129.213 (talk) 21:42, 29 September 2015 (UTC)