SarahMckinley

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Hi, Sarah! Welcome to Wikipedia. I have removed one of the messages posted above by an over-enthusiastic New Page Patroller; its tone was not at all what we should use to a new contributor, and I apologise for it and will have a word with them about it.

Because we do not want readers of the encyclopedia to come on "watch this space" articles, any article which has no content, or not enough to make clear what it is about, may be speedily deleted, and that is what happened to yours. If you want to take time about developing an article, what you should do is click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the proposed title; that will create for you a draft page in your "user space"where you can work on the article until it is ready to be posted to the main encyclopedia. It does not have to be complete or perfect, but there should be enough there to make clear what it is about, and why the subject is important or significant enough for an encyclopedia article. It is also very desirable to have references to verify what the article says. See WP:Your first article for advice.

I see that another user has for the moment made Henry Lowood into a WP:REDIRECT pointing to Machinima. That's a useful interim state, because he is mentioned in that article, but that does not stop the redirect bing replaced by an article when you have prepared one.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello JohnCD,

Thank you for your message. I will be taking your advice with the draft page, as a new user I went ahead of my class and created a new page not knowing the rules and regulations, sorry! Thank you for your help

Regards

SarahMckinley

Good. Perhaps you could pass the suggestion on to the rest of the class, so that they don't have the same problem. I see the class is registered at WP:School and university projects, which is good.

Two tips about talk page conversations: it's usual to indent successive contributions, like this, by adding colon characters : at the front of paragraphs. "Wiki markup" like that is explained at the WP:Cheat sheet. Also, it's helpful to sign contributions by adding a group of four "tilde" characters ~~~~ at the end, which the system turns into a "signature" of your username and the time and date, like this: JohnCD (talk) 11:55, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Twins

That is all my friend, forever and ever this is all. Love you <3 --JayeFothergill (talk) 11:37, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

YEY

I only just read this. Bun twins fo life! love you <3

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Thanks for your message Geniac! This information was very helpful and I am sure to use it within the making of my page. SarahMckinley (talk)

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