Vtob

Hello, Vtob! 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 using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; 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! JamesBWatson (talk) 13:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines 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 • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Global Business Network

In response to your request on my talk page I have userfied Global Business Network, and you will find it at User:Vtob/Global Business Network. You can edit it there, and it can be relaunched as an article if and when it is ready. (Note that a "usefied" page is a temporary measure to allow work on the article, not a long-term way of avoiding deletion.) I have not restored the latest edits, because they were about as unambiguously promotional as anything I have ever seen on Wikipedia, and would have been sufficient grounds for speedy deletion again, even as a user-space page. Please feel welcome to contact me again on my talk page if you need to. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:18, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome and the help, JBW. Vtob (talk) 14:04, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I've taken the liberty of "fixing" (standardizing) the formatting of your talkpage here. (added a header, and fixed the indent). Hope that's ok.

The real reason I'm here, is partially as someone with an interest in the GBN (I'm not overly familiar with them, but I have read Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View, and a few articles on the Long Now Foundation and I own 5 editions of The Whole Earth Catalog...), and partially as a relatively experienced editor around here. I'm very busy this week, but I'll keep an eye on the userfied copy of the article, and will help out if I can. Feel free to ask me if you'd like pointers towards any guidelines/policies/helppages, I'm great for that! HTH. -- Quiddity (talk) 00:40, 30 September 2010 (UTC)