User:Stewartadcock
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Wikipedia editor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you care enough to click a link, more about me can be found on my website.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years. |
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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. |
This user is a former administrator on the English Wikipedia (verify) whose administrator rights were suspended due to inactivity. |
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Links: Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import FOLDOC home FOLDOC new stuff
Draft articles that I (might) be working on:
This is a simple piece of text that can be used as the basis of a welcome message to an anonymous user:
==Welcome== [[Wikipedia:Introduction|Welcome]] to Wikipedia. Thank you for your recent contributions. Please consider [[Special:Userlogin|creating an account]] and logging-in, which has many [[Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account?|benefits]]. In the meantime, here are some useful links if you need any help: *[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]] *[[Wikipedia:How to write a great article|How to write a great article]] *[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]] *[[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not|What Wikipedia is not]] Again, welcome. ~~~~
Other links that might need to be highlighted to anon's:
*[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|Naming conventions]] *[[Wikipedia:Neutral_Point_of_View|Neutral point of view policy]]
Message for anonymous authors of vanity or non-noteworthy articles, probably most usefull when incorporated into the welcome message: (Note that this is similar to the {{vanity|XXX-XXX}} template.)
The content of [[XXX-XXX]] was not sufficently noteworthy to merit an article on Wikipedia, and was removed. We [[welcome, newcomers|welcome newcomers]], and encourage you to become a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]. By [[special:userlogin|creating an account and logging in]], you are entitled to a personal [[Wikipedia:user page|user page]] into which that article's content could be incorporated. However, a subject must be notable to merit inclusion in the actual encyclopedia. ~~~~
Notice of copyright/license terms to anon:
The content of [[XXX-XXX]] appeared to violate the copyright of [XXX-XXX], and was removed. We [[welcome, newcomers|welcome newcomers]], and encourage you to [[special:userlogin|create an account]] and become a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]. However, we can not tolerate the inclusion of copyrighted material without permission to distribute it under our usual [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|license terms]]. ~~~~
Note about an "anti-vanity" contribution:
The content of [[XXX-XXX]] appeared to be a personal attack which this violates wikipedia's rules, and was deleted. Please do not continue personal attacks here, or you will be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing. ~~~~
These two are primarily a warning for link/ad spammers:
[[Wikipedia:Introduction|Welcome]] to Wikipedia, but it [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not|is not]] a link farm. Please stop spamming Wikipedia with external links. Thanks. ~~~~
[[Wikipedia:Introduction|Welcome]] to Wikipedia, but it [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not|is not]] not a medium for advertisments - this is considered to be spam. Please stop spamming Wikipedia. Thanks. ~~~~
And, a less friendly second warning:
Please stop adding spam to Wikipedia - it is considered vandalism. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing. ~~~~
This is a message to request that foreign text isn't added into EN:
[[Wikipedia:Introduction|Welcome]] to the English-language Wikipedia. Please do not add foreign text here. It will be deleted. You should contribute it to the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias appropriate language's wikipedia] instead. Thank you. ~~~~
Request for edit summaries:
Hello. Thanks for your contributions, but as a courtesy to other editors please start adding [[Wikipedia:Edit summary|edit summaries]]. Even something short [[Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend|like "fmt" or "wikify"]] is good. ~~~~
Some text to occassionally add into the welcome message:
I would like to encourage you to use the "Show Preview" button while editting. It helps to prevent the article history becoming littered with minor and poor quality edits.
You can sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing four tildes, i.e., "~~~~"; the software automatically converts it to your username and the date.
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.