User talk:A Cromb
Welcome![edit]
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before the question. Again, welcome! satusuro 05:50, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
A Cromb, you are invited on a Wikipedia Adventure![edit]
extended edit summaries[edit]
Hi - clearly there are issues you wish to flag in relation to articles about toodyay - it is probably better in your favour to put the lengthy commentary on the talk pages of the items, rather than edit summaries - the problem with extended commentary in edit summary space - it is a lot more easily lost, ephemeral - whereas a comment on a talk page is more retrievable - and consequently better stated where it can be seen. JarrahTree 09:14, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Toodyay Barracks, aka Military Barracks, Police Station or Police Barracks[edit]
(Also pinging Elrebe56.)
In response to your e-mail of 2018-05-12...
"... two links on the opening page of West Toodyay ..."
This edit to West Toodyay, together with these edits to Toodyay Barracks should address this.
Everett's cottage[edit]
(Also pinging Elrebe56.)
In response to your e-mail of 2018-05-12...
To create a link to an article (whether it exists or not) just enclose the text in square brackets. If you edit any existing article you should see plenty of examples. And/or see Help:Link#Wikilinks (internal links). If the article exists, the link will appear blue, else it will be red. Creating a link to a page that does not yet exist is OK - see WP:REDLINK.
In general you can create an article by clicking on a red link, or going to that page (eg using "Go" or "Search" buttons - may depend on which skin you're using; see Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering) and clicking the redlink in the text "You may create the page ...", or see WP:YFA.
Note that some details of article creation may depend on your user rights. You have WP:AUTOCONFIRM, so you should be able to create an article. However, it may be better to create a user-space draft (e.g. A Cromb/Everett's cottage) to work in until the article is ready to "publish". A user draft is still visible to anyone who looks for it, so we can easily provide help with it if necessary, but is treated as a work-in-progress and not help to the same standards as an article. (Note: don't add categories to the draft. See WP:USERNOCAT.)
We can change the article title later if necessary, but it's worth thinking about whether the "cottage" should be capitalised or not. Generally it would not be, because it is a common noun, (e.g. Samuel Ferguson's cottage) but if the "cottage" is deemed by all the references to be part of the full proper name of the place - "Everett's Cottage" - then it would be capitalised (e.g. Connor's Cottage, Connor's House).
Mitch Ames (talk) 07:20, 13 May 2018 (UTC)