User talk:OlYeller21

Welcome! Feel free to leave comments, critiques, etc., below. Unless you specifically request that I answer on your talk page, I'll be answering here, as I prefer to keep as much of the conversation in one place as possible. I'm very new to Wikipedia so if I do something wrong, please let me know and give me as much information as possible so that I can make sure that I don't make the same mistake again. Thanks!

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Vandalism note

Looks like someone is vandalizing your page and mine from random IPs. I'm going to bed, so I'm taking the liberty of s-protecting your pages till tomorrow. AKRadecki^Speaketh 06:15, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Akradecki, I really appreciate your help. OlYeller21 (talk) 17:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ya let all keep powell ohio's page amazing and vadalism free yay!

Welcome and advice

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. I read the plea on your user page for advice to help you understand the ins and outs of contributing. There is a lot of guidance, in fact a confusing amount: good places to start are the Introduction, the Five Pillars, and the guide to writing Your First Article. A lot of new articles fall foul of the requirements for Notability and for Verifiability from Independent, Reliable Sources. The other two key content policies are No Original Research and Neutral Point of View. Finally (I feel as though I'm setting you a term's reading list) the List of Bad Article Ideas and the rather long list of What Wikipedia is not are worth a look. I hope that helps! JohnCD (talk) 17:01, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey JohnCD, I'm adding these articles to my list of readings lol. There's is an incredible amount to read and I'm doing my best to navigate on my own but this will help me for sure. Thanks for your help! OlYeller21 (talk) 17:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Advice

If you edit scientific articles, use only peer-reviewed sources. It's really easy to do this <ref>{{cite doi|????????}}</ref>Andrewjlockley (talk) 10:39, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. I'm not going to lie, I'm confused but I'll do my best to figure it out. :-) OlYeller^Talktome 10:41, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All papers have a doi number just cut and paste the text i gave you, inserting the doi number and the refs will be done automatically for you.Andrewjlockley (talk) 13:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that makes sense. Do you think you could toss me a link to an article with a Digital Object Identifier number? Do only online articles that analyze a researcher's findings have a DOI# or would, for instance, and article on Wired Science hace a DOI#? I'm really surprised I had never heard of this until now lol. Again, thanks for your help. OlYeller^Talktome 17:09, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not all scientific article have DOIs. A lot of older articles do not. Here's an example that has a DOI, [1] and here's one that doesn't have a DOI. [2] And it's not just papers that can have DOIs. See http://doi.org/. Articles on Wired Science do not have DOIs. -Atmoz (talk) 01:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SOrry for any confusion, decent journal articles without a doi are still acceptable. It's just a simple rule of thumb.Andrewjlockley (talk) 09:57, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello and welcome. This is just a quick reply to your notes on my talk page (thanks). Don't be too mislead by all the conflict you see there: there are many areas of wiki that aren't battle grounds! William M. Connolley (talk) 08:45, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I guess my biggest quest at the moment is to find out where I can be most useful. Recently, I've been editing articles on topics that I know something about. I also checked out AfD but it seems like there's plenty of people there willing to condemn or protect articles. I've watched over the New pages and Recent changes list but again, it seems as though there are plenty of people watching those areas. I think I need to get into a wikiproject. All I do know is that I want to be a a combination of a WikiDragon and WikiOtter which a small pinch of WikiGnome. I don't see myself being a WikiFairy or WikiElf as I think that there are plenty of those around already and they just don't fit my style. I guess I'm looking for suggestions on how to move in that direction. OlYeller^Talktome 20:00, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol is always busy with work.Andrewjlockley (talk) 23:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Vandalism of Powell, Ohio

You handled it well. Just note that you don't have to add the Wiki link brackets ("[[ ]]") inside of the vandalism template. Thanks for your efforts! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think there was any "vandilism to Powell, Ohio you guys take this shit way to seriously, Its a small town in the middle of no where I really dont think people are going to care, they probably are going to get some laughs.

Bob Cranmer

Replied at Talk:Bob Cranmer and at User talk:Cunard#Removal of Speedy Deletion tag on Bob Cranmer. Cunard (talk) 10:12, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When I first began editing Wikipedia, I was one of the overzealous SD taggers, see my contributions from March 2008. Many of the bad speedies that I added to the articles were declined. Then, gradually I became more interested in rescuing articles from CAT:CSD and WP:AFD, by adding references to the articles that are in danger of speedy deletion. For example, I've rewritten an article that looked like this into its current state. I've also transformed an article that looked like this into its current state. If you are interested in doing work like this, I recommend that you patrol CAT:CSD and WP:AFD to see if there are any articles that can be saved. You can find sources for these articles at Google Books, Google News/Google News Archive. You can also join the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron, which is a WikiProject that tries to rescue notable articles that are at AfD. If rescuing articles isn't your thing, you can be a recent-changes patroller, and revert vandalism by using tools like Twinkle or Huggle. If you like to watch drama enfold, spend some time at WP:ANI, where there are many interesting discussions. Cunard (talk) 21:33, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's something I could get into. I want to create rather than destroy. Besides not wanting to destroy, I usually get upset by people adding article for self promotion and when people mark articles for deletion with little to no reason. I think I'd like to get into policy discussion but from what I've seen, I don't think I could deal with the long winded, listen-to-my-voice responses. I'm used to discussing policy in a more formal setting with parliamentary procedure. Also, I'm not into drama... at all. I've also watched the recent change portal but I think I'd get most into rescuing articles. Thanks for the pointers. I really appreciate your time. I'll probably bug you in the future for more info if you don't mind. OlYeller^Talktome 21:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to ask me for more info. Good luck with saving articles! Best, Cunard (talk) 22:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unskooled

Dear OIYeller21,

I am a representitive of Unskooled and I am here to tell you that Unskooled IS a real band. If you would like more info please search Unskooled in Google, go to the [http://www.unskooled.synthasite.com/ band's website or email us at unskooledlakes@hotmail.com

Thanks,

Z Bowen General Manager & Pianist, Unskooled —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZakJPBowen (talk • contribs) 11:31, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Z. The question was not whether or not the band exists, it was (and still is) whether the band is notable under WP:Notable. This is generally proven if a reliable third party finds the band important enough to write about. No proof of such articles has been given and I couldn't find any on my own to try and save the article from deletion. If you have any questions, please let me know. I'll do my best to help explain whatever questions you have. Another thing to keep in mind is that this band might not be notable YET. For more info on that, see WP:NOTNOW. Cheers. OlYeller^Talktome 14:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD of Mayflower Beach

--Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 01:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of template

Hello. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Template:Adw. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Thank you. --Orlady (talk) 05:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm speechless. The history says that I deleted it but I couldn't even say when I've ever even been on that page, let alone had a desire to edit it. I'll do some research and see what was going on. Thanks for the notice. OlYeller^Talktome 05:13, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm relieved to know that the deletion was unintentional. I was perplexed to find that the template had been deleted. --Orlady (talk) 05:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron!

WELCOME

from a Article Rescue Squad member

Welcome to Article Rescue Squadron OlYeller21, a dynamic list of articles needing to be rescued, which changes with new updates, can be found here:

Articles tagged for deletion and rescue
Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found

I look forward to working with you in the future. A Nobody^{My talk} 22:21, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome...Be bold! --Buster7 (talk) 22:41, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]