User talk:Cucumberkvp

Hello Cucumberkvp, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Cucumberkvp, good luck, and have fun. -- — CactusWriter | ^needles 15:35, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of tips

Hi, Cucumberkvp. I noticed your contributions at Bog body and appreciate your jumping in to help. I do want to give you a couple of tips. We use bold letters in Wikipedia articles only for specific things -- typically only for article names and section headers (See WP:MOSBOLD). Also, words which are red links in articles are fine and can be left alone -- they readers identify subjects which don't have articles yet and encourages the reader to create one by pushing the link. So I have re-adjusted the edits you made there recently.

Also, I would like to caution you to be careful of accidentally removing good information -- for example, turning Colisa into a redirect as you did here would lose a perfectly fine article. In general, before making any major edits, like a redirect, you should start a discussion on the article talk page, with the article creator, or from other editors working on those kind of articles. For example, in the case of the Gourami article, you will see on the article talk page that it is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes. You can discuss any changes with other interested editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fishes.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. Good luck with your editing. — CactusWriter | ^needles 16:04, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hi, Cucumberkvp. I realize you are currently retired, but I hope you can do me favor. I want to pass a message onto your editing friend User:Boy of The Waters. If you are able to, please have him contact me here on Wikipedia. I'd appreciate that. Hope all is well. Cheers. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 16:52, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply, Cucumberkvp. Let him know that he is welcome to contact me through my Wikipedia e-mail. As well, he is free to open a conversation on his user talk page if he wishes to request an unblock there. Cheers. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 19:58, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]