User:Gaia Octavia Agrippa/Adoption/Riotrocket8676

Hello, Riotrocket8676, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I am Gaia Octavia Agrippa, but you can call me Gaia. If you have any questions place them here.

I will set you 1 or more tasks a week, depending on how fast you complete them. They will start easy but if you don't understand something, please say and i will explain it in more depth. If there is anything you specifically want to know please ask.

This is the link to your contributions.

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Answers

1. Hey Gaia. Thanks for adopting me. Alright. I am younger than an average Wikipedian. I am currently in high school somewhere. I like to edit pages on the SriLankan Civil War and US Military and WWII History. I am an American and in my Opinion, My country comes first. I am Half SriLankan, and a Sinhalese person, so I obviously support the Government. I know the extreme basics, and I can do simple stuff.Y PS: I'm an UK citizen as well! (If you still live there. Which I do )
2. Whoops! I didn't actually mean to put the whole article in! (I did it for WP:Snowball, unknowingly!)Try typing in WP:Snowball in the Sandbox. It will put the whole article in there.
   Coca-Cola Article on Coca Cola Riotrocket8676 (talk) 03:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Y
3. Don't worry about the simplicity. Its good to know the basics. Its awesome of you to take the time to do this! Here goes: The BBC Uhh, That didn't work!Riotrocket8676 (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
   Try TWO: http://www.bbc.co.uk Y
   Ok, found out i don't need the URL=Sign Riotrocket8676 (talk) 01:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
4. Read the page. I knew some of it, but the rest was extremely helpful. Thanks!Riotrocket8676 (talk) 18:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Y (Good! I didn't know some of it before researching, so I have learned some stuff through adoption too.
5. done. cat's added. Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 21:57, 7 February 2009 (UTC) Y If you look around I'm sure there are more categories you could add if you wanted.
6. Okay looks good. This stuff is built into huggle, so I know some of the temps. --Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 20:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Y I don't use Huggle so I didn't know that. So thanks for saying.
7. Done. Easy enough, figured most of it out by inspecting edit fields. --Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 22:16, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Y I know its basic, but it should help you to sort out your new articles. They need categories, headings and links to get them to B-class.
8. Ok, added links to both Mike Mullholland and Mike Oates. --Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 00:39, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Ah. When I said add links I meant add them into the main article. The See also section is for articles that have some link to the article in question, but are not included in the actual article. For example I could add a see also section at the bottom of this page linking to my other adoptees because they have something in common with this page. Try again by incorporating the links you put in the See also section into the main text and adding relevant links to that section.
9. Done. Added some refs. --Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 16:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC) Ok. you've added a lot of references but they are of the same site. Use {{cite web}} in the advanced references section to add more details to the reference and used the naming section so that you don't have to write it out so many times.

Comments

• For more on links see here.

• Your first article is looking really good. One of my first articles was a military biography too. It still needs more work, but I can help you with that. However if you would prefer to work on it on your own, then tell me. If that is the case i will monitor it and once I think it is reasonably complete, will assess it for you.:Hey, Thanks. I'd like to finish out the major work myself, but I wouldn't mind if you find small tidbits you think you should add. Simply monitor it and tell me when you think its reasonably complete. Thanks!Riotrocket8676 (talk) 20:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

OK then, I will keep an eye on it and make sure that no one tries to delete it.

Cool.

John F. Mulholland Jr is looking good. But you still need to edit it more and add more to it. The tasks i will set you for a while will help you with improving your first article.

I'm working on it, but I have exams, so i have to take a small semi-wikibreak. it'll be done by the weekend's end.Riotrocket8676 (talk) 15:56, 23 January 2009 (UTC)