User talk:Klburns

Hello, Klburns! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Boing! said Zebedee 12:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images • create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Vitis Vulpina L

Hi. Thanks for the feedback on my Talk page - I've left you a Welcome message above, containing links to lots of useful stuff for new editors.

I hope you don't mind a couple of suggestions regarding creating new articles, like your Vitis Vulpina L one. As soon as you create an article in the main encyclopedia space, it will be available for all to see and use as if it were a completed article, so leaving large parts of other articles (like the dandelion information) to use as a template for further development is very likely to confuse people - and for that reason, other editors are likely to quickly remove it.

Using another article as a template is a very good idea, but the best way to do it is probably to create it in your own user space first, eg by creating the page User:Klburns/Vitis Vulpina L. You can then start with a copy of the article you want to use as a template and take as much time as you want creating the new article, and then only move it to the main article when you have it closer to completion. (As an example, I have a number of articles under construction in my user space, eg User:Boing! said Zebedee/Sandbox/Ephebopus murinus).

Anyway, welcome again, and if I can help you in any way, please feel free to drop me a line on my Talk page.

-- Boing! said Zebedee 12:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I've made significant fixes to this article, and moved it to the correct title. Please look at what those differences are, so that you don't make the same mistakes again. Thanks for the new article! - UtherSRG (talk) 04:25, 14 May 2010 (UTC)