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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Alexrexpvt (talk) 02:58, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Alexrexpvt (talk) 16:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

At first I did not know how to use these blue banners but now I do understand. Thank you for your comment about clearing my sandbox. I will have to reread that again a few more times not just once! in order to understand it. Thank you.

Also thank you for the instructions at the top of your Talk page about protocol for notifying there but typing here. Takes me a while to understand what to do here but after repeatedly re-reading the same items over and over (again and again) over time (much time) some of the procedures sink in. Thank you.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration Alex!

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Alexrexpvt (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2013

Hello, I'm NickW557. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made to this edit to Paper Anchored Internet Voting, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 03:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Walter Grant Hodsdon

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A tag has been placed on Walter Grant Hodsdon requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ezekiel W. Hodsdon

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A tag has been placed on Ezekiel W. Hodsdon requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. freshacconci talk to me 19:58, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but notability in Wikipedia's sense is not inherited. Being a distant relative of a distant relative of a President does not count. See WP:NOTINHERITED: "Family members of celebrities also must meet Wikipedia's notability criteria on their own merits – the fact that they have famous relatives is not, in and of itself, sufficient to justify an independent article." JohnCD (talk) 20:38, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of PAIV

Hello Muonphysicist,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged PAIV for deletion in response to your request.

If you didn't intend to make such a request and don't want the article to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Oakleigh Park 07:03, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Amos Hobbs

Hi there. The page you created, Amos Hobbs, was actually part of the main encyclopedia and has been tagged for deletion. Don't worry about that right now. From your comments, I understand that you want to work on this in your personal space (which we usually call userspace) - you can do that here. Hope that helps - drop me a message either here or on my talk page if you need any more help. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! Cheers — sparklism ^hey! 07:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My username is Muonphysicist. I would like to respond to Sparklism but I don't know how exactly. I am doing what is obvious to me but this is probably not what I am supposed to be doing, so I find the learning curve here too steep. In any event, you mentioned userspace but I still do not see userspace across the top of my user account page (like I do see: Sandbox Preferences Beta Watchlist Contributions Log out). I would like to see something like userspace in that same row but I don't know what it is, and reading its page does not help me learn what it is. I wonder, since you offered me to ask you for an explanation, if you could explain it to me in simpler terms since the link is too detailed with too much information and I don't know effectively what they are yet. Any help you can provide? I have already explained and I think you said you do know what all my comments mean, that I have already explained what I want and how I would like to see it on my user account area so any help you can give me for achieving that is super. I can say that right now I am using my WatchList exactly as I wanted --- to see my own projects pages list --- but something tells me this is not how I am supposed to use WatchList. Watchlist is for me to watch other ppl's pages not as a place to merely keep my own projects. Seems to me there has to be some standard way authors keep their own projects listed and Sandbox is showing the editor box for only one project, not a list of 100 such projects. Thank you very much!

Reply to questions on my talk page, and above

Your Watchlist is nothing to do with what you want - it is a way to flag pages you are interested in, so that you know when they are changed. It is explained at Help:Watching pages. Useful tip: if you want to know about something on Wikipedia, it is always worth typing "Help:" or "WP:" into the search box, followed by the name of what you are interested in. In this case, either WP:WATCHLIST or Help:Watchlist gets you to the relevant page.

Pages without any prefix before their title, like Amos Hobbs, are part of the main encyclopedia that readers see, and so there are minimum standards for them, and ones that do not meet those standards are deleted. It is best to develop a page in a user subpage in your own "user space", and not move it to the main encyclopedia until it is reasonably complete, with enough there to show why the subject is important. Your user sub-pages have titles starting with "User:Muonphysicist/" (note the forward-slash). For instance, User:Muonphysicist/Amos Hobbs is the page that Sparklism kindly moved your article to.

You can start a new user subpage by typing "User:Muonphysicist/" in the search box followed by a title, but a better way, particularly for draft articles, is to click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will make a draft page for you with a link to useful advice and a "Submit" button to send it, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation where an experienced user will look at it and either accept it or give you feedback. Until you have more experience, that may be a better route than moving the page straighr into the encyclopedia, which you can do with the "Move" button, taking care to select "(Article)", not "Wikipedia" from the drop-down menu.

Clicking on "Contributions" will remind you of the names of any pages you have edited recently; a way to see all your usersubpages is to go to your main user page User:Muonphysicist (this works whether or not there is anything on that page), click on "Page information" at the bottom of the left hand sidebar, and then click on "Number of subpages of this page" in the "Basic information" box,

The simplest way to do what you want, i.e. keep track of your subpages, is to use your sandbox as an index page. If you type into it a list of your various user sub-pages, between double square brackets (e.g. *[[User:Muonphysicist/Amos Hobbs]]), putting an asterisk * before each which will arrange them in a column, then you will be able to get to any of your pages in two clicks, one on "Sandbox" at the top of the page and one to click on the page you want. You can use a "Pipe" character | like this: *[[User:Muonphysicist/Amos Hobbs|Amos Hobbs]], if you like, so that what appears in the sandbox page is only "Amos Hobbs" rather then the full name, but the link still works. That is called a WP:Piped link.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

A final, but important, piece of advice: on talk pages it helps to know who said what when, so you should always sign your contributions to talk pages (but not articles) by ending them with a group of four "tilde" characters ~~~~, which the system will turn into a "signature" of your username and the time and date, like this: JohnCD (talk) 21:44, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]