User talk:Ploughstar

Hello, Ploughstar! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! LittleOldMe 15:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Love Wiki. Looking for some guidance please {{Adoptoffer}}

Adoption

Hey. I'm willing too adopt you, and if you accept, you can contact me here. Elenseel 04:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'm actually on vacation until the 30th of July, so I'll be available to help at some point, when I have an Internet connection. If you have any questions, just leave them here, and I'll answer them as soon as possible. Other wise, the Help Desk is there too. Thanks! Elenseel 16:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I wasn't able to get back earlier, but now I'm here to help. If you need anything at all, just ask me at my talk page, or do it here. Elenseel 19:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Honey time and Honey Time

I've done several things to cleanup these articles; since you're new and interested in regular editing, I'll explain what I've done.

First, you somehow managed to create two different articles with nearly identical names, differing only in the case of the 2nd word. I managed to do that myself as new user, I don't remember exactly how, but it's not a major problem. I merged the textual differences into just one of the articles, and made the other a "redirect" to the first one; now, no matter where people go, they get to the one page with the text. I picked Honey time to be the dominant article; this is in-line with general Wikipedia naming conventions (e.g. Ferber method or Shared parenting). Mostly-capital article titles are normally used only for proper titles, such as You Only Live Twice or Happy Birthday to You.

I've fixed your attempts to categorize the articles; you used a template-style syntax instead of category-style; categories are added like [[Category:Name of category]], templates are added like {{name of template}}. As you discovered, a category can be added using template style, but it has some negative side-effects, the two biggest being that it can cause seemingly odd things to be added into the text of your article if/when descriptive comments are added to the category itself, and it also causes the article to be added to every category to which the original category is a sub-category. The latter might sound like a positive thing, but some categories are intended to only be "meta-categories" - categories of categories - in a category hierarchy, and having articles tossed into those categories breaks the plan and severly annoys the category gnomes... Also, in one of the two articles, you tried to use the "Children" category, which is for biographical articles about particular children... I kept the "Child rearing" category you chose in the other article, a good choice.

I've also cleaned up your referencing. Good job on using reference formatting in the text of the article! Most new users don't become aware of that for a bit. What you missed though is that there's a way (several actually), to automatically make the embedded references appear later in a "References" section. I used my favorite method, the {{reflist}} template, but there's several popular variations. Also, I added a "name" field inside your "ref" tag. It wasn't strictly needed, but if you have an article with multiple cites of the same reference, you can use the <ref name=some.name />, instead of repeating the same details over and over in a <ref>...</ref> block.

Please don't be discouraged by all of the above, as a new editor you did a very good job starting out. Wikipedia is a big complex thing and nobody knows it all here; about once a month I learn some major new thing myself, without even trying. I don't regularly do new user help because my availability is very irregular - I sometimes disappear from WP for a month or two - but if you have a particular question about the above, feel free to "talk" at me and I'll get back to you eventually. Gimme danger 19:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Still looking for an Adopter?

I noticed that you have an open request to be adopted, but that Elenseel has already adopted you. If you would like another adopter, I'm an experienced editor dealing mostly with gnoming work (categorization, assessment, grammar, references) and would be happy to assist you. Otherwise, please consider removing your request. --Gimme danger 19:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Ploughstar. You have new messages at Gimme danger's talk page.
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Gimme danger (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Nother message for you guvner. --Gimme danger (talk) 01:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Classroom open

Hi there! I apologize about being late; I moved and was unexpectedly cut off from the Internet for nearly a week. (To think that for thousands of years civilization persisted without any internet at all. *shudder*) Your classroom is up here. You'll probably want to put that page on your watchlist. Cheers, Gimme danger (talk) 19:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)