User talk:Savage1881

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Savage1881, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --Kbh3^rd talk 00:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Allen[edit]

It is improper to self-reference Wikipedia in the text of articles, such as you did in the Paul Allen article: "Wikipedia's List of motor yachts by length." Wikipedia's content is free to be mirrored, copied, and reused in practically any way by anyone, and indeed it is replicated by many on the Internet. So it would be incongruous to have that phrase appear in Reference.com's copy of the article, e.g., because the link would be to the Reference.com page of yacht rankings, not Wikipedia's. There is discussion of these sorts of things on one or more of the pages of guides, policies, etc., that are linked to from the welcome page and other help. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for contributing! --Kbh3^rd talk