User talk:Placeholderusername

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Hello, Placeholderusername, and welcome to Uncyclopedia. This is a wiki (a collection of pages anyone can edit). Words in blue are "links" and can be clicked to take you to another page. This wiki is for comedy. It pretends it's Wikipedia, but we make people laugh, not bore them. If you aren't interested in a fake encyclopedia but in writing fake news stories, we have UnNews, and there are other projects for scripts, lyrics, how-to guides, and so on.

You can create your own article. For starters, create it under your own name; for example, User:Placeholderusername/Bedbug. (The red instead of blue is a link to a page that doesn't yet exist.) We have a list of articles that need to be created. You can help without writing articles; just read articles and, if you see an improvement in writing or in comedy, jump in and edit it. In fact, you can help without writing at all, such as organizing, watching for vandals, or even greeting other new users.

To write articles, you need a sense of humor and an ability to write good English. We all have strengths and weaknesses and you can get help in any area. But everyone needs an ability to work with other people. Be polite, positive, and helpful toward others, and assume others are doing the same toward you. Here are some pages that might help: Template:Writing funny stuff

For personal help

• The administrators are willing to help you, and several Uncyclopedians are willing to adopt you.
• I will watch this page for a while and will know if you edit it. Afterward, you can contact me on my own talk page.
• If you've written an article, we have a Proofreading service where someone will correct your mistakes, and a review process where an experienced Uncyclopedian will read your article and suggest improvements.

How to post to talk pages

Please follow these general rules:

• Add comments at the end of a talk page so people notice them.
• Start your paragraphs with one or more : characters to indent them and set them off from other people's posts.
• At the end, type ~~~~ (four tildes), which gets replaced by your user name and the current date and time.
• Don't delete anyone's messages. In case of any controversy, we depend on an accurate record of what was written. You may disavow your remarks by striking them through like this.

I hope you enjoy it here and write a lot of funny stuff! User:Spike/signature12:17 17-Feb-16

Calais

Now the page ends quite abruptly. How could I end it?

Thanks. – Preceding unsigned comment added by Placeholderusername (talk • contribs)

Thank you for asking. (See instructions above about signing/timestamping your posts to talk pages.) I think you will find a way. A snappy ending is a good thing for a page to have. The reason I deleted the ending you had is that it is not good when an article writer changes the focus to How it is being an article writer. Too many new writers find being a writer the most interesting thing, and it is unlikely to be entertaining to the reader. User:Spike/signature14:39 17-Feb-16

Chris Christie

I reverted you here. Using strikethrough immediately makes us look less like an encyclopedia and ought to be done only when there is a major increase in comedy. Where you did it, there is not, because the article had not yet begun. (See How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid for similar tips.) Your joke is the resemblance between Chris Christie and Fred Flintstone. That is worth developing, though I think it is not the basis of a full paragraph but as a drive-by thing, as I stuck in Chrispie Chream.

PS--Please get in the habit of clicking Preview to see how your edit will render, then continuing to edit, clicking Save only when you get to a good stopping point. Calais now shows 26 official changes, which makes it harder for our Patrollers to look through Special:RecentChanges to check for vandalism. Cheers! User:Spike/signature14:49 17-Feb-16

Thanks for all the help! Much appreciated.

I've changed this page by adding a quote at the top ("Yabba dabba doo!" - Chris Christie) and changing text from "...between Christie and Marco Rubio" to "between Chris Flintstone and Marco Rubble". I hope this works, although the quote may be a bit too much. – Preceding unsigned comment added by Placeholderusername (talk • contribs)

It is too much, as lately we are discouraging initial quotations. As Flintstone is not the theme of this particular article, I had already removed it, but your other change is exactly the right way to play this.

• Please read above about how to sign/timestamp your posts to talk pages!
• Please keep both halves of this conversation on this page, for the benefit of anyone who wanders by a year from now and wants to figure out what the hell we were talking about.

Cheers! User:Spike/signature22:52 17-Feb-16

Like this? Placeholderusername (talk) 22:54, February 17, 2016 (UTC)

Aha! Like that. Placeholderusername (talk) 22:54, February 17, 2016 (UTC)

Yes, except for the part about indenting your posts to set them off from mine. Separately, I replied to you at Talk:Calais. Even more separately, thank you for voting on VFH, but you do not get just one vote per user name lifetime; your vote for Harrogate is not that it should be main-page featured to the exclusion of other nominees. Please vote for or against everything! Then, if you have any energy left, go to Votes for deletion and vote on that stuff too! Finally, regarding your user page, if you are not satisfied with Placeholderusername, you may want to take advantage of a special name-change offer. This, in fact, is once per user name lifetime. Details are at the top of User talk:Sannse. User:Spike/signature12:34 18-Feb-16

PS--If you want a fancy signature, read UN:SIG. If you want everyone else not to see what pages are on your watchlist, turn off this "feature" by clicking My preferences at the top of any page. User:Spike/signature12:39 18-Feb-16

PPS--Admin Romartus reminds you at the article to add {{VFH}} at the top when nominating an article for honors. He did it for you this time. User:Spike/signature22:36 18-Feb-16

R.E: VFD

I can't vote on VFD. It doesn't give me an edit button. What should I do? TIA. --PlaceHolderUserName Me! My talk! 10:33, February 19, 2016 (UTC)

There are many pages that "new users" cannot edit, including any article that has been featured on the main page. This will not affect you much longer. Please resist the tendency to give everyone a piece of your mind on every page you visit. UN:SIG does display your user name, and not just because of the luck of your pick, but because it uses the {{USERNAME}} function, which does exactly that. Please resist the tendency to overuse this to prank your reader; it is only funny to you. At Jeb Bush, I already mentioned his brief affair with Jeb! and repeating this would be telling a joke too many times, also would be screwing with typography to make an article look less encyclopedic. Please avoid imitative humor (i.e., pranks) in favor of innovation. And do read How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid. Cheers! User:Spike/signature12:57 19-Feb-16

Like the sig Placeholderusername but you can ask Evil Incorporated if you want a new identity in case you get bored with this one. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:09, February 19, 2016 (UTC)

No, no, that's fine, I didn't intend on doing any pranking anyway. :)

With regards to UK wikipedia, is it possible to import pages onto there? The Calais article appeals more to British Humour than it does to American humour, and if I could I'd quite like to move it onto en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki as well (I'd do this myself). Thanks. --PlaceHolderUserName Me! My talk! 19:56, February 20, 2016 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, and welcome to the other Uncyclopedia, though it too, claims to be the one and only "real" Uncyclopedia. (The reality is that there are two.) I see you copied your user talk page over from Uncyclopedia Wikia. Folks around here don't like Wikia, due to some of their censorship policies, and their history of placing a content warning on every page (though it did boost search engine statistics for awhile, it drove off many would be editors - but that was removed later). You will find that people here dislike Spike as much as people on the Wikia site are willing to work with Spike and mostly get along with him (or else). There is far more tolerance for "potty humor" here, though it still has to be funny. There is less nitpickiness about certain rules. Unless you are an admin, you will not be able to import any articles, and you should not copy and paste any articles over except your own. You will also see the admins here joke ban each other on occasion. I miss that sometimes, but I am not often on this site due to working full-time from January to April. I am also not an admin here. You may want to actually archive this page so that the admins and users here can welcome you (though if you want you can consider this message an unofficial welcome). -- Simsilikesims(♀UN) Talk here. 06:40, 21 February 2016 (UTC)