User talk:Scooters

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Thanks Col. I am new to this and have spent many hours reading the site to get the4 flavour of the humour. I'm not sure what I did wrong but my first article was huffed withinn an hour - disheartening as no reason was given other than "cake?" and I had spent several hours writing it and checking the loose facts around which to base the article. It may be a cultural thing - a UK or commonwealth reader would immediately understand the point of the article - branded bscuits (cookies) are very popular especially the older ones. The Garibaldi was in fact invented ion the 1850's in and named after Giuseppui Garibaldi who developed a combat ration simlar to the current biscuit for his troops in the war of Italian Reunification. He is a hero of the socialist movement and his biscuit remainsd very popular....

I can understand if it was deleted because format wasn't right but don't understand why it was deleted...any suggestions would be welcome. I confess to feeling quite depressed and until I understand the reasons, am unlikely to bother to give up any more time writing articles.. thanks Scooters--Scooters 13:41, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

First articles

I saw your note on Lyrithya's page.

I understand. My first article was huffed (jargon for deleted) before I was even partway done. If something is not ready for publication, it is often best to start them in protected space - our Userspace eg User:Scooters/Sandbox then once it looks fine, start the article creation process on the name you wish, and copy the code from the sandbox version and paste in in place.

I did not have the chance to read your Garibaldi Biscuits article, but perhaps Lyrithya could resurrect it and put it in your user space to work on. Most likely the article was not of a finished quality, and in her patrol of the site, it looked like fluff. You have no idea how many articled are created with virtually no content, or clearly in need of drastic copy editing. Its a fast process and a snap judgment. To prevent this in main space, place {{construction}} at the top until you have time to make the final edits.

Also there is a button that looks like a scribble you should click before saving when you leave notes on pages, alternatively you can type 4 ~ (on many US Keyboards left of key for 1)--K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 13:18, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

You have the idea, but not here, this is like your message board. freally, click the red link above and past it there. --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 13:38, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I am very confused as I have read many articles on this site and spent several hours writing this one. To have it removed with the one word "Cake?" is very irritating...is this because, in his poinion, cake isn't funny? The Garibaldi Biscuit is that - a Biscuit or a Cookie.

If it is because it is poorly formatted I understand but if it has been pinged merely because in the opinion of one person, who probably didn't read it - then it has changed my opinion of the site for the negative and I wo't bother contributing or reading it again.

User:Scooters/Garibaldi biscuit

It will be much easier for people to help if you edit your story at the link immediately above. and Lyrithya is obsessed with Cake, she probably saw your article, felt it needed work and decided she wanted cake. The delete reason, ideally would have been more clear. I still have not looked at the article yet, but I did copy what you pasted above to a new userspace article in the headline of this section. work on it there, and I will continue discussing the article on "its" talk page--K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7

Deleting other persons comments

It is not allowed to delete other persons words on other peeople's talk pages. At best, respond below with some :: indents. While everything can be recreated, if editors were allowed to edit what people say, it could be very confusing. the research to decide who said what would be exhausting.

I replaced my comment that you deleted on Lyrithya's page, and will chalk it up to your n00b status. Yes it makes sense that you ask and I had already asked, but the precedent of deleting comments overrides the perceived redundancy of the requests. That is what the time stamp is for. If things look strange someone can follow the flow with the time stamps.

You seem to be picking things up well, I am trying to speed things along with the undelete, via IRC--K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 14:46, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hi K lips - bit confused as if I did delete it it was in error - I've not yet visited her page to read your post on her takl page.

The only thing I have deleted is the cut and paste of the inital article I put on my talk page, as you suggested....

link

very odd - I will look at her page now

--Scooters 14:59, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

just checked my log and I haven't visited her page since 1400 this afternoon- are you sure it was me?

--Scooters 15:01, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

- its moot, but good news is your huffed page is on the talk page of the one you are editing. cheers --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 15:02, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I ,must have done it in error - I'm using an Asus EEPC with a tiny keyboard and it's quite east to accidentally relocate the curser..thanks for your assistance today - the edited article we have worked on is now the best one - I have a few more pics to add - how do I submitt the article for peer review before republishing?

cheers again--Scooters 15:06, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

again, I understand. My hp likes to copy paste randomly read characters all the time. with wikis you really have to pay attention with the edit window and the preview window. Again I can stress it is no big deal, and you understand why it could be a big deal, but its all been fixed, you have your article and by the way here is the issue I was addressing which you may have looked at. Cheers - --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 15:13, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Compadres

The reason I took up your cause so aggressively was the same thing happened to me back in 2005.

I wrote my "masterpiece" a satirical Biography of a real person, that has a funny name. I felt he was famous but my admin had not heard of him. The delete log said simply np - I found that meant non-notible and the person glanced at the article decided it was about someone's friend or dad or teacher or something, because it was sp outrageous in its assertions. In it I asserted the creator of Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch was William Shakespeare.

I researched the notability policy and decided that under it my subject was notable. My note to him was an OCD research project from hell. I listed his Google Hits, his Wikipedia article, his sons google hits, my google hits my town mayor's google hits all for comparability,. I forget what else all. he was like "OK OK I dint know who he was!" LOL

So I wanted to help you. But I still need to read the article. its quality was immaterial to me. But Lyrithya may have decided it was of none, but we you can fix that. --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 15:20, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

sorry to pester you again but how the hell do I embed pictures - I've spent the last hour digging around and am no wiser --Scooters 15:23, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

I think you may have figured it out. But here are some common methods

[[file:image.jpg|thumb|left|hilarious joke]]
will produce a thumbnail of image.jpg in a frame
with ''hilarious joke'' as a caption.

[[""|""|right|""]] same but on right.

[[""|200px|""|""]] will force the mage to be size width of 200 pixels

<gallery>
File:image1.jpg
File:image2.jpg
File:imagen.jpg
</gallery> is bets suited for the bottom, and makes a thumbnail gallery of enclosed images.

Hope this helps --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 16:06, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

fantastic, thanks again - I think I have got it--Scooters 16:07, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Siege of scrotum

Is the siege of scrotum based on a real battle, if so which one? or do you have a groin fixation? if the latter, I will link to penis. if the former, let me know. I have been trying to get rid of the red links. --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 21:48, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

it's made up so I clearly have a groin fixation! feel free to link it to Penis

I'm polishing the content a bit and getting rid of some of the rambling

--Scooters 21:50, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

No problem, I just didn't want to link to penis if there was some siege of scrotsburgum that I did not know about.  :-) --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 21:56, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

and see this in my user talk--K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 22:52, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

finished

thats looking much better - the text is now finished...dare we publish it? --Scooters 22:18, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

I went ahead and did. --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 22:28, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

cheers....my next effort will be better! and on a non ambient baked product topic - cheers again Richard--Scooters 22:33, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Now make your user page --K evilLips MUN,CM,NS,3of7 22:39, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Are you still interested in adoption?

You did not get back to me, so I came by wondering whether you still wished to be adopted. You seem to be doing ok, but if you need any help I should be about slightly more if you have any questions etc:)--Sycamore (Talk) 22:09, May 14, 2011 (UTC)