User talk:Colinwar
Please see the message I have just left at commons:user talk:Colinwar. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:08, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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History of Veterinary Medicine edit-a-thon 04.07.2016
[edit]Hello again, Colinwar!
Thank you so much for taking part in the training session today. I hope that you enjoyed it and that we'll see you on Wiki again soon.
Now that you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.
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How universities are teaching with Wikipedia
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Editing Wikipedia brochure
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Instructor Basics, How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool
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Illustrating Wikipedia brochure
If you're not feeling bold enough to write an (other) article straight away, why not try a small edit first, or adding a link? Don't worry about being perfect, Wiki is a constantly evolving entity. Fortunately there's a whole team of editors just like you who can help.
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- Is your topic notable enough for an article?
- Be Bold!
- Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
- Learn from others
- How to write a great article
- A simplified manual of style
The University of Edinburgh are also looking into running lots more edit-a-thons over the course of the residency where you could get extra practice in a friendly communal environment (with fellow editors, tea, coffee & biscuits) – details are still to be confirmed but will be updated on my project page here: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
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on your talk page and ask your question there. See you soon! Stinglehammer (talk) 22:21, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
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Your draft article, Draft:Gerald Rowley Leighton
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Hello, Colinwar. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Gerald Rowley Leighton".
In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}
or {{db-g13}}
code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CatcherStorm talk 16:40, 3 March 2017 (UTC)