User talk:Greenguy96

Hi Greenguy96. Welcome to English Wikiquote.

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Enjoy! WelcomeBot ^owner!_question? 06:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Some tips

I just wanted to pass along a few tips about Wikiquote that might make your work here a little easier.

• First, please sign your discussion-page posts with four tildes, as described above in the welcome message. The wiki editor automatically converts this to your username (with a link to your user page) and a date/time stamp. This may seem like a small matter, but given that this is perhaps the first measure of whether an editor is learning how things work on a Mediawiki project, experienced editors tend to lose patience with new folks who haven't mastered this basic step. That's their problem, of course, but it's an easy one to avoid triggering.

• You most certainly do get to vote in a discussion about an article you created, or in any other discussion here. You became a Wikiquotian when you first started reading Wikiquote, and your opinion on all matters is important.

• We advise anyone participating in deletion discussions to read Wikiquote:Deletion policy to learn how they work.

• Please don't take the sometimes rough-and-tumble deletion discussions too hard. Experienced Wikiquotians often use shorthand explanations that can seem dismissive, but aren't necessarily what they seem. I believe that most participants in these discussions would prefer to see nominated articles incorporate well-sourced, pithy quotes instead of deleting them, but it is easy to become a little jaded over time. Your work, if not exactly following guidelines, was clearly well thought-out. That's probably why most folks have only been commenting rather than voting. I've extended the discussion a week to give the community more time to consider.

• I've also restructured and reformatted the Steve Kagen article to meet Wikiquote guidelines, most notably those at Wikiquote:Templates/People. The most important change was making the sources explicit for easier review. Wikiquote is substantially different from Wikipedia in that much, possibly most, of our material falls under "fair-use" guidelines, so sources are far more important here.

If you have any questions about these or other matters, feel free to post a note to my talk page. And one last tip: I wouldn't recommend flattering the admins. It usually has the opposite effect of what's intended. ☺ ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC)