User talk:Leo417/Archive

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Hi Leo. Your journal was deleted a few days ago because of the rule about keeping in-game character pages in the main namespace. To prevent it from being recreated again, you may want to edit the link to it on your user page to journal. Click on that and you'll be able to keep your character' journal in a safer place. -- Atticus Rex AMP ' T 22:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

   No worries, mate. It's part of learning to be a better editor. Oh, here: 

Hi Leo417! As we can see, you're new to this wiki. Welcome! It's OK to be new, and we encourage new blood to join and enrich our community. At the same time, we understand that no one is a perfect wiki editor straight off the bat, and so you could use some tips. Please take the time to read them all. General Editing

   * Never delete someone else's edits, comments, responses, etc. off of community pages. To do so is considered vandalism.
   * The correct way to sign an edit with a timestamp is "Leo417 23:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)", and there's this button Image:button_sig.png on the top of the edit page that writes it for you if you want. Just add Leo417 23:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC) to the end of your edit so that we can know who made it!
   * You may want to know how your edits will look before they have been saved, to make sure that nothing is wrong. Use the "Preview" button before the "Save" button; it's your friend!
   * If you're slow in your editing and there's an editing conflict, you might not understand the error that you get. The easiest way to overcome the edit conflict is to copy whatever you have been writing, go back with your browser, and then reenter the edit page so that you can add your edits without deleting those made before yours. 

Further help for editing the wiki can be found on the Help page. Project Mentor

Project Mentor has been recently set up to allow new wiki users to have a more experienced wiki veteran mentor them for the first few weeks. Visit its page for more information! Your User Page

One of the great things about the wiki is that every user can have his or her own user page! These pages are located in the User namespace — in other words, they all begin with "User:" (yours is User:Leo417). The appropriate place to write about yourself or your characters is on your user page, or a subpage of that page (e.g., User:Leo417/Your Character's Name). Do not create pages about yourself outside of the User namespace. Those pages will be moved into subpages of your user page, and speedily deleted. User Talk Pages

Every user has a talk page, found by clicking the "discussion" link at the top of his or her user page, or by going directly to it (yours would be [[User talk:Leo417). If you have a question for someone, or want to say something to him or her, his or her user talk page is the place.

However, many users on the wiki have established specific guidelines for how their user talk pages are to be treated — where new comments should go, how they should be written, what is or is not okay to talk about, etc. Be sure to look for guidelines on the talk page before you leave a comment.

If you don't see any guidelines specified, the assumption is that you should place your comment at the bottom of the talk page, under a level 2 heading. This can be accomplished by clicking the "+" link next to the "edit" tab at the top of the talk page, or by manually typing in your message in this format:

Message title

Your message goes here The Suggestions Page

We know that as a new user, you want to share your ideas with us. But a community as big as ours has already seen all kind of suggestions, and it's possible that we've already seen something very similar to the ideas you have. Follow these simple guidelines to make sure that your suggestion gets the respect that it deserves:

   * First of all, read the Suggestions Page's rules. 

   * We strongly recommend that you read the Suggestions Dos and Do Nots and the Frequently Suggested Ideas pages so that you will have an idea of what kind of suggestions are likely to be accepted and what kind are ridiculous in the eyes of the community. The pages might look long and time-consuming to read, but you will find them entertaining and helpful. 

   * You might also want to look at the Previous Days Suggestions. These contain a record of all previous suggestions. Use the search function in your browser to search for keywords relating to the suggestion you want to make. 

   * It may be helpful to wait a few days to get a feel for the wiki and the other users before subjecting your idea to any possible criticism. If you're unsure, the Suggestions Discussion page is good neutral territory to suggest, gather feedback, and refine your idea before officially submitting it. 

   * Write your suggestion using the Suggestions template. If it looks too complicated for you, ask for help. 

   * You can't modify a suggestion that you've written once it has been posted on the Suggestions page. You can withdraw and resubmit it with changes later, but only do that if people liked your original suggestion while requesting changes, not if it was Spaminated. 

Remember: These guidelines may look difficult to learn and follow, but they're mainly just common sense! Think about what you're going to say or do before you do it! If you don't make an effort to do so, then why would others have the obligation to be nice to you? Feel free to ask any Project Welcome member if you need help, that's our purpose anyways!

If you want to delete this text, just delete the

line from your talk page. Remember that you can always have access to these tips on the Project Welcome/Welcomenewbie page. -- Atticus Rex AMP ' T 22:46, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I moved the page to Journal:Leo417. Enjoy. --Max Grivas JG / M.F.T. 23:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Your talk page is your space, and realistically you can do whatever you like with it. In practice, though, many of us hate to simply delete what others have edited. A pretty common practice is to use an archive for the stuff you don't want to have cluttering up your talk page. For example, you might want to make a link somewhere on here to User talk:Leo417/Archive and then move all the older stuff there. (What happened on this particular page a few minutes ago was when I went to reply to your message, you were editing at the same time and we got an edit conflict; the easiest way out of it for me was just to copy the section and repaste it. You're entirely welome to delete anything I put on your page, and I hope you didn't think I was trying to imply that you can't.) One last piece of wiki etiquette: When you do post on others' group or talk pages, make sure you sign by clicking the second button from the right on the toolbar just above the edit window, or by adding four tildes Leo417 23:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC) to the end of your post. -- Atticus Rex AMP ' T 23:22, 29 October 2006 (UTC)