User talk:Cactoblastoff

April 2011

Welcome!

Hello, Cactoblastoff, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 15:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• Hi Cactoblastoff, thanks for joining Wikipedia. The article below (is it a draft?) would be much better placed on a sub-page, rather than on your user talk page, where it might mislead readers into thinking that it's a real article. If you like, I can move if for you, and you can work on it just the same. Let me know. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Wait--this is actually a worked-on copy of Wikipedia's article, right? If you're working on improving the article, why not just do it on the real thing, Cactoblastis cactorum, explaining your edits in edit summaries as you go along? The work you do on this draft probably can't easily be copied and pasted into the real article. Drmies (talk) 15:51, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User talk:Cactoblastoff

User talk:Cactoblastoff, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Cactoblastoff and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:Cactoblastoff during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

I have moved the page to User:Cactoblastoff/Temp to separate it from the talk page. Cunard (talk) 23:19, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Information

Hiya Cactoblastoff. I know Wikipedia can be a little confusing for new editors, but here are a couple of points regarding what has gone on here over the last few days:

• User talk pages (like this one) are for discussions between editors about article/other things on Wikipedia, not for creating drafts of articles.
• Temporary drafts of articles can be made in what is known as a "sandbox" within your userspace, for example, if you wanted to draft a new article before it went what is known as "live" (or in the "article space"), you could do it on a page such as User:Cactoblastoff/Sandbox.
• Duplicates of existing articles are not permitted, and it is bad practice to duplicate an article in your userspace/sandbox. Reason for this is, a different editor may make changes/expand an article while you are doing your changes, and if you copy your changes over the new article, the "in between" edits are lost.
• If you copy an article from one place to another (which is generally bad practice, with the exception of a few cases), you have to provide attribution to the previous authors (for example, it looks like you alone wrote the article above), this attribution can be as simple as a link to the original article.

I hope these points will help you in your Wikipedia career, please feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any additional questions, I would be happy to help out. Cheers. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 23:34, 14 May 2011 (UTC)