User:Well-rested/Diamondbox

Stuff I learned from my GAN nomination of Underground City (Beijing)

 * State all information as fact
 * Avoid phrases that seem thrown in
 * Citation template is "Author's_Last_Name, Author's_First_Name. "Title in quotation marks (linked with URL)". Publisher (Publishing Date). Retrieved on date." where dates are wikilinked as YYYY-MM-DD
 * References should come after the punctuation mark.
 * Typically, the reference will be provided at the end of the sentence, unless it helps with organization.

The Suitman saga
This started when I CSDed a page I found on Special:NewPages that was a rather whimsical biography. After CSDing repeats of the page and explaining to the user that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, he began creating new articles in an attempt to communicate with me, and the following, well, follows:

From my talk
Hi. I have User:Suitman/Suitman496 under surveillance. Do you want me to delete your own userpage and make it redlink? - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry. I didn't realize what he was doing and it confused me. He's acting in good faith so I won't block him, but he needs a nudge. Please keep watching him; I'm about to log out. - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * oops, I've just blocked him, do you want me to unblock?jimfbleak (talk) 07:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll leave the block for now, but maybe lift fairly soon. jimfbleak (talk) 07:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea. Will let him know that he should take things a bit more seriously here, but won't hurt too much. Thanks for the help!- Samuel  Tan  07:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

From Richardcavell's talk
Hi Richard. Thanks for the idea of shifting Suitman496's biography to his user talk. I was trying to CSD the many, many articles he was creating (and almost CSDed his user talk in the process - removed the template in time heh). He is now creating articles called Editing User talk:Samuel Tan (comment) in an attempt to contact me, in response to some explaining I did to him about his CSDed article, because he doesn't know how to use user talk pages. What is normally done in cases like this, where the author is repeatedly doing nonsensical things because he does not know how to use Wikipedia? Temporary block? Just curious. Cheers! - Samuel  Tan  07:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I have User:Suitman/Suitman496 under surveillance. Do you want me to delete your own userpage and make it redlink? - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No but thanks, unless he starts vandalising my userpage, at which point I will report him until the cows (and various other animals) come home. I'll be monitoring the list of new pages too for a while, in case he creates more articles in an attempt to contact me. Looks like it doesn't pay to be friendly to some people :) - Samuel  Tan  07:24, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

From Jimfbleak's talk
Hi. I have User:Suitman/Suitman496 under surveillance. Do you want me to delete your own userpage and make it redlink? - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry. I didn't realize what he was doing and it confused me. He's acting in good faith so I won't block him, but he needs a nudge. Please keep watching him; I'm about to log out. - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * oops, I've just blocked him, do you want me to unblock?jimfbleak (talk) 07:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

(The above chat copied from my talk page.)
 * I'll leave it to your descretion. Basically a good-faith editor who wants his friends to know about him (so creates articles about himself), and doesn't know how to use talk pages (so creates articles to communicate with me, because I was a bit too nice with explaining how Wikipedia works to him). Up to you. Cheers!- Samuel  Tan  07:30, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Jim. I suggest unblocking Suitman/Suitman496. I userfied the biography that he's trying to create. I think his creation of a talk page in a faulty namespace was just innocent error. - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)