User talk:Bwyard

this is my talk page. Feel free to ask questions and post things that I can help with here.

Community Portal/Bulletin board
hi there! i noticed you wanted to add Wikiproject Extreme Sports to the bulletin board. If you look closely at the wikicode, there is a little formal process for proposing such a thing; really it is just for format and timing sake. Next time please be aware that you should make it look like the other entries and add a pull date. I've fixed it for you, so don't worry about this time. :) JoeSmack Talk (p-review!) 16:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Portals and so forth
Hi Bwyard and welcome to Wikipedia!

Portals, userpages and images are kinda secondary to our main purpose here. You'll be better off throwing yourself into an existing portal and editing articles (our main purpose), making either "wikignome" edits (little but valuable edits) or expanding articles (take a bad article and make it better).

If you'd like an unwanted tip from me, click the "Random article" link on the left of your screen (a coupla times if needed!) until you find an article that needs love and attention. Give that article some love and attention. Do the same again a few times, then Esperanza is likely to pitch up here and thank you for your work - they do that type of thing - and invite you to join them. They have lots of people who can help with your userpage etc. Most of Wikipedia's best users have developed a user page after they've started serious editing.

If the random article thing doesn't help, go to User:SuggestBot and add your name where the bot suggests. After a little bit of time, she'll get back to you and you'll have a list of articles she thinks (she's a robot, she doesn't "think" as such, but still... :) you might like.

I'm going to drop you a welcome message below. We try to send these to everyone when they first get involved, but you might have been missed (sorry!). The links in it are a hard read, but well worth it!

Give me a shout if I can help again. ➨  ЯEDVERS 

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 * Welcome to to wikiproject mathematics. I put your name in the correct place in the list. You may like to add some details on your interests and a bit of background about yourself. You may also like to add WT:WPM to your watch list. Thats the place where the mathematical community hang out. --Salix alba (talk) 17:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Trading Spaces
Hello, I have seen your message on my talk page and have made a draft please feel free to ask me about it. London UK ( talk ) 16:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * it is good how do i use itBwyard 16:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Edit the page copy the text and paste it on your userpage. London UK  ( talk ) 16:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

email address
Hi, noticed you had your email address on your user page. This is probably not a good idea as lots of email spammers will find it. Rather than have an email address you can go to your preferences and register an email address there. Once you've done this there will be a link in the toolbox on the left of the screen with a link to click to send an email. --Salix alba (talk) 17:01, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Come fly with us

 * —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * you responded on my talk page with wanting to know how to download mIRC. The link to the download is here. Click on one of the download links (assuming that you are on Microsoft windows), and it will download. Then run the install program once it is on (just double click the .exe). Basically from there it is simple, you join server irc.freenode.org and join channel #wikipedia-spam. Do keep in mind that that client is shareware and you will have to pay $20.00 to use after 30 days. There are free alternatives I can point out if you would like. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 20:02, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Freware and links to the download pages:


 * Chatzilla <only works if you have FireFox
 * IceChat < Works if you have Windows, will work with any browser.
 * If you have Linux let know. I can dig up a client for that somewhere. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Extreme sports being considered for deletion
This is to inform you that the portal you created above is being considered for deletion. Please feel free to go to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Extreme sports to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Badbilltucker 14:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW
Hey Bwyard, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 18:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Colt David
I created an article about the LSU kicker Colt David, and was wondering if you'd like to help expand it. --HPJoker (talk) 21:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

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Women in Red World Contest
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