User talk:Claire loon

Hi, Claire, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed the article Carter Cooper that you created a few minutes ago. That kind of article is called a "redirect." You can automatically send someone to the complete article by typing "#REDIRECT article's name" (without the quotation marks), instead of "see article name . If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to leave me a message by clicking the "talk" link in my signature. Joyous! | Talk 04:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You got the note in exactly the right place. You're getting the hang of things already. To answer your question, there's no real definitive answer. You might read over this page to get an idea. That's actually one of my weak areas, also. If you need some real assistance with that, I'll be happy to track down someone who can help.  By the way, you can sign your messages by typing four tildes at the end, like this ~ . That leaves not only your username, but also the date and time.  Joyous! | Talk 04:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, I almost forgot. Here's one of our standard welcomes, with enough links to give you a heart attack.

RE:Carter Cooper
Generally speaking it is a bad idea to refer to other articles in that manner and using other Wikipedia articles to reference something is a no-no because Wikipedia is not a reliable source for itself. If it is already stated that way in the Gloria Vanderbilt article it is probably better to rewrite it a bit or quote directly from the book with a citation. Don't feel too bad about the cites. I was here for several months before I saw an aritcle that did it correctly, then I've basically copied the formatting from that one ever since.--Isotope23 20:20, 18 January 2007 (UTC)