User talk:Doc Sheldon

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:46, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Your user page
Hello. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to your userpage. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Please don't be offended, and please feel welcome here. I encourage you to help build the encyclopedia. If there is anything you ever need, just ask. Best wishes, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:46, 6 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello, Anna. Thank you for the welcome. I checked the Welcome page before preparing my user page, and I thought I had avoided any sort of soapboxing or promotion. I guess I'm not clear on what a User page should include. I was approaching it as a sort of generic profile page, which was obviously wrong. I even looked at a couple of user pages, to try to get an idea.
 * Looking at your user page, aside from your graphic, I only see a (very impressive) list of edits, disambiguations and new pages. So am I correct in assuming that my page should be empty, until I have performed some of those tasks (unless I were to upload a graphic)?
 * I really want to do this right, so I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer.


 * Certainly you can immediately add lots of things to your userpage. It is intended for basic information about yourself or your Wikimedia-related activities. Although a lot of leeway is allowed in personalizing your user page, it is not a personal website, blog, or social networking medium, nor should it be used to promote yourself, or host a fake article, CV, or lengthy biography. Inspect the userpage of others. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I've tried it again, Anna. I hope this is an acceptable format. Again, thanks for your assistance.


 * It's great! Also, you can add an image if you wish. There are 20,118,652 freely usable images here. Images go like this: picture-of-a-bunny.jpg


 * Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:40, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Great! Sorry to be a newbie pest, but just one more question. Can I use an image of my own, that is hosted elsewhere, like photobucket or flikr?