User talk:Drunauthorized

Welcome

 * Hey, I see you've been working on the Spokane, WA article! That's great! Recently there's been some drama involved in the article... a user I was helping had adding a ton of stuff to the article, but just a few weeks ago it was found out that they plagiarized some online websites and just copied and pasted that stuff into the Wikipedia article. That user has now since left, but I just wanted to let you know, in case you cared, that this article is well on its way to Featured Article status (the highest quality article status that Wikipedia has). If you take a look at the "article history" on the talk page, you can see the link for the last FAC, and what concerns were brought up (and perhaps you could help us fix them :-D). Anyways, just wanted to drop you a note and personally welcome you (in addition to that template I left above). Killiondude (talk) 15:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcoming users
Hiya,

Great to see you're welcoming new users, but there's something important; don't put on their page - instead, put. The former just leaves the transcluded template tag on their page, which may be confusing for them, as they can't see the 'code'. If you use {{subst:, all the code from the template it written to their page when you save.

See the old revision of the page, here - edit that, and you'll see what I mean. Compare that to the current one that I edited.

Also, please make sure you put the welcome into a section; it gets the new user off to a good start, regarding the management of their talk page.

Don't be put off though; keep up the good work, and if you need help, you can always talk to us live. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  18:46, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

"essay-like"?
Can you explain in what respects the article you tagged in this edit looks like a "personal-reflection or essay"? Michael Hardy (talk) 00:15, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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