User talk:Francispontifex

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Hello, Francispontifex, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! John of Reading (talk) 08:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Thanks for the welcome, John of Reading! I'm starting slow and am mostly making small updates on pages and the "current events" portal, for now. I will definitely read up on the links you provided, before I start making any major edits. Thanks, again! -- Francis Pontifex  08:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Hooray! You created your Teahouse profile!
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Thank you for introducing yourself and contributing to Wikipedia! ~ Anastasia (talk) 01:30, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thecanour
I see that you've given a warning for disruptive editing, on top of my welcomespam. Perhaps this is a bit much, considering the account only made one edit?

Generally I like to leave a welcome message of one kind or another at the top of a registered editor's talk page, even if the first edits were bad. This gives the editor some good links to read. There is a selection of "Welcome, but..." templates listed at Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, though I usually post them using Twinkle.

I hope this helps! -- John of Reading (talk) 12:49, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I probably should have left some sort of informal notice than a full-fledged warning, I'll admit. Although, the edit (deleting the whole of the day's current events and replacing it with spam redirecting to an external link did seem to be something not done with "good faith" in mind. Anyway, I'll make sure the user has multiple non-constructive/disruptive edits before I warn them in the future. Thanks for the heads-up! -- Francis Pontifex ( talk ) 15:01, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Gangalal Shrestha
Hello,, and thank you for your contributions!

I wanted to let you know it seems an article you worked on, Gangalal Shrestha, is copied from another Wikipedia page, Gangalal shrestha. It's fine to do this as long as you provide the following information in the edit summary:


 * 1) a link to the article you copied from
 * 2) the date you copied it

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Thanks again for helping build the free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 09:22, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I hope the situation has been rectified after the migration/redirect correction to fit the person's name. -- Francis Pontifex ( talk ) 09:38, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I have tagged Gangalal Shrestha with the histmerge template so that an admin can sort out the history of the two pages. Have a look at Copying within Wikipedia for more on this; it's not a good idea to rename a page by copying the content from one page into another. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:09, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping out and clarifying things, John of Reading. I found a lot of broken links and ended up taking the simplest(although apparently not the best) way around the problem. And, I have to say, you really work speedily! -- Francis Pontifex ( talk ) 11:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess I know my way around the templates and procedures by now, or at least I know where to look things up. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:53, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Maysara Abu Hamdiya


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About the mind vessel
Hi Francispontifex, i saw your page in the teahouse, i'm interested in the mind vessel subject, i was wondering if u can recommend me an article about it for reading. I would like to help expanding that topic. Alex&#39;s phone (talk) 19:16, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not too sure there is too much on the subject; the quote itself is my take on another quote that goes something like "the function of the human body is as a vessel for the human mind," with evolutionary thinking. It is just the application of Darwinian principles to philosophical concepts. (Which means, as of now, it is useless as a topic in Wikipedia, as it would be without credible sources.) -- Francis Pontifex ( talk ) 04:49, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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