User talk:Gisbutwada

Welcome to Wikipedia, and apologies
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia; normally there's some "welcoem templates" but other editors are more familiar than I with them and hopefully one will come by and place one, as they contain links to various helpful pages such as WP:MOS, WP:AUTO, WP:What Wikipedia is not, WP:NPOV, WP:OWN and more - WP:Good faith and WP:Be bold are worth reading - you defintely "were bold" but there are limits to how that works.... I dropped by because I saw your edits to the Potlatch article and was forced to reverse them - please see my explanation on that article's talkpage. Please do not be dismayed or offended; it's just that major changes should be dsicussed on the talkpage first so that drastic changes to an article do not prompt an edit war, and also so that one point of view does not override others. I invite you to join NorthAmNative (WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America]] and also WikiProject Canada and WikiProject British Columbia. Indigenous contributors and editors are greatly needed to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of indigenous-content articles, and also to help kibbitz on other articles where indigenous history/culture is mentioned or described or otherwise involved (e.g. History of the west coast of North America to name one of many).  Anyway, please stay and learn the ropes, your presence is greatly appreicated, it's just that Wikipedia has a certain "editorial culture" and innumerable guidelines and conventions, as well as styleguide issues such as how to add citations preoprly and more.  I and other active editors are always around to help out oradvise, adn we're all interested in improving content/coverage and makign sure additions are done properly so that they will survive edits/actions by contributors/admins from far afield who have the power and do use it to remove unwarranted materials, or improperly cited or phrased materials; easeir to confer first, then act in consesus. Took me a while to learn too, and it's not always easy to be patient; but the goal is a comprehensive encyclopedic article that doesn't reflect biases and includes alll valid points of view....Again, welcome and apologies, and please stick around - "we" need you.....Skookum1 (talk) 16:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You're also welcome to create your own userpage about who you are and what your interests are; mine's pretty awful but see user:OldManRivers for inspiration (or user:Phaedriel, though Phaedriel - a Cheyenne and until she went on WP:wikibreak teh doyenne of the indigneous project, and a very wise contributor and admin - is not longer all that active due to maternal "leave"....Skookum1 (talk) 16:40, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Later today or tomorrow, I'm going to try and integrate the information you added/overrode into the article "properly"; I didn't have time to read it in detail, and there's lots in that article that needed improving/rewording/expanding anyway. I think you['ll find once I'm done, or maybe OldManRivers or another editor adds their two bits, that most of your inforamtion is there; just not in a way that derides or downgrades other information, and where the cites are all properly done; if you can provide full publication data on your sources, print or web or otherwise, taht would be great.  Dustin (OldManRivers) has been able to cite things taht are only in teh Squamish Nation libary, for instance; see Skookum1 (talk) 16:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Shannon Thunderbird
I have nominated Shannon Thunderbird, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Shannon Thunderbird. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Plastikspork (talk) 18:43, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

License tagging for File:S&S4 TU.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Photo of Shannon Thunderbird.jpg
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