User talk:Ijoust

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River Rats
Regarding Elgin City River Rats Airsoft and all related images and links: please do not post wikilinks or external links in places where they do not belong. In Airsoft, we've made a policy that no local clubs, fields, or communities will be posted. In other articles such as OPFOR and Historical reenactment, the links just don't belong, as there's no particular relevence. Many people consider this to be spam; you can read wikipedia's policy on spam here: Spam. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. --UNHchabo 06:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Beg your pardon: I am new to wikipedia. What is the best way to contact you?

I also wanted to add, our group is the first of its kind to ever participate with the United States military in trianing excercise. I believe it is relevant to any entries dealing with airsoft, OpFor, or historical reenactment.


 * For future reference, usually the best place to contact someone is their talk page. For example, if you click on my username, and then click the "discussion" tab up top, you'll be at my talk page. However, since this discussion has been started here on your talk page, we might as well keep it here. Anyway, before you go posting wikilinks in very prominent places, what I suggest you do is improve the article. As it stands, it has the tone of a self-promotion, which goes against Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (WP:NPOV), and it's written by someone involved in the group, which goes against the Conflict of Interest policy (WP:COI). I suggest you write it in a more encyclopedic tone, otherwise someone may nominate the article for deletion, as they did with the other article. In order to be notable (WP:N), a subject must have sources cited. Was there newspaper coverage of the group skirmishing with the National Guard unit? Post a link. Overall, I recommend you read some of the policies, and go through some more minor edits first, like taking care of vandalism (WP:VAND), or spelling/grammar errors, so that you can get a feel for the place. Take a look at the Welcome notice I put up above. I hope you enjoy yourself here. --UNHchabo 07:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your critique UNHchabo. I see I've made some (inadvertant) mistakes with my article. I'll take your advice to heart and do a little polishing. 12:47am, 12 November 2006.


 * Sure thing. I'd rather see you learn some of the policies and understand why people do what they do, rather than get frustrated and leave with a bad taste in your mouth. Glad to see you're sticking around. :) --UNHchabo 08:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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