User talk:Jenna Fair

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Hello, Jenna Fair, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages 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! JohnCD (talk) 18:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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Your Neuromechanics page
I have deleted a lot of non-existent user accounts, blank redirects etc. I am sorry that you found this confusing, but you are not alone. You made two mistakes: The proper title for a draft would look like "User:Jenna Fair/Neuromechanics". The best way to start a draft page is to click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title; that will make a draft page for you in the proper form, with some useful links.
 * You made a draft page in your actual main user page at User:Jenna Fair and then moved it. The problem with doing that is that your user talk page, where messages for you like this arrive, gets moved with it and ends up in the main encyclopedia. Your main user page is intended for you to say something about yourself and your Wikipedia work, if you choose, to assist communication within the project - see WP:User pages.
 * You made a page "User:Jenna Fair\Neuromechanics" but used a backslash \ instead of a forward-slash /. In every sort of page title except a main space article, a forward-slash denotes a sub-page; but a backslash is just another character, so what you did was set up a user-page for a non-existent account.

What is worrying me now is that I did not find any actual content in all the chain of redirects and non-existent-user pages I have deleted. Did you actually have an article in there somewhere? If so, can you remember where you last saw it? I will do my best to find it for you. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Stop press: I see another user, was helping at the same time, and the page is now at Neuromechanics. Panic over. JohnCD (talk) 18:11, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for all of your help. I truly appreciate your efforts!Jenna Fair (talk) 20:31, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Some more tidying up
There is still a copy of the article at User:Jenna Fair/sandbox/Neuromechanics. You can keep that if you like, but it is generally not a good idea to have multiple copies of an article around, the danger being that they get independently edited so that histories diverge, and an eventual merge is complicated and messy, or risks losing something. Unless you have a reason for wanting to keep that, I recommend that you request its deletion by putting db-user at the top. That is a request to delete which you can use on any page in your own userspace.

There are also remaining redirects at User:Jenna Fair/Lower limb neuromechanics and User:Jenna Fair/Neuromechanics which you can keep or tag for deletion as you like. JohnCD (talk) 22:40, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Advice on moving pages
You are not the only one to find the "Move" page confusing; it is worth taking a little time to study the drop-down list at the left. If you are moving something into the main encyclopedia, you need to select "(Article)" from the top of the list, not "Wikipedia", which is for pages to do with the working of the encyclopedia, like Deletion policy or Help desk. If you are moving something into your own userspace, you need to select "User" and then make sure that in the right-hand box you put your username, followed by a forward-slash and then the page title. Then double-check before clicking "Move page" - unfortunately there is no "preview" available with this function.

I am sorry that this is all rather a maze - the saving grace is that there are usually human guides available, either at the WP:Help desk or by putting helpme at the bottom of your talk page with a question below it.

Congratulations, by the way, on producing a first article which (though I have not read it all) seems better than 99.9999% of what we see in the New Pages stream! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:43, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * If I delete the page in my sandbox or my user page, will that delete anything that has already been moved to an article? Thanks, Jenna Fair (talk) 22:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * No, it won't. JohnCD (talk) 07:26, 18 November 2013 (UTC)