User talk:Kyonsalt

"Tips" pages
Hi – these aren't acceptable as mainspace articles. Perhaps you'd like to keep them in your userspace? If you did that by prefixing them with your username (User:Kyonsalt/Tipsonfreebsd, for example), you wouldn't have to worry about them being deleted. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 17:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Heya...
I saw (and deleted) your "tipsonwikipedia" and "tipsonfreebsd" articles. here's some thoughts:


 * 1) We already have Tips which is meant to house various Wikipedia tips. While it's admirable that you want to help with this effort, please also see that you aren't really duplicating the already coordinated work. =)
 * 2) Generally, all Wikipedia-related material has to be in Wikipedia: namespace (ie, the title has to say "Wikipedia:Something..." instead of just "Something...") We only put articles in normal namespace. As said above, you can use your user space for your own Wikipedia-related projects.
 * 3) Wikipedia is not really meant to be a tip collection. (See also what else Wikipedia is not.) Such articles have generally been deleted before. Nor is Wikipedia really a generic web host either. Uh... I suppose the FreeBSD tips would be more at home at a related book at Wikibooks. I think they had an Unix book.
 * 4) Page names can have spaces, and indeed, they're frequently used in article titles. =)

Never despair. Everyone's first attempts are probably confused. =)

I also see no one has yet given you the helpful lecture... --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 18:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

...so here's the obligatory tutorial:
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And have fun! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 18:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)