User talk:LNG123


 * Let me be the first to welcome you and commend you on your enthusiasm and ability to follow instructions. The Wikipedia mantra is BE BOLD. For me at least, just making an account took a great deal of courage. The next logical step in your Wikipedia indoctrination is to energize your home page. It will serve as an excellent place to learn some of the basic wiki-codes without dorking up an article. Editing skills will require some experimentation and self teaching. The easiest way to start is to visit others and “steal” some ideas. By that - I mean click the edit tab and see their html codes which you can copy and paste into yours. CAREFUL --- don’t edit their page…. COPY not cut!!!!! You can then adjust it to reflect your own personal style. Feel free to be creative. Try to provide some insight into who you are while still maintaining your Anonymity. Personally I like the community’s use of user boxes to provide some insight into your way of thinking.  --JimmyButler (talk) 02:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)



User Page
User Page looks fine. You are off to a good start. --JimmyButler (talk) 16:05, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I saw this line: Over 451,000 Americans die of coronary heart disease every year about a topic that consist of something like two sentences?!!!. It is either a major topic in serious neglect or their is a counterpart already out there that covers it under a different heading. We might need to ask around to see which.--JimmyButler (talk) 00:09, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi there
I saw you requested some guidance from, but then removed the request..if you're still looking, please feel free to call on me. By the way, you can feel free to let your teacher know that a pretty experienced Wikipedia editor thinks that getting an article to GA is a pretty tough assignment for a 10th grade class! Not impossible by any means, but it will take a lot of work. I am happy to help where I can, and am interested to know how it goes! By the way, the Oregon WikiProject's blog might be helpful, we try to write a fair amount of tips for new editors. Happy editing! -Pete (talk) 01:32, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Glad to help! Sorry, my knowledge of biology is not great, so I'm not sure I can help you determine whether the stub you chose should be merged with the existing, similarly-named article or not. My suggestion would be to post a question on the discussion page for WP:BIOLOGY. That looks like a reasonably active WikiProject, where people with more experience with biology-related articles can weigh in on whether expanding or merging that stub is the best thing to do. It would be very frustrating for you to spend a lot of time on an article only to have it merged with an existing one, so getting some informed opinions ahead of time is a very good idea.
 * Also, if you haven't already, you should look at the Good article criteria page, to get a sense of what is expected of a good article; and look at a few Good article reviews. You will find the reviews on the discussion page of a GA. Here is a list of some GA's I'm familiar with; click on any one of them, then click on the "discussion" tab, and look for a section called "GA review" (or something similar). It's important to look at more than one, as different GA reviewers approach the task differently; some are very exacting, others are a little more lenient (not unlike high school teachers, I guess!)
 * I hope that helps, let me know how that all goes. -Pete (talk) 02:30, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:BIRDS!
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Writing about birds
I've been working on an essay to help people writing articles on birds, and since it is your class assignment I thought I'd share it with you. Check it out at User:Sabine's Sunbird/Writing Bird Articles. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  02:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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Checks
Sometimes I get a bit lost in all the text of "to-do" lists. Checks like these: ✅ and have become my best friends! I would suggest that you use them not only to keep your own head straight, but to let the people who are helping you know what you have/haven't addressed. --Yohmom (talk) 22:32, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

You have mail!
Re-did your GA nomination review. Still a fail (sorry!) but it's cleaned up and at least you can perhaps understand what you need to fix better. The green cross means good while that nasty red minus is bad (and the ? means I'm not certain... probably leaning to bad). Hope it clarifies some of the issues. Also, be sure to take a look at those tips several people have posted on your article's talk page - your GA nom. has spurred increased interest and support! :-) FoodPuma 23:40, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

GA Review


 * Btw, ellen, check my talk page out. Seems my mentor has posted a response to your question (if you haven't seen it already). FoodPuma 23:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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Congratulations!
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 * style="vertical-align:top; border-top:1px solid gray; color:" | The March of the Macaroni Penguin! Congratulations on your successful GA. --JimmyButler (talk) 23:04, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * style="vertical-align:top; border-top:1px solid gray; color:" | The March of the Macaroni Penguin! Congratulations on your successful GA. --JimmyButler (talk) 23:04, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

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your sandbox
nice article in your sandbox. I have disabled the categories, though; they shouldn't be used until the article is moved to mainspace... I happened to stumble across your sandbox-page in all of them. Cheers! Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 13:24, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Main page appearance: Macaroni Penguin
This is a note to let the main editors of Macaroni Penguin know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on December 2, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Today's featured article/December 2, 2011. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director or his delegate, or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:



The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it bears a distinctive yellow crest, and the face and upperparts are black and sharply delineated from the white underparts. Its diet consists of a variety of crustaceans, mainly krill, as well as small fish and cephalopods; the species consumes more marine life annually than any other species of seabird. Numbering up to 100,000 individuals, the breeding colonies of the Macaroni Penguin are among the largest and densest of all penguin species. After spending the summer months breeding, penguins disperse into the oceans for six months; a 2009 study found that Macaroni Penguins from Kerguelen travelled over 10000 km in the central Indian Ocean. With about 18 million individuals, the Macaroni Penguin is the most numerous penguin species. However, widespread decline in populations have been recorded since the mid 1970s. These factors result in their conservation status being reclassified as vulnerable. (more...) UcuchaBot (talk) 00:02, 2 December 2011 (UTC)