User talk:Ploughstar

Love Wiki. Looking for some guidance please Gimme danger

Adoption
Hey. I'm willing too adopt you, and if you accept, you can contact me here. Elenseel 04:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. I'm actually on vacation until the 30th of July, so I'll be available to help at some point, when I have an Internet connection. If you have any questions, just leave them here, and I'll answer them as soon as possible. Other wise, the Help Desk is there too. Thanks! Elenseel 16:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry I wasn't able to get back earlier, but now I'm here to help. If you need anything at all, just ask me at my talk page, or do it here. Elenseel 19:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Honey time and Honey Time
I've done several things to cleanup these articles; since you're new and interested in regular editing, I'll explain what I've done.

First, you somehow managed to create two different articles with nearly identical names, differing only in the case of the 2nd word. I managed to do that myself as new user, I don't remember exactly how, but it's not a major problem. I merged the textual differences into just one of the articles, and made the other a "redirect" to the first one; now, no matter where people go, they get to the one page with the text. I picked Honey time to be the dominant article; this is in-line with general Wikipedia naming conventions (e.g. Ferber method or Shared parenting). Mostly-capital article titles are normally used only for proper titles, such as You Only Live Twice or Happy Birthday to You.

I've fixed your attempts to categorize the articles; you used a template-style syntax instead of category-style; categories are added like, templates are added like. As you discovered, a category can be added using template style, but it has some negative side-effects, the two biggest being that it can cause seemingly odd things to be added into the text of your article if/when descriptive comments are added to the category itself, and it also causes the article to be added to every category to which the original category is a sub-category. The latter might sound like a positive thing, but some categories are intended to only be "meta-categories" - categories of categories - in a category hierarchy, and having articles tossed into those categories breaks the plan and severly annoys the category gnomes... Also, in one of the two articles, you tried to use the "Children" category, which is for biographical articles about particular children... I kept the "Child rearing" category you chose in the other article, a good choice.

I've also cleaned up your referencing. Good job on using reference formatting in the text of the article! Most new users don't become aware of that for a bit. What you missed though is that there's a way (several actually), to automatically make the embedded references appear later in a "References" section. I used my favorite method, the template, but there's several popular variations. Also, I added a "name" field inside your "ref" tag. It wasn't strictly needed, but if you have an article with multiple cites of the same reference, you can use the, instead of repeating the same details over and over in a block.

Please don't be discouraged by all of the above, as a new editor you did a very good job starting out. Wikipedia is a big complex thing and nobody knows it all here; about once a month I learn some major new thing myself, without even trying. I don't regularly do new user help because my availability is very irregular - I sometimes disappear from WP for a month or two - but if you have a particular question about the above, feel free to "talk" at me and I'll get back to you eventually. Gimme danger 19:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Still looking for an Adopter?
I noticed that you have an open request to be adopted, but that Elenseel has already adopted you. If you would like another adopter, I'm an experienced editor dealing mostly with gnoming work (categorization, assessment, grammar, references) and would be happy to assist you. Otherwise, please consider removing your request. --Gimme danger 19:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Talkback
Gimme danger (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Nother message for you guvner. --Gimme danger (talk) 01:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Classroom open
Hi there! I apologize about being late; I moved and was unexpectedly cut off from the Internet for nearly a week. (To think that for thousands of years civilization persisted without any internet at all. *shudder*) Your classroom is up here. You'll probably want to put that page on your watchlist. Cheers, Gimme danger (talk) 19:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)