User talk:Plowdenc

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Also, I read your article on Clare Heald. Nice work. A hint, though, for the future: it's not a good idea to create an article as a bare-bones fragment of a sentence. "Clare Heald (28 August 1895 - xx march 1973), or as she was later to become, Clare Miller" is not an article, even with an "under construction" notice. We get a lot of people submitting pre-articles like that, and not ever coming back to fill them out, so we've gotten into the habit of deleting pre-articles as we find them. If you want to create the article a little piece at a time, it would be better to do so in a subset of your userpage, like so: user:Plowdenc/Sample Page; then, when the article is done, you can "move" it out into the main article space.

That said, let me repeat - welcome, I hope you enjoy participating in the project. DS 14:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Oops
I just noticed - you've created two article on Clare the Equestrian, one for her married name and one for maiden name, but with the same content. This is not how you should do it. Rather, the article should be under the name by which she was best known (Miller or Heald?), and the other article should be a "redirect". This is done by creating Article 2 whose content is " #redirect name of Article 1 ".

No harm done; this is just so you know. DS 14:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi there - thanks for all your help - I think I have sorted most of it now! Can't yet work out how to reply to you on your page.....so hope you read this thank you!!Plowdenc 20:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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To get a Wikipedia article to show up on Google searches, you have to wait a few days. We don't know how often they update their index (although we do know that it's done quite often). DS 00:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Keith Stainton (1921 - 2001).jpg
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File permission problem with File:Keith Monin Stainton (1921 - 2001).jpg
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