User talk:R'nway

Welcome from ulayiti
Hello, ! I'm ulayiti, and I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions, and I hope you'll like the place enough to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Editing tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style
 * How to avoid common mistakes

When commenting on talk pages or voting, you should always sign your name by typing in four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;). This way people will know who made the comment and can respond to you. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me on my talk page. You can also have a look at the help pages or put up a question at the village pump. Welcome to Wikipedia, and happy editing! - ulayiti (talk)  08:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a how-to guide.
Hi, I see you've created the article List of advice for IB students. While this kind of advice is no doubt useful, its place is not in an encyclopaedia, such as Wikipedia. What Wikipedia is not clearly states that Wikipedia is not an instrucion manual:


 * while Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice ( legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes.  Wikibooks is a Wikipedia sister-project which is better suited for such things.

You could try putting the advice on Wikibooks instead. - ulayiti (talk)  08:47, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

RE: external link
Hi - Wikipedia is beginning to have a real problem with external links. I removed the link you mention because it was added by a contributer who was going around and adding only links. That type of contributing tends to get reverted fairly quickly, as it can be difficult to determine the motives of the contributer (an important factor to consider when determining the value of a link).

If you as a legitimate editor here feel that the link is valuable, feel free to re-add it. My "task" is complete once I've removed the spam. If future editors later determine the link to be worthwhile, I take no issue with it being re-added. Cheers! --AbsolutDan (talk) 02:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Windows Me
I've replied to your comments. Centrepull 00:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Motto of the day
Hello, I notice you're using one of the motd templates, run by Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hers fold  (t/a/c) 01:43, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Stagecraft Newsletter
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Stagecraft at 13:57, 20 October 2010 (UTC).

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014
Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)


 * This message has been sent by p joe f on behalf of Motto of the Day to all editors of the English Wikipedia who are showing MOTD's templates on their pages, and to all the participants to MOTD: (page, template, and category).