User talk:Sharper1

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I am starting a new page (titled "Round Rock Public Library"), but I cannot create the article in one session. I got started yesterday, but only had time to add my first reference. (The "Your First Article" article suggested starting out by adding your references.)

The page was marked for speedy deletion and was deleted (you guys ARE fast!). I need to know how to edit a page, save my edits, and be able to create my page over a few days time. The sandbox does not seem to be the place for pages in progress, and I couldn't figure out how to save edits without the page going live. I also thought about writing my page elsewhere (such as in Word), but your markup is so unique I didn't think that would work. Not to mention that Word creates a lot of junk markup coding.

Please advise! thanks


 * Hi. If your article only contained references, it was likely to be deleted because it didn't explain what it was about. ^^ A good start would be an article with one or two paragraph about the library itself (where is it located? when was it founded? which prominent people are associated with it? etc.) and then add your references below. :) This would be a so-called "stub", an article embryo, to put it scientifically, which is able to grow to any height, depending on the effort you invest in it.
 * If you want to test some things before saving your page in the mainspace ("live", as you put it), you can get yourself a personal sandbox. I, for example, have two of them. It's quite simple: you just start a page named User:Sharper1/Sandbox and work on it, as if it was the mainspace article. If you wish, I can monitor it to advice you how to further improve it. When we decide it's good enough to go live, we'll just copy the text over to Round Rock Public Library. :) --Koveras ☭ 16:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi! The inuse or underconstruction templates stop me from tagging for speedy deletion, but I'm not sure it would stop others.  Stwalkerster  [  talk  ]  17:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)