User talk:Stephen Hayes

Captions
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please don't remove captions from infobox images. You may not like them, but they're helpful to a lot of our readers. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 10:38, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Struway2 (talk) 10:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Captions (again)
Hello. Just to let you know I've asked at the football Wikiproject for comment on the caption thing at Talk:Jack Wilshere. Hopefully I've phrased the request in a sufficiently neutral manner. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 14:00, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring over captions
This is the only warning you're going to get. If you disagree with the general principle of putting captions on images in infobox templates then you're more than welcome to start a discussion on removing them all - what you are not welcome to do is to repeatedly edit war over a whole bunch of articles to keep them out when you're evidently the only person who disagrees with them. Do it again and you will be prevented from editing entirely. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:55, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

captions
Please stop. You've been given plenty of warnings and I will proceed to revert. Thanks for understanding.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 09:49, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * As it has been pointed out on the talk page of Radoslav Kováč, a caption can remain in the infobox without there having to be a thumb image. I can see no reason why it is not perfectly valid to have captions in infobox images. If you have a reason, I would be happy to hear your thoughts on the matter. Kind regards, SGGH ping! 11:24, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Stephen Hayes! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 10:05, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello. Just to explain the difference between external links and references, according to the Manual of Style at WP:MOS, WP:External links. References are (obviously) links to the sources which verify the facts in the article. External links are for links to pages which add information but which haven't necessarily been used as sources. If an article hasn't got any inline references or any general references in a references section, then it is unreferenced and should be tagged accordingly; and even if the tag is removed, it'll go back on automatically next time the bot runs if the article still has only external links. The tag gets the article into the category:Unreferenced BLPs, where they can be easily found by editors who like that sort of work. There are plenty of football-related ones that need working on, if it's the sort of thing you'd enjoy. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Consider your tone
For an eidtor who has been registered fpor less than a week, you are apopting a tone that can be interpreted as extraordinarily arrogant in some of your edit notes and discussion contributions. Please assume goodwill, amd be civil. You have already been told several times that captions should not be removed, so that should not be a temptation. Please note that captions are not necessarily written with formal sentence structure. Leaving aside those editnotes that are rather tactless, you do not leave any note on a very large proportion of your edits: that is considered poor editing. There is no reason to assume that the previous caption to the photo on Antonio Valencia's article suggested that it was a publicity shot: be careful about isogetic reading. Kevin McE (talk) 17:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Re
Not sure sorry, haven't been following.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 10:08, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!