User talk:Street.alex

Welcome!
Hello, Street.alex, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Carroll College. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Montanabw (talk) 00:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Underway!
I see your students are underway. Good luck! Feel free to let me know if any of them are running into trouble with the wiki community in one way or the other, here or via email. The two main places I see students run into trouble are 1) Editing well-established featured articles in a manner that is not suitable for these long-term stable articles and 2) Poor sourcing with improper formatting (tell them to use the citation templates, don't just insert refs manually like in a term paper). Also, be aware that Articles for creation is a backlogged pit where drafts go to die, better to work up a new article in a sandbox and then move it directly when the time comes that it's ready (I can help with that). Basically, if you need a "how NOT to edit" example, try this one: (gotta watch out for those mean badgers in Anaconda!) ;-)  Montanabw (talk)  23:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tips and your willingness to help. I plan to have them improving the Carroll College page (which was sparse and out of date), some academic topics that are currently poorly covered, and providing some extra information about elections in various parts of the world.  We'll work on the citations.  I'll let you know if I have questions. Street.alex (talk) 05:56, 24 March 2016 (UTC)


 * It DOES need improvement, but the detail on every campus dorm, no (I tossed it) ... it's not the "Campus Life" home page! LOL!  Also, be sure they footnote everything and are careful not to do a word-for-word copypaste (or even a too-close paraphrase); that's the stuff that usually trips up newbies.   Montanabw (talk)  23:20, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. New articles generally need at least two (but preferably more) references from reliable sources that are independent of the subject that discuss the subject with significant coverage (trivial mentions do not contribute to notability).(See Rule 42) Information that can't be referenced to reliable sources should be removed from the draft because verifiability is necessary for information added to Wikipedia. I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of  before the article title) where you can work on the article with minimal disruption from other users while you improve it. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready to be published, you can move it back to the article space yourself. However, I recommend that instead of moving it yourself that you follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template that I have added to the page. This submits the article to be reviewed by experienced editors that specialize in helping new editors write their first articles. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  04:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

== Your submission at Articles for creation: Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (April 15) ==  Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MatthewVanitas was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

== Your submission at Articles for creation: Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (May 6) ==  Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Shadowowl was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "db-self" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Against_The_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Shadowowl&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Against_The_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States reviewer's talk page].
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&raquo; Shadowowl  &#124;  talk  13:40, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States has been accepted
 Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Legacypac (talk) 16:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
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