User talk:Taddletheteddy

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Welcome!

Hello, Taddletheteddy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Childnet, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Erpert (let's talk about it) 18:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
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Congratulations on your first article!
Hi, Taddle! Congratulations on creating the Childnet article on Wikipedia. I'm sorry if might have seemed like people here were being mean by trying to have it deleted. No one was trying to be mean, though, they were just trying to follow Wikipedia's policies, especially the policy about what we call "notability" for organizations. Basically this policy says that an organization can only have an article on Wikipedia if enough independent news organizations ( like newspapers and magazines ) have written stories about it. Since the article didn't include references to any news stories, people thought Childnet wasn't "notable". But it turns out that a lot of news organizations have written about Childnet, and since some of those stories have now been pointed out at the deletion discussion, it's almost certain that your article will be kept. :-) It will need to have references added, though, and I agree with other people who said so at the deletion discussion that the title of the article should probably be changed to "Childnet International"; we'll help you do that sometime soon. But you made a great start, and you should be really proud of that. I'm very busy myself right now, but I'll try to check in on the article from time to time, and will try to help you improve it when I can, too. As you probably know, further discussion about the article can be found at its talk/discussion page, where you're welcome to participate too, of course. Also, if you want to reply to this message you can do so right here. Just write your message below and I'll be sure to see it, since I've added this page to my "watchlist" to make sure I do. Best regards,  –  OhioStandard  (talk) 10:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Since the outcome of the "Article for Deletion" review that took place recently was a decision that this article should be kept on Wikipedia, I removed the notice about that deletion discussion from your talk page, just a a courtesy. Since it's your talk page, you could have done that yourself - your allowed to remove anything you like from your talk page, whenever you want to - but I thought it'd be nice if someone did that for you. I'll try to look at the article and help improve it myself a little today. Best regards, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 15:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Reverted me?
You reverted me here because? Flyer22 (talk) 16:10, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm so sorry, I accidentally made a mistake click on lupin's tool. Taddletheteddy (talk) 16:15, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It's okay. I shouldn't have even brought it up. I knew it was a mistake. Flyer22 (talk) 21:08, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Your talk page
Hi Taddle. In case you didn't know already, I just wanted to tell you that it's up to you what you have on your talk page. You can remove anything you want to, including that orange banner I put up at the top awhile ago. I only put that there because I saw some people were being rude to you when the Childnet article was proposed for deletion. I think it's a good idea to have that there, myself, but it's up to you. My thought was that any user who wanted to could contact me via my talk page to ask why I put that there, but it's up to you whether you keep it. The same thing applies to this message and to any other messages on your talk page. You can delete them anytime you want to. Have fun editing, and thank you for your contributions. – OhioStandard  (talk) 20:47, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey dude!

Thanks, what about my user page, can you go through the guidlines for that please? Taddletheteddy (talk) 16:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, you're welcome. You're probably asking about what you can put on User:Taddletheteddy, your main user page, right? The main guideline for "user space" pages is here. Even if you don't read that whole guideline page you should probably at least look at the table of contents. That will give you a pretty good idea about what's allowed and what isn't. ( You'll have to scroll down on the page to see the table of contents because the lead section is long. ) Further on in this message I've included some links where you can find examples: People put all kinds of things on their user pages, pictures of flowers or rocks or bowls of soup (yes, really!), a list of subjects they're interested in,  userboxes are very popular, quotations from famous people, there's just a huge number of possibilities. The idea is that whatever you put there is supposed to help the encyclopedia, at least in some very small way, but people get a whole lot of freedom about that. Read the guideline page if you want to be sure, but there's just a very wide choice as to the kinds of things you can put on your main user page.


 * ( Also, I know it'll sound really dumb for me to remind you of this, but of course you shouldn't put anything private on your user page that might let people figure out who you are in real life. You wouldn't want to put a picture of yourself, or a friend, or even your dog or cat there, for example, or an e-mail address, or your real name, or anything like that. That's what this part of the guidelines page is about. And you probably also know this too, but everything you ever write anywhere on Wikipedia gets saved forever once you click the "save page" button. This is true for every page on Wikipedia, including this talk page, not just for article ("mainspace") pages. Even if you change the page or remove the information later, whatever you wrote before will be saved in "page history" and anyone who wants to look can see it. If you do make a mistake and write any personal information you can and should ask for it to be removed even from "page history", but it's better just to keep your personal information to yourself in the first place. Like I said, though, I know it must sound really dumb to remind you of things like this, since you could probably teach a class about online privacy yourself! )


 * A lot of people make their main user page look very fancy. Mine's pretty dull, but I suppose that could be a fun way to express your artistic side and learn more about how to edit, too. This user-page design center looks like it could be useful if you want to try that. There's a "user page hall of fame" link from that page that has lots of good examples of user pages. It also includes some examples of users who have put private, personally-identifying information on their user page, which I think is a really bad idea, as I hope I've made clear.


 * One thing that's both fun and useful is to create a "user sandbox page" for yourself where you can try things out and see how they look without having to worry about it at all if you make mistakes. You can do that by clicking this link: User:Taddletheteddy/Sandbox. It will be red when you first see it. The red color means that the page doesn't exist yet. When you click it, you'll go to an "editing window". Just type whatever you want and click "Save page". That will create the page, and the next time you see the link for the page the link will have turned blue. The blue color for a link means that the page does exist. You can always get back to it again by clicking that same link, although it will have turned blue by then if you do create the page. You'll learn other ways to get to it too, as you go along.


 * If you want to you can use that personal sandbox page to try out things you might like to add to your own user page. If you see something you like on another page, just hit "edit this page", copy the wikicode for it, and then instead of clicking the "Save page" button, find the "Cancel" button near it and hit that instead. Then "paste" the "wikicode" to your sandbox page, and hit "Preview" to see how it looks. If you like the way it looks you can save it, or you can change it around first. I used my own sandbox page ( User:Ohiostandard/Sandbox ) that way when I was starting out, and I still use it a lot when I want to try something that I'm not completely sure will work right.


 * Don't forget the help desk if you get stuck or have a question. You can ask anything at all about how to edit or use Wikipedia there, no one will criticize you for asking anything, and the people who volunteer there are almost all very friendly and usually very experienced. ( Most of them are much more experienced than I am. ) It depends on what time of day you ask a question, but you should usually get an answer there within ten to thirty minutes. Anyway, I know this is a long answer to a short question, so delete it if you get tired of seeing it. You can always find it again in your talk page "history", if you want to, even after you delete it. Or you could "collapse" it, instead, by following  the example in my own sandbox. You'll have to click on the word "edit" (at the right side of that linked page) to see the wikicode that makes that work, of course, but you can "collapse" this long reply right here on your own talk page in just the same way. Or try it out on in your new Sandbox page, if you decide to go ahead and create that page.


 * Oh, can I say one last thing? Like every other place on the web where strangers can contribute, we do have some very annoying people here: users who are rude, mean, dishonest, hard to work with, or whatever. We don't have very many of them, and those people usually get kicked out sooner or later, but if you stick around you're sure to run into some of them eventually. If that happens, the best plan is usually to ignore them, to just not answer. ( You've heard the expression, "Don't feed the trolls", right? It means to just ignore people who are being rude to try to get attention for themselves. ) Or if something bothers you, and you're not sure what to do, the help desk would be a really good place to ask. It would even be perfectly fine to try that out before you need it, if you want to, just so you know how to use the help desk. Just post any question about editing or using Wikipedia that you'd like to know about, like maybe "How do I underline one of the words I write on a talk page?" or "Do you know if there's a userbox to tell people I'm interested in gardens?"


 * Have fun learning and contributing! –  OhioStandard  (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

This might interest you or your friends
I thought this news article might be of interest to you or perhaps to some of your friends. Best, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 08:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)