User talk:Valerie Funderburg

Hello "Valerie Funderburg" and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:


 * Peruse Welcome, newcomers and associated pages, such as
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
 * Manual of Style
 * You can experiment in the Sandbox.
 * Sign talk page entries with ~, which is automatically converted to a name and date.
 * If you have any questions, see Help, or you can a question to the village pump.
 * I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian -- Infrogmation 18:55, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not create articles without content. thank you, Dori | Talk 17:43, Jan 20, 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't mean to be discouraging you from editing again, but I have a couple more notes. Most importantly, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so the dictionary-style definitions should go into its sister project Wiktionary (same style of editing as here, but just for definitions). Another issue is that the title of the article should better match its contents. For example, in the page you created What? when you could have created What is a Board game?.


 * I am copying the contents of the article here so you can move them to Wiktionary if you want. They will be deleted from Wikipedia.

What is a Board game?
""n.""A game of strategy, such as chess or backgammon, played by moving pieces on a board and sometimes involving dice.

regards, Dori | Talk 17:49, Jan 20, 2004 (UTC)


 * Apparently Valerie Funderburg's response is to create nonsense entries such as Who? and What?. Wetman 17:59, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'll say again, without content articles will be deleted. If you want to work on them as you go along, please do so under your userspace pages i.e. User:Valerie Funderburg/temp article. Dori | Talk 04:05, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

Adding content to articles is good. Removing accurate content generally is not. Also, "Who" and "What" are poor choices for titles of articles about topics not related to the general use of those words. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 18:02, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

About Valerie:

I've exchanged e-mail with Valerie. She is a high school student who took an optional assignment that allows her credit for creating a new article. She has apoligized for inappropriate attempts, and for a bad image another student uploaded after she forgot to log out. I deleted the image, she promises to log out. I also asked her to describe the assignment on her user page and gave her a few hints about where or how to write an article. Since she probably won't be back on Wiki until Tuesday's lab period, I wanted to let others know. P.S. Valerie, when you see this welcome back! Lou I 14:20, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)