User talk:Vmcorbett46

March 2018
I find it difficult to believe that you thought that it would be suitable for Wikipedia to publish an article with no content other than an email contact for an unspecified purpose. If you really did think that, then I suggest that you spend some time reading Wikipedia to see what kind of thing we have before submitting any more articles for creation. Your user page, on the other hand, may have been created in good faith to show your interests, but it appeared to be a collection of links for personal use, unrelated to the encyclopaedia Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:57, 23 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I too find it difficult to understand why there is "NOT" even so much as a link to what a user page is, does, or can do but it gives links to what you "CAN'T" do which is close to everything. Additionally there are no links, information, examples or templates of how to or what can be on a user page. I'm not even sure if this is reaching the person that for the most part chewed me out for creating a user page that had links to sources that I was using in my research of satellite image enhancements. How do I contact the person that left the uncalled for berating message to let them know that Wikipedia uses slightly different terminology then the run of the mill website and is not necessarily a "user friendly" website. Because I would like some direction on how to create an appropriate user page that can benefit all those interested. Finally what is a "talk" page is this the way to reach someone, is it private or public.


 * ThankYou,
 * Guidance would be greatly useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmcorbett46 (talk • contribs) 02:10, 27 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I have read your message, and re-read what I wrote above. I apologise for the fact that I expressed my self in more negative terms than I might have done, and here is what I hope is a more helpful message to introduce you to a few features of editing Wikipedia.
 * You submitted an "articles for creation" submission which consisted of just an email address. Unfortunately you appear to have misunderstood the purpose of "articles for creation". An "article" in Wikipedia terms means one of the encyclopaedia pages which are the public face of Wikipedia, i.e. the pages for the public to read, not a page with information about a Wikipedia editor, such as contact details. The "articles for creation" system is intended to help new editors with little or no experience of editing Wikipedia to write new articles. The idea is that you write what you hope will be acceptable as an article, and a more experienced editor then assesses it and either decides that it is suitable, or else gives you advice on why it isn't suitable, and what may be done to improve it. Obviously new editors without experience are bound to sometimes write articles which are not very suitable, and the idea is that this way they are given a chance to improve them, rather than just see them deleted almost immediately.
 * It is not a good idea to post your email address on a publicly visible web site such as Wikipedia. If you wish to make it possible for other editors to contact you by email, click on the "preferences" link at the top of this page (assuming you are logged into your account) and you will find numerous options, including an option to add an email address. Then anyone else who also has Wikipedia email enabled can email you, but your email address is not publicly visible.
 * I agree that Wikipedia is not as user friendly as it might be, and I remember that when I first started editing I found it very frustrating trying how to find things I need to know. Below, I am posting a notice which provides links to various information pages, guidelines, policies, etc, some of which you may find helpful. There's rather a lot there, so don't try to read all of it, but have a look and see if any of the pages have information which is helpful to you, and of course you can always come back to it and look at other things if they become relevant to you in the future.
 * Luckily I came back here to see whether you had made any response to my message above, but if I hadn't done it is entirely possible that nobody would ever have seen your message. Here are a few points about how to communicate with other editors.
 * Whenever you post a message to a talk page or any other discussion page, finish your message with four tildes, i.e. ~. That will be automatically converted to a signature which will show who posted the message, and will also includes a link to your talk page (here) which makes it easy for another editor to find your talk page if he or she wishes to. Normally that talk page link is a blue link that says (talk), but a few editors change their signatures so that the link says something completely different, which I find totally unhelpful, so I don't recommend it.
 * One way to get a message to another editor is to post to his or her talk page. If your message is something totally new that is usually the best way to do it, but if it related to something either that editor or anyone else has said it is usually better to post your message on the same page as where the thing you are responding to has been posted, as otherwise it can develop into a fragmented conversation that jumps about from page to page, making it very difficult to follow. There are various ways of making sure that another editor sees your message if it isn't on their talk page, but here is one of them. In your message (usually at the beginning of it) put a "ping" template with the name of the editor you want to contact. If you want to contact me, for example, that means you write, and also make sure you remember to finish your message with ~. The "ping" will come out looking like this: and more importantly I will get a notification of the ping. Important: This works only if in the same post you use both "ping" and "~". It will not work if, for example, you post the "ping" but forget to sign with four tildes, and then go back and add a signature in a separate edit.
 * You say that your user page contained links that you were using in your "research". Does that mean that you were using the page as a convenient place to store information for you own use, unrelated to the encyclopaedia, or that you were using it in preparation for using in editing Wikipedia's encyclopaedia articles?
 * Finally, here are is the notice with links to various possibly useful pages that I said I would provide. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:09, 28 March 2018 (UTC)