User talk:Whoswhoaustralia

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I tagged an article you started, Picken family, as needing information about the subject's importance. Obviously Wikipedia can't have articles on every single family, so make sure to explain what's notable about this one.

Again, welcome! NickelShoe (Talk) 17:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Past versions of articles
Hi, thankyou for the welcome! we're trying our hand at contributing to a few business bio's for people we're working on at university.. I'm new to this, and instead of creating the bio first in sandbox i just kept saving small changes on the article - is there any way of deleting the previous posts to start from now? - as we have about 15 which are all small and within 30mins of each other - specifically this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Picken which we're still working on... any way of deleting those previous posts? ie. from creation through till now.

noted your comment on this entrepreneurs family, and inserted additional information found in another article.

whoswhoaustraliaWhoswhoaustralia 18:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope, Wikipedia keeps past versions of every article. It would be technically possible, if for instance an old version had something illegal in it, but not worth the trouble otherwise.  It's okay to create the article first as a real page as long as the first save gives an indication that the article is worth keeping (even if it needs work).  Have you checked out the criteria for speedy deletion?  Wouldn't want to save an article that could be immediately deleted.  NickelShoe (Talk) 20:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Harvie Picken
Hi, I looked at this article and you have a good start there. You have managed to put in a realistic number of relevant external links, which a lot of editors blow right out of the water, and provided what looks like a great source for the article. Your section headings though are in "Title Case", which isn't in line with the style manual provided at WP:MOS and WP:MSH (the second deals directly with headings). If you could put them in "First word only in title case" that would be better.

Thanks for your contribution on a person who seems to be a very important Australian business identity, Garrie 01:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Blanking to James Picken
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from. Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Pedro | Chat  09:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

James Picken
No probs - obviously I saw the thing being blanked with no edit suammry so it looked like an inadvertent cut and paste that had gone wrong. I would advise proding it to get rid of it, as a straight blanking will not get rid of it and could be reverted again! Cheers. Pedro | Chat  09:47, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Looking at the history no-one else has substantially added to the article so you can get it speedy deleted using the tag at the top of the article. Pedro |  Chat  09:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I see you've added the tag - that should be sufficent now to get it speedy deleted. Any queries please feel free to ask. Pedro | Chat  09:53, 17 August 2007 (UTC)