User talk:Alangammon

Alan Gammon

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Alangammon, good luck, and have fun. --Cloveapple (talk) 08:53, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Two guidelines it might be helpful to read

If you stop by the article you were working on you'll see that there are some formal looking notices on it. That just means that a couple editors have noticed some things that need fixing. Once they get fixed the banners can come down. Articles in progress are often marked up that way.

The most important banner right now is the one talking about "notability." "Notable" is just Wikipedia's word for an article subject that has independent coverage from multiple reliable sources (for example newspaper coverage). Notability is the main necessity for keeping an article in Wikipedia. The policy on how to tell if a politician meets Wikipedia's notability requirements is at: WP:POLITICIAN. Things like personal blogs don't count as reliable sources and neither do message boards, twitter, or facebook. If you know of any news coverage that supports any of the article's facts add it as best you can and don't worry about the exact formatting. Getting it up there is more important and it can get smoothed out later.

I'd also reccomend taking a look at WP:COI and being familiar with that policy so you can decide if it applies. Anybody who is very close to the subject of an article (a relative, an employee, a friend, the subject themself) is "strongly encouraged" to declare their interest on their user page & any relevant article talk pages.

Hope that helps. Cloveapple (talk) 09:34, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Alan Gammon. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Cind.amuse 14:15, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add sources as embedded links. Adding links in this manner, as you have done to the Alan Gammon article causes more work for other editors to cleanup. See WP:CITE for more information on appropriate citation of sources. Thank you. Cind.amuse 08:37, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries and "watch" feature

I think you might be missing part of the conversation about the Alan Gammon article. (This place takes a while to figure out and I'm still working on it myself.) When people edit the article they also leave a little message to other editors called an "edit summary." The summary might say what they changed or why, or might be some other related comment. There are two ways you can see all these comments.

You can go to the article and click on the "history" tab up at the very top of the article. That shows you all the edits, who made them, and their edit summary comments.
You can click the "watch" tab up at the very top of the article (or at the top of any page). This will generate your own personal watchlist of all the edits and edit summary comments people have made on pages you are watching. Once you are watching articles you can reach the watchlist through the "watchlist" link on the top right of every page.

It's also polite to leave your own edit summaries. Or if what you have to say is longer, you can just say "see the talk page" and post a note there. That way everyone who works on the article is kept in the loop. And if you see a note that puzzles you, you can always ask the person on their talk page or on the article's talk page. Cloveapple (talk) 09:34, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ミラ P 03:57, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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