User talk:McDonaldfan

Welcome and introduction

Hi, McDonaldfan. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! My76Strat (talk) 17:55, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:McDonaldfan/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

--My76Strat (talk) 17:55, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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re File:Free-Use-Awards-Oli Thordarson and Kevin McDonald 2101 MHOF Awards.jpg

Hi McDonaldfan. Thank you for contributing this image. Unfortanately, we can't use it, as our rules for what images we can use are quite strict: they need to be public domain, or licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or a similar license. The rights to the image must be released for all purposes, not just non-profit or public information purposes. Generally speaking, its usually best if you only upload images you made yourself (and are willing to release into the wild). Therefore I must delete this image, but thank you for contributing. Herostratus (talk) 18:58, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your article submission has been declined, and Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kevin B. McDonald Inducted into Martial Arts Masters' Hall of Fame was not created. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer, and please feel free to resubmit once the issues have been addressed. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! AJ Cham 23:04, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]