User talk:Pharmer4

Welcome!

Hello, Pharmer4, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! -- Longhair\^talk 09:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deniliquin

Welcome from me also. It's good to see you adding things on the Deniliquin page but please have a look through the links that Longhair provides above. I have had to adjust some of the material you have put up because it does not meet wiki's requirements. Please keep editing but please understand that what you put up must be encyclopedic.--VS ^talk 09:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC) PS It is probably more important for you to watch wiki's rules on the Deni page because you have a clear bias to the music websites you are attempting to promote.--VS ^talk 10:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your question. Having a link to the facts of a band is fine but where the page is simply a self-promoting page then that is not a way of establishing notability. For example for Adrian Ross where the only thing telling us Adrian Ross is a great musician is Adrian Ross' Management site then editors will remove those links.

Also where the link is in the body of the page so that clicking on it leads you to an off-wiki page is a no-no. For example the way that the article linked to the Heavy Metal Nation page. So to compromise - yes clearly you can tell us about bands but you may face many questions about why this or that band is on a encyclopedia page about a town. Let me put it this way - imagine if the people interested in Melbourne or Sydney decided that it was a good idea to put every band in the city on the wiki page - absolute chaos right?

So if you are interested in promoting the bands (and they are notable) then they may deserve their own page - although there are very strict rules about band notability - see WP:Band.

In terms of the fact of the band, or the facts about any other part of Deni, then there is a way of referencing fact which you can find on any featured article (just look at the edit page for all the coding or ask me more questions) but to reiterate I would not think that putting up each bands name is a particularly good way of writing about Deniliquin.--VS ^talk 10:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS Can I ask you to put four tilds like this after every message as that automatically signs your user name off on the page ~~~~ --VS ^talk 10:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good return - you appear to be picking up the intention of my comments - that is not to police you directly but to point you in the another direction and to offer support. There is room for most what you suggest but how you do it will decide whether other editors remove, revert or adjust. Importantly whilst you live in Deniliquin and are close to the article - no-one owns anything that is written. So because Wiki is such a dynamic place you have to be prepared for other editors to adjust, change and disagree. Oh I should say there are strict guidelines about notability at WP:N and verifiabilty at WP:V for you to work out Adrian Ross' place - framed over many years of Wiki and by thousands of editors. My final suggestion is actually that you do take the time to read all of the links that user:Longhair provided - if he hadn't of provided them, I or another editor would have. When you do you will see that the adjustments made by me, and others such as user:Mattinbgn (see his comments above on my talk page) etc are all well meaning and just our attempt at helping Deniliquin get to the stage of being a good encyclopedic article. Keep editing! --VS ^talk 11:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Great leap forward

I hope you don't mind me saying that your latest adjustment to Music at Deniliquin are a great leap forward, they read well and the referencing is almost perfect - (if you want to improve this a little more have a look at reference number 2 (the first one in the history section) for the formating that shows a date of access etc). You look like you are enjoying this editing - keep it up!--VS ^talk 11:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Australia

Hi there Pharmer4 - I noticed you joined up at Wikipedia:Australia recently and thought I would invite you to join up in the slightly more focused group (given your Deniliquin location) of Wikipedia:WikiProject Riverina. There are only a few of us but we are very dedicated and we have managed to catalogue almost every city/town/location at Template:Riverina. Anyway we'd be very pleased to have you come on board and help - even if only with a few of the towns around Deni>>>--VS ^talk 12:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent - welcome aboard.--VS ^talk 22:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- A welcome from me as well. --Mattinbgn/^talk 22:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]