User talk:Vernon rosario

Welcome!

Hello, Vernon rosario, 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 messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jokestress (talk) 04:48, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding information about yourself

Thanks for updating the entry on yourself. In the future, I recommend doing what you are doing with GAP: propose content changes on the article's talk page (Talk:Vernon Rosario) or on a sandbox page, and then let uninvolved editors inspect them and add them to the article if warranted. Wikipedia has guidelines at Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest that explain more about the best ways to proceed.

If you would like some help making the GAP article more encyclopedic, please let me know by replying at User talk:Jokestress or by clicking E-mail this user in the left column. The most important way to keep it from being listed for deletion is to assert the organization's notability by including reliable, third-party, published sources. Again, welcome! Jokestress (talk) 16:03, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GAP article

I'm glad you are finding Wikipedia's markup language fairly intuitive. If you would like me to assist with adding references to your GAP article, I can show you examples of what will keep it from being deleted. In a nutshell, you want to include references (books and articles) about GAP, rather than by GAP. That will satisfy the notability requirement and keep it from being deleted. I took the liberty of adding one such example to your draft. If you have a half dozen good third-party sources like that, it will not be challenged. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, any time you post a comment on a Talk page, you can type four tildes like this: ~~~~, and it will sign and date your comment automatically, like this: Jokestress (talk) 06:51, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear you are having problems, and I am especially sorry if I messed up your editing yesterday! The articles you have created are not part of the official Wikipedia yet. They are currently in your user space. They will be where these red links are once we have them ready to go:

Don't put them there yet, though. They will probably be deleted right now as they stand. Wikipedia has a group of people who watch every newly-created article and delete on sight any articles that are not properly sourced. The Hilly Hicks Jr. one is pretty close to finished. The introduction should explain why he is notable, though.

Wikipedia is a little byzantine at times. One way I got up to speed was to read a random article and correct any errors. Then I got to see what the code did, and soon I was pretty good at it. Wikipedia makes an extra effort to welcome experts like you who can use their expertise to improve articles. Some people find it frustrating, but I feel it's pretty amazing to see a really good article develop with input from every viewpoint. Jokestress (talk) 08:09, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]