Frank.Feather

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Qichun

Hi Frank, I saw the edits you made to this article. It's great that you've added so much information, but we just need to be careful that the article doesn't infringe copyright (you can't copy and paste things straight into Wikipedia) and that it's presented in an encyclopedic manner. It's not usual for editors to sign their work on the article directly - it comes up in the page's edit history - so I'm going to remove your signature. The article needs a bit of clean-up. It should probably look more like Suzhou, if you want a guide to work from. Check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style (China-related articles), you should find it useful. Cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 22:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Frank. Making subheadings (or sections) is very easy using the wikisyntax. You just put ==Insert Heading Here==. You can do subheadings by putting extra "=" signs, for example under ==Famous people== you might have ===Li Shizhen===. Does it makes sense? You can experiment in the Wikipedia:Sandbox to practice if you like.

the preview button!

Also, I see you're making a lot of individual edits to the article. You might like to use the Preview button - you can see what your changes look like so far, and when you've finished making a bunch, then hit save. It makes it easier for other Wikipedia editors to see what changes you're making (easier to go through 3 than 30!).

Now for pictures - unfortunately you need a separate login for the Commons. If you don't want to get a Commons login, I could upload them for you (if they're online already, you just need to give me the addresses, otherwise you can email me, I'll email you back,then you can send me the images as attachments. To upload images, you need to decide how you will license them. You should understand that you are making your images available for use by anyone for any purpose, including commercial and derivative works. You are still the copyright holder - the recognised author - but for Wikipedia to use them, they need to be available (licensed) under a "suitably free" license.

A good license for photos is Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5. Copyright and licensing can be confusing, so if you want me to explain this more, just ask.

BTW, I'm curious. Do you live in Qichun? When did you have occasion to visit? :)

cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Also... the Li Shizhen information is probably better going in Li Shizhen's article!! :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Frank Feather

I have moved the content of the Frank Feather article to your user space, since it is about you - it was tagged as copyvio but you appear to be the copyright holder. writing about yourself is considered a bad idea on Wikipedia due to the near-impossibility of maintaining a neutral point of view. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 11:15, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Please do not revert other people's edits to articles about you! That is very poor form, especially wehen the revert re-introdues weasel terms. Everythign you contribute to Wikipedia is covered by the GFDL, and you do not own any content at all, whether related to you or not. Please be advised that if you start edit-warring over this article I will block you form editing Wikipedia. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 12:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your expansive original work on areas within Hubei. Soon the Chinese wikipedia will be translating from us ;) pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:45, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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