Honda Pilot

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as NASADA) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. --Prewitt81 11:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

NASA edits

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. MidgleyDJ 11:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Removal of speedy deletion tags

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:

1. Place {{hangon}} on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag(s).
2. Make your case on the article's talk page.

Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. MidgleyDJ 11:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC) obviously this guy won't talk to me.

Inappropriate username

According to Wikipedia's username policy, usernames which "match the name or a trademark of a well-known company or groups" are inappropriate. If you go to this page, you can request that your name be changed, but be sure to read the username policy first so that your new name is allowed. TomTheHand 14:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Need help?

It looks like you might be having some trouble. Can I answer any questions about Wikipedia for you? If so, please let me know. I'd like to explain why people reacted the way they did to edits you made. First, in the Power Rangers universe there's a fictional space organization called "NASADA." It's not a typo, so when you changed the Carlos Vallertes article people changed it back. It's also not another name for NASA, and not really anything worthy of an encyclopedia article, so when you created a NASADA article it was deleted almost immediately. The shortcut tag that you added to NASA was also inappropriate; shortcuts that begin with WP: are for pages in the Wikipedia namespace. These are pages about Wikipedia itself. For example, WP:VAND is Wikipedia's policy on vandalism. That tag also doesn't actually create the shortcut. It just puts up a little note saying a shortcut exists, and the shortcut has to be created separately.

Anyway, if you're having trouble getting started here on Wikipedia, and I can help out, please let me know. TomTheHand 15:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

If by "work for Wikipedia", you're asking if I am paid by them, no. We're almost entirely volunteers here. I am an administrator, so I'm able to take care of various jobs that users can't, like deleting pages and blocking vandals. I've been here a few years, so I've got a good handle on what's going on and I can probably answer any questions you have (or direct you to the right place). TomTheHand 15:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Of course, I'm sure that you didn't mean to choose a name that might be a problem. However, the username policy is clear on the point: "Honda Pilot" is a trademark of Honda Motor Company, and so it can't be used as a username. Over at WP:CHU, they'll be happy to change it to something else. If you don't get it changed, you'll eventually get blocked for it, and you'll have to register a new account from scratch. If you know what you'd like to change it to, but you need help, please let me know what name you'd like and I'll put in the request myself. TomTheHand 15:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

No, adding something to it would still leave Honda's trademark in there. It can't refer directly to the "Honda Pilot." Maybe "Pilot fan" or "Pilot driver"? TomTheHand 15:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see what you're saying. I've also looked at the username policy again, and it says "usernames that match the name or a trademark of a well-known company or groups." If you added something, it would no longer match, so maybe it would be alright. Username issues are not something I have a ton of experience with. Let me look into this and get back to you. TomTheHand 15:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Editing experiments

Please note that the page Wikipedia:Sandbox serves as a place for editing experiments; not the page you have created. Regards, Mike Rosoft 15:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Commons images

You can add images on Wikimedia Commons to articles in the same way as images uploaded to Wikipedia. For example, [[Image:Masaryk.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Description]]. (Have a look at Wikipedia:Images for information on how to properly incorporate images in articles.) - Mike Rosoft 15:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. Like this:

Description

- Mike Rosoft 15:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I reverted a couple of your NBA edits

Hey there HP, just a heads up to let you know that I removed a couple of your edits, and to tell you why I did so.

• This edit that you made to 2008 NBA Finals was very speculative. Wikipedia articles must always cite sources, and since almost nothing has been written in other reliable sources yet about the 2008 Finals, there's really nothing we can put in the article. Your addition highlights one of the problems with this kind of crystal ball speculation. You added details about the Finals being a best-of-seven series; although it is unlikely, what if the NBA changes its playoff format between now and then? What if a players' strike or owners' lockout cancels the season? We don't speculate in articles here, for that very reason.
• I also removed this edit, which highlights the same speculation principle I talked about above and also brings us to another crucial Wikipedia policy: neutral point-of-view. Every article must adhere to a neutral viewpoint. In your edit, you offered the "top picks" to make the Finals this year. That's your opinion; I might have a totally different opinion about who might make it to the Finals, and I do :). If we allowed everybody to add their two bits into articles with their subjective, qualitative opinions about who's better or worse, the encyclopedia would be unmaintainable.

I hope that I've done a good job of showing you why I reverted your edits; most of the time I wouldn't write a big essay for a simple revert, but you're new and I wanted to make sure you get a good feel for the ropes around here. Feel free to reply right here on your talk page if you wish, I'll be watching it. Cheers, A Train^talk 18:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Problematic edits

Hi, HP. Checking in with you again. I've got some questions about some of your edits.

• Do you have a source for this claim?

• What exactly does this mean?

• Do you have a source for this? How does this edit improve the article"

Along the same lines as the previous edit:

• [1]

• [2]

Did you read WP:ATT, which I linked to in my previous post? A Train^talk 19:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

They have the same name.

Their is a link to that, should i take out the link?

Sky is for skyler, c'mon. That had to be spelled right.

Sing: See that guy watch him sing, bring in the dancing king... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Honda Pilot (talk • contribs) -- HP's reply moved by me for clarity's sake A Train^talk 19:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

If you don't like the edits, feel free to revert them. Now I'll read WP:ATT, maybe to have a good attitide, er. good source. But how do you dispute the validity of something alreayd their, as in skyler. HP 19:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC) copied from A Train's talk page

I think I'm going to revert all of them. I've never seen the Power Rangers, but you changed the way a character's name was spelled. I don't need to go into the fact that there's many different ways to spell names, do I? I don't think that very many of your edits up until this point have been useful, and I'm trying to decide what the next step should be. A Train^talk 20:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Please sign with four tildes

Hi, could you please sign your posts with four tildes, so that there will be a link to your user page as well as the date. You seem to be typing "HP" manually, and then typing 5 tildes for the date. If you want your signature to say HP instead of Honda Pilot, you can change it in "my preferences" at the top of any page, but it should still be linked to your user page (or your talk page). Thanks. ElinorD (talk) 20:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)