Mammalian

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Mammalian, 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:

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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}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  --Teratornis 14:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Your question on the Help desk

You asked a question on the Help desk:

• WP:HD#"talk pages" - current link - will break in a few days when the question goes into the archive
• Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 May 20#"talk pages" - archive link, after the question goes into the archive
• Permanent link

I'm leaving this message on your user talk page to show you how user talk pages work. --Teratornis 14:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The Help:Watch thing is mostly what I was wondering about. Mammalian 18:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Your CSD question

See WP:CSD for the reasons an article can be tagged for speedy deletion (CSD stands for Criteria for Speed Deleetion). Requesting speedy deletion is accomplished by adding the appropriate template to the top of the page, such as {{db-nonsense}}, {{db-bio}}, {{db-corp}}, etc.... The meaning of these templates are all described at WP:CSD (see the list in the sidebar on the right).

I saw you left a message on the original author's talk page. Leaving a message on their talk page is a good idea, but it's generally best (and more convenient) to use a pre-defined template message if one applies. See the list at Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace. So in this case, you could have added the template {{subst:uw-create1|Computer safety}} - ~~~~ to the author's talk page, and that would give a message like:

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. An article you recently created, Computer safety, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new articles, so it will shortly be removed (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do and please read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. - Aagtbdfoua 15:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

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The benefits of using the predefined templates are (1) some admins like to see that an editor was appropriately warned before blocking them, and these warnings are generally deemed "appropriate"; (2) the templates are designed to be civil to new authors, and they encourage them to become constructive contributors rather than driving them away completely.

Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have more questions. - Aagtbdfoua 15:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

This looks complicated, but thank you. Mammalian 18:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Your speedy tag on Matt Snider

I removed your db-bio tag on Matt Snider (as I'm not the author). He played in a fully professional team of American Football, which would tend to make him qualify under Wikipedia:Notability (people). - Fordan (talk) 19:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay I'll read that page then. Mammalian 19:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)