MissWikiGirl
Thank you for experimenting with the page Mermaid on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Quendus 16:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- You asked me in an email to clarify why I removed that link. It's because Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files [1].
- While the site did contain good drawings, it didn't hold any actual information. It would have been more appropriate to upload the best ones and place them in the article, though that particular article already has quite a lot of images and might not need any more. I see that you've done artwork on multiple topics, so I'm sure there are pages that could benefit from your work.
Also:
Hello, MissWikiGirl, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
- Also feel free to make test edits in my sandbox.
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, please leave me a message.. Quendus 17:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. - Mike Rosoft 17:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- I am going to assume good faith and unblock you (per request on my talk page). I am sorry; I was under an impression that this account was only created for spamming (due to your only contributions being addition of links to your website to random articles). Regards, Mike Rosoft 06:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- You are welcome; as you were advised, you are welcome to upload images to Wikipedia (if they are to be used in articles), or to the Commons - as long as you have made them yourself or the author allows them to be used under a free license. See Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for details. (And, by the way: to add a signature, use the ~~~~ string.) Regards, Mike Rosoft 13:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
September 2017
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Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Port Chicago disaster. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. MOS:LQ is seems clear, that we are to put punctuation outside of quotes in almost every situation. It's not how I learned it in school, but it's how things are done here on Wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 07:05, 26 September 2017 (UTC)