NorthernFactoid

Welcome!

Hello, NorthernFactoid, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction and Getting started
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 click here to ask for help here on your talk page and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Nick-D (talk) 06:36, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Re:Your tagging of French language

Please see this list, specifically New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna (French dependencies, but in Oceania), and the independent state of Vanuatu. All are considered part of Oceania Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 4 Adar 5775 19:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. Unfortunately, Oceania is not a continent: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/geography-faqs/ NorthernFactoid (talk) 03:22, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi NorthernFactoid, having just read the Pre-eminent? discussion on Talk:London i would like to thank you (and the other wikieditors involved:) in showing how WP:consensus works:) Coolabahapple (talk) 04:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

As an add-on to the above Wikilove message:

Indeed, successfully compromising takes a lot of character (that is sadly often lacking on Wikipedia, and so my respect to you (for what it's worth). Apologise for times when I may have been/was rude to you and failed to assume good faith.

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 9 Adar 5775 04:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!