Patrice58

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Hello, Patrice58, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, feel free to leave me a message on my talk/chat page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages to help you. The left column contains tutorials and introductory pages while the right shows ways to help out Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome! :) --Hdt83 ^Chat 06:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I would be willing to adopt you, just leave a message. --Hdt83 ^Chat 06:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

TO hide your IP address from showing up, simply log on and edit under your log-in. Now instead of your IP address showing up as the person who made the edits, your account name will be used instead. --Hdt83 ^Chat 22:09, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Adoption

Yes, I would be willing to adopt you. Note that I don't really have any sort of "lesson plan" or any other kind of plan for that matter. Basically, if you have any questions about editing or Wikipedia, I have experience in just about everything. If I don't know the answer, I will know somewhere that I can direct you to find people that do have the answer. I am also an administrator so I can answer any questions about that as well. Mr.Z-man 02:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Creating a page

Sure, I can help you create a new article. You may want to see this page for a quick overview. Mr.Z-man 14:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Smile bank

If it meets the notability guideline for companies, an article might be appropriate. You might want to try using the article wizard, still under development, but it should help you with writing an article about a company. I designed much of it, so if you have any questions, just ask me. Mr.Z-man 05:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

HI

I have to say, having an account automatically hides your IP address from everyone except the people called checkuser-privileged people. Oh, and one more thing: welcome to Wikipedia! ~user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 03:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Name

If her name is Kéllé Bryan, that should be the title. If it is Bryan Kéllé, that should be the title. Mr.Z-man 23:45, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please clarify? And you can respond here, I am watching this page. Mr.Z-man 00:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:name

Her name is Kelle Bryan but I wanted to know apart from the heading ie the artice should she be called Bryan Kelle (as it is now or Kelle Bryan?).

Hey!

Happy new years to you too. To answer your question, when you "watch" a page, it will show up on your watchlist. The most recent changes will be at the top. On the watchlist there are several links (from left to right: diff, hist, title of page, +/- number of words, most recent person who changed the page). The diff link shows you what the person changed and the difference from the previous version. The hist link shows the complete page history of everyone who edited the page. The plus / minus shows the number of words added or removed followed by the person who changed the page. If you need more info on the watchlist, see Help:Watching_pages, Help:Diff, and Help:Page_history. If you still have questions don't hesitate to ask :) --Hdt83 ^Chat 02:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Question 2

To link to a section under the main article, type [[Ps3#Software|PS3 software section]] which will gove you this PS3 software section. As for the date, the date is linked so that it goes to the December 17 page but you can easily change it. Ive already edited it for you. Hope that helps. --Hdt83 ^Chat 05:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

First off, sorry if my editing the page seemed like it was taking credit, I was simply trying to help. Now I hope I don't misinterpret your questions but I'm assuming you mean how to change the dates on the link December 17, 2007? If you're talking about the date, click the edit button to go to edit mode, you will see the double box brackets around the date. The double box brackets denote that the text within them is linked to the corresponding page on Wikipedia. Changing the date is a simple matter of switching out the 7 for an 8 so the page now reads December 18, 2007. If you still need help then leave a message. :) --Hdt83 ^Chat 04:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Also, if I'm not on and you need answers right away you can also ask your question at the help desk. --Hdt83 ^Chat 05:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Adoption

I'd be happy to adopt you. Are there any areas of Wikipedia you are specifically interested in getting help with? Shell ^babelfish 15:00, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. One thing that might help -- you don't have to start a new section to leave a new message. If you click the edit link by a heading, you can add more messages to the same section. Putting a colon in front of your message will indent it, then the next person leaving a message in the same place will use two colons to indent theirs further an so on. After about five or six colons, people usually remove all of them and start over looks kind like this:

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Hi

Hi

How are you?

Fine, how about you?

Great -- hey, look at this indenting!

Yeah, its pretty cool, huh?

Gets a bit silly after a while though.

Whew. That was a lot of colons.

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Anyways :) I'm also on instant messengers most of the day if you happen to have a quick question -- you can find all of my contact information here.Shell ^babelfish 15:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Boy image

Hi, I noticed that you added an image to the article Boy. It looks like a good picture that might be beneficial to the article. However, I think it's better to discuss it on the article's talk page Talk:Boy (you can also reach any article's talk page by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of the article) to see if other editors for the article agree. Lots of people try to add pictures of themselves, family members, pets, friends, etc. to various articles, and they can easily become overwhelmed with more photos than are necessary. I personally think that it's a good photo, and might be worth including in the article, but for now I've removed it because of the sorts of problems there have been in the past with people adding their own photos. If you would like to include it in the article, please propose the idea on the talk page and we'll see if there's a consensus for or against including it. Thanks. (Oh, and by the way, you can link to a photo without actually showing it by adding a colon like this – [[:Image:Human.jpg]] – useful for discussions) --Icarus ^(Hi!) 00:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Human.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Human.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 02:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

Wikimedia UK logo

Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Motto of the day

Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 02:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Bonne "Anniversaire Wikipédia"!

I saw from here that it's been exactly two years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 16:02, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 03:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

Today's motto...

→ Cum grano salis
("With a grain of salt")

Nominate one today!

Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

This message has been sent by pjoef on behalf of Motto of the Day to all editors of the English Wikipedia who are showing MOTD's templates on their pages, and to all the participants to MOTD: (page, template, and category).