VanArtGuy

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Topographical tradition

If you want to link to an article, this is how to do it (although the upper-case is no longer needed). Sorry if this is old hat to you; I thought it might help. Ericoides (talk) 14:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

It's not old hat at all; thanks for the guidance. I have been happily making all my wikilinks external links and I wondered why the bot told me there were too few internal links. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Again, thanks. VanArtGuy (talk) 18:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Great. I'm the world's least computer-literate person but I find that if I look at and copy other people's coding I can do what seem to me to be quite complicated things, such as templates. It's all a bit nerdy but the end possibly justifies the means. Ericoides (talk) 18:43, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Another good tip. Actually that is the way I start out too, but I tend to be a trial-and-error kind of guy--too much so--and if something looks like it's working, my attention wanders away from the model. A New Year's resolution can be more focus on my coding models.VanArtGuy (talk) 09:04, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Laiwan

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A tag has been placed on Laiwan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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