User talk:Josh Is Dead

Hi to everyone and welcome to my (Wikipedia's) talk page. While I have been an avid user/reader of Wikipedia for a long time I have only recently started making a small attempt at editing, hopefully creating articles soon and generally contribute and improve Wikipedia which I love.

Please help me with any criticisms, suggestions and tips.--Josh Is Dead (talk) 21:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

removed comment.

I removed your comment for a few reasons. One, You were replying in a dead section. That section had not had comments for well over a year, and the matter was settled. Two, your post was far more about arguing a theological point with another user then with talking about the article, which runs afoul of WP:FORUM, which talks about improper uses of a Wikipedia article talk page. Third, because my attention was called to how old material on the page was, I made the decision to archive, and decided that editors choosing to discuss the article, and not other editors, can always tart new section on the talk page. None of it should be taken as any personal slight. Feel free to discuss the article, not editors, on that, or any, talk page. ThuranX (talk) 22:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi Josh Is Dead! welcome to Wikipedia!

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I hope you stick around and keep contributing to Wikipedia. If you need help, you can drop a note on my talk page or use Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. You can also type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia! Maedin\^talk 08:04, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Your question on subpages

Hello Josh Is Dead, I have responded to your question about subpages; see here! I hope you find the answer helpful, but do of course let me know if you need any further help, :-) Maedin\^talk 08:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!

Oh, thank you very much for the "table of contents". It took me a while! Regards. Parvazbato59 (talk) 20:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for your help

Hi Josh, you're very welcome, I was glad to answer your question. It must have helped, you've created several subpages now! You've worked out how to do tabs, too, great result! I like how neat they are and tabs are so easy to navigate. So, you weren't talking rubbish, :-)

I know, Wikipedia is really confusing at first. I spent a lot of time looking at the "how to edit" pages and even read the Manual of Style from beginning to end. It seems like a steep learning curve at first, but trust me, a smart person like you will be au fait with most of it soon. I see that some of your edits at Tony Blair have been undone; I hope I am not overstepping a line by suggesting that you will probably have much better editing results if you start with a smaller, simpler article on a less prominent subject. Tony Blair being Tony Blair, there will be a lot of people watching the article who have probably put a lot of effort into the content, and they can be particular about what gets added and taken away. For a new editor, your time may be better spent where hugely important changes are needed . . . rescuing poorly written articles from deletion, for example, or expanding stubs. See here for a huge list of articles that haven't yet been written. If your strongest interest is in Tony Blair and government, try following some of the links in his article and see where they take you . . . you will undoubtedly find some that need a lot of work. By improving those, you will be improving Tony Blair's article, too, albeit indirectly. I think that's the best suggestion I can give you: a page like Tony Blair would be very daunting for a new editor. I encourage you to start out less ambitiously and find the thousands and thousands of places where every edit is an improvement and desperately needed. That way you will be increasing your edit count and coming across more learning opportunities.

I've been adopted by a very nice administrator here, SoWhy, and there are many more like him who take adoptees. If you're interested, maybe you would like to join the Adopt-a-User programme? Some adopters like to have "classes", where they set tasks and challenges for their adoptees, and others like to just be available as a "resource", so you can ask them questions whenever you have one. If either of those ideas sound good to you, then look into it; it's fun and a good way to be guided, :-)

I really appreciate your very nice comments about my userpage! It took a lot of work, even SoWhy had to help! I spaced the containers on my monitor at work during a lunch break—honest, they are perfectly spaced on that monitor! When I got home I found that it was all changed on a different monitor. Oh, well. I'm not going to mess with it anymore; I'm not that much of a perfectionist!

Let me know if you have any questions or want some more help. Keep editing! You'll be a great contributor, so stick around, ;-) Maedin\^talk 18:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Maedin, thanks so much for your positive message. I need this close this account because it can be traced to me from other places people know me on. I tried to open a new account yesterday but than mistakenly deleted from that account something I had on Josh Is Dead. So I got some sort of message from an administrator and I was very upset and really not in the mood to be bothered with anything anymore. But I will try again to open a new account and hopefully I can start from fresh. You will be hearing from me I hope - but under a different name... because I don't want any connection to the old name.

So kind of you to give me all those compliments! I especially liked editing Tony Blair because that's where I can get immediate and fruitful feedback which is what I need right now, learning and learning!

Your adoption idea sounds great, I checked out the whole issue. When I open my new account I am going to make a request for adoption. But I want to explain there exactly what I am looking for in an adopter and what my aims and goals are. Because I can also be a difficult type of guy even if I sound so cute....

How do you recommend I go about deleting ALL my user pages (I want to this in about a day or two from now)? So many thanks. You seem such a nice and pleasant person.--Josh Is Dead (talk) 03:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Maedin, just one more thing about those containers, maybe it is connected to the browser you were using at work that was different to the one you use at home? --Josh Is Dead (talk) 03:15, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I use firefox at home and at work, so it isn't that, :-) I think it's just monitor size and resolution. Good idea though! Maedin\^talk 11:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm not sure what sort of administrator message you may have received, but if you were doing something to a user page from a different account, it probably looked like vandalism. I wouldn't take it either personally or seriously: in fact, you should probably be pleased that someone was looking out for your stuff!

I'm glad you liked the idea of adoption and . . . what? You, difficult?! Rubbish! ;-) I'm sure someone would be pleased to have you as an adoptee. By the way, you may wish to consider this process for changing usernames. If you do use this method, you get to keep the contributions you've made; they'll be transferred to your new account. The downside would be that an entry is created in a log, showing that User:Josh is Dead moved to User:FartyFruitLoops (hey, that isn't such a bad choice . . .!). It depends on how worried you are about your account being traced to you. You have fewer than 100 edits, so it might not be worth going through the rename process.

In any case, when you are ready to have your userpages deleted permanently, you need to put {{db-userreq}} at the top of each page. This will place a speedy deletion template on the page, and after a short time an administrator will come by and delete the pages for you.

Anyway, look forward to hearing from you when you come back with a different account! Maedin\^talk 11:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)