User talk:Lotowinner

Welcome[edit]

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Greetings[edit]

Greetings Lotowinner - thanks for the message you left on my talk page. This place can certainly be confusing at times, especially when other editors slap unexpected templates on article you have created. Please don't take it personally, because it is simply basic maintenance procedure. However, please have a look at Citing sources above, and if you have time, a couple of other things just to get the hang of it. In the meantime, I will put a different tag on the article you created to give you a bit of extra time to find/add those sources. Happy editing! Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 00:49, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for message. I have moved the references you put at the top of the page onto the discussion page, pending incorporation into article if relevant. The first one was good, and I have added it to the article, but I haven't had time to check the others yet. And as I have to spend the rest of the afternoon finishing my tax declaration, I won't be able to get round to it till tomorrow. In case you aren't yet sure how to use them, choose the sentence to reference, leave the cursor flashing there and click the <ref></ref> in the wiki markup box under the text box, move the cursor to the centre of that and then click the []. Paste the website url between the brackets and add the article title and name of newspaper. The important thing is to get those inline citations in there quickly. They can be perfected later. BTW, your message on my talk page was correctly posted (but don't use caps - they are the internet equivalent of shouting and some more sensitive souls might take exception to them). Happy editing! --Technopat (talk) 12:47, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paintbrush[edit]

{{helpme}} Lotowinner (talk) 20:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)lotowinner i would like to ask a question about the box with the paintbrush that appears under external links on the Hard (music festival). Could you let me know what links you are speaking of and how i can edit that portion of the page. I cant see any external links. Any thoughts advice feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you kindly. Lotowinner (talk) 20:06, 10 September 2010 (UTC)lotowinner[reply]

That message appeared because of the code {{External links|date=August 2010}}.

As there were no external links, I removed it (and I removed the empty section heading). Chzz ► 20:14, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had a look through the history, and I found that it was added here on 20 Jult 2010 by Hippychickali (talk · contribs) - and there were no external links, so I don't know why they added it; you could always ask them on their talk page. Chzz ► 20:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Destructo (dj) for deletion[edit]

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June 2012[edit]

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