User talk:Pvd21/Archive 1

ay buddy, I have the place for you! go check out this. Its a group of people on wikipedia who all come together to further the information and range of pages about video games that we have on wikipedia! they have conversations about the cool new things that they are doing, things they are getting done, requested pages to make, all sorts of things! check it out and get back to me when you find something more focused that you want to work on. video games is a HUGE category, so take some time... look through that group and see if you can tell me some specific video games and sections you want to work on! Maybe after reading that, go search for your favorite video games to see if they have articles and read through them. let me know if you come upon something that you want to improve that you know alot about! good luck! let me know how things go! Matthew Yeager 04:54, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Good stuff, it looks like you can do alot with that article! if you like you could copy that article into one of your subpages and work on it there... that way we can go over it and look through it before you save it on the real page. does that sound good ? also, yes defiantly dont copy anything word for word, because there is no reason in having it twice, yet if you wish just to take some ideas from other article that are relevant to your topic and you incorporate your own ideas with it, then there will be no problem. for that kind of stuff i do suggest that you make a separate page so that others can read through it first, because often its hard for the reader to determine if its "different enough" from the article he took it from. let me know what you think. Matthew Yeager 13:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

no problem buddy, i'm here to answer your questions so no worries. alright first thing, check out the page on copy editing. second, you are allowed to have subpages. subpages are additional pages that are linked to your user page that you can use for testing and developing new pages without having to save it on the actual page first. To create a subpage, mere make a link to the page you want to have something like this User:Pvd21/testing and it will show up red. click into it and create the page and save it, now you have your personal subpage for testing that article in! that way others can check it out and give you commentary on it and you dont have to worry about people reverting it or editing it until your done. cool ? did i explain it better ? if not let me know : ) Matthew Yeager 14:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

checked out the article... MUCH IMPROVED, good stuff buddy. be sure to check to ensure that you meant to have those 2 red links and that you plan on making them. as well, be sure to check out citing a page here,Wikipedia:Citing_sources, as it is required. ^[1] first and cite your source and any other sources you can find (the instruction books of the games that had background maybe, the websites...) and it shows you how to do it on the wiki page. a w\quick explaination of this would be to (after the content you need to cite) you put <ref>where you found this information at.</ref> and then at the end of the page put<reference/>
you can see as in my example below. if you have any questions, let me know. Matthew Yeager 17:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

page looks excellent and you may remove the "stub" tag as well! a stub is only a few sentences that needs its own section but is very small and has much more info to be added. you have done that. the subject looks quite full and no longer needs that tag. good stuff, replace the article without the stub tag on the original page whenever you feel ready. be sure to add an edit summary explaining your changes. Matthew Yeager 20:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia doesnt want to discourage any user from visiting its' site. With that, any thing that would restrict that is not allowed. This includes things that are only viewable for one browser or certain files, like flash files that require the person to have a player or software that they may not have. I would agree that flash files would make Wikipedia more user friendly for those that have flash, but would be horrible for those that dont. the closest thing they do allow is like the chess game you see on my user page where its a series of still frames... you could look into that, instead, i suppose. let me know if you have any other questions.
MatthewYeager 21:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Putting the flash files on your userpage might be a good start. That way we can use that as an example to show other people what you are talking about. Let me know when you have it up, i'd like to take a look.

MatthewYeager 17:03, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure its the developers at the wikipedia foundation, but i'll look into it for you.

MatthewYeager 19:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I see that you have copied my page (Just like your adopter, who actually is really bad at wikipedia). Please, try and make it so that it doesn't look like mine. Thank you. Oh, and if I were you, i wouldn't be Matthew Yeager's adoptee. -- KeybladeSephi ^(Talk) _{(Contributions)} 05:47, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Even though all text published under Wikipedia is under a GFDL license, it is impolite copying others userpages without permission. Consider making a note saying who the page was ripped from as seen here at the bottom of Durin and here User:Real96.

Give an article more than 4 minutes before proding it unless it is obvious vandalism or nonense. Try putting a stub or needs expert attention tag first. Postcard Cathy 21:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for signing my autograph page! Thanks again and cheers!!!! -Zacharycrimsonwolf 13:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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