User talk:Patricknoddy

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Rod Blagojevich

Two problems with your latest edit. First of all, that material is copyrighted, and illegal to post here; see Wikipedia:Copyrights for more info. Second, the material is not neutral; we try to follow a neutral point of view policy. Please don't add in material like this in the future. Of course, if you'd like to add to the Blagojevich article with your own writing, that would be fine. Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:24, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Copyright violations

You must stop adding these copyright violations. Please stop immediately. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:33, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Your contribution at New Jersey State Capitol is also copyrighted.

Welcome to Wikipedia, and we hope you will continue to contribute. All sorts of input are welcome. However we have to say very clearly that submitting copyright work is illegal!. If we do not stop it, Wikipedia may be shut down, and potentially anyone submitting such material may be sued.

In case you are not familiar with the rules, here is a brief summary. All text and pictures are potentially copyright - that means books, newspapers and stuff on the web. It also means images. Everything is copyrighted unless the author explicitly says it is not. Unless a web page says it is public domain, (or explicitly licensed for use under the GNU Free Documentation License or something very similar) we cannot use it. Note that 'free for non-commerical use is not good enough - Wikipedia might be used commercially.

Because of the potentially serious consequences of copyright violation we will have to stop you if you continute to add illegal articles. If you don't understand please ask someone at Wikipedia:Help desk.

Thanks. DJ Clayworth 15:03, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Patrick - please don't blank articles that have been listed for copyright violation. We need to give people a chance to object, and then the entire history will be deleted. In the meantime people who find a blank article will not know that it is scheduled for deletion, and will add text to it. They will then be upset when it is deleted.

If you wish to agree that they should be deleted, say so on the talk page. DJ Clayworth 21:53, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

If you blank articles that are not copyright violations, that is considered vandalism. Please stop. DJ Clayworth 21:55, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Second Grader

Patrick:

Hi again, and welcome to Wikipedia. We don't get many second graders here - how old are you? (You can add things yourself to this page)

I'm glad to see you've stopped copying articles from other parts of the web - we are really looking for people to write new things. You may want to look at this link here [1] (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - this is another encyclopedia just like Wikipedia, but written in simple language for people learning English. It really needs people to write new articles.

If you keep contributing here, I suggest you ask questions here Wikipedia:Help desk before anything you don't understand. When you ask say you are in second grade - you'll get better help. Have fun DJ Clayworth 13:39, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Tips

Hi Patrick,

I'm the guy who emailed you before. I'd just like give you a few tips. When you create a list, you should use bullets. Right now, your lists look like this:

User:Chrisn4255 User:Patricknoddy User talk:Chrisn4255

Lists that have bullets look like this:

To make a list with bullets, type them this way:

*[[User:Chrisn4255]]
*[[User:Patricknoddy]]
*[[User talk:Chrisn4255]]

My other tip is about short articles. When you write a short article (like one or two sentences), go to the bottom, and type:

At the bottom of the article people will see:

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php?title=User_talk:Patricknoddy&action=edit).

This will tell them to write more about the article (if they know anything more about it).

I hope this helps.

Like DJ Clayworth said: you might want to go to http://simple.wikipedia.orgbecause (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) it's a lot like Wikipedia, but it's written with small words, and it really needs people to write new articles. If you stay with us here, then ask questions at Wikipedia:Help desk before doing anything you don't know about. When you ask, say you are in second grade - you'll get better help.

Feel free to ask me hereif (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Chrisn4255&action=edit) you have a question, or if you want me look at an article (I like politics and history, too!). Chris N. 01:39, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

wikipedia:Article of the week

Why were you making a list of companies on wikipedia:Article of the week? That is not what that page is there for. I have reverted your changes. Thue | talk 16:45, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Heirs Apparent

I've moved your page to a more grammatically correct title. Mike H 02:25, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)

Airport articles

I don't think anyone has really explained what the problem with your airport articles was - or why I've just had to delete them.

Nearly everything on the internet belongs to someone - if a company puts information on their web site they own that information. This means that we cannot use their writing on wikipedia - it is what's described as under copyright. Generally Wikipedia can only accept writing that is done for Wikipedia - there are a few exceptions (ask me if you are interested). Taking writing from other websites isn't allowed. Please don't be put off - you are very welcome here - and I personally am very happy that a second grader is helping to make this encyclopedia. If you have any questions please leave me a message and I will do my best to help. Yours Secretlondon 01:48, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Good job

Good job on catching that vandalism in the article 1908. Nobody caught that for 11 months! Chris N. 00:47, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I and V

Hi Patrick, I've taken the liberty of removing the links on I and V to the pages I (disambiguation) and V (disambiguation), respectively, for now. The main reason is that for the entire alphabet, the meanings of the letter are included on the main page, since the articles are short enough. Maybe in the future if more is written, it might change, but for now it should be left as it is. (Although feel free to add to the articles if there is anything missing). Happy wiki-ing —siro χ o 04:31, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

Dates

Hi - we don't normally have pages for specific days in history; rather, important events would be on a page like March 4 instead of March 4, 1797. Evercat 20:54, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Patrick. My name is Danny and I have been on Wikipedia for three years. I am very happy that you are helping us make an encyclopedia. The articles you add are very good starts. I hope you continue to help us. If you have any questions, please ask me here (Danny. I will be happy to answer if I can. Danny 01:11, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Writing

Hey! I noticed your entries and I've thought they are really good! You seem to know a lot about the state of Delaware. How would you like to write an article for the Simple English Wikipedia on Delaware? Simple English Wikipedia is for people from other countries who are learning English, and many of them might want to know about that state. [2] (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware) Click on the number there, and you'll be able to start writing about Delaware for them. If you're interested about writing about West Virginia (I see you're from there; you must know a whole lot about it!), you can click on this number here [3] (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia) and start writing on West Virginia there. When you're done writing, tell me on my talk page here and let me know so I can read what you wrote! :-)

If you need to know anything about how Wikipedia works, either here or at the Simple English, find me on my talk page (the link is in the paragraph before this one) and write me a note. Mike H 01:28, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Some really good edits today. Thanks! Danny 00:18, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bank Holiday Watch

Hi, Patrick. I just put a speedy delete on your recent Bank Holiday Watch article, since the Belgium holiday was already mentioned (with more detail) in July 21. Next time you want to add a holiday, add it to a date article (and try to put in something more encyclopedic than "Belgium, today is your national day!") --Ardonik 20:21, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

And

Hey! I saw your contributions and I like the links you've added. However, I would like to say that it isn't proper English to start a sentence with "and". See how I worded your sentence in Key West, Florida and try to model your other sentences after that. :-) Mike H 21:21, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Patrick, it would be a good idea if you put an article after the redirects you are making, so that people know that we dont have an article about that topic yet. THanks. Danny 15:38, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

selected anniversaries

Please do not put current events on selected anniversaries templates. --mav 04:00, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Again, leave current events off the Selected anniversaries pages. An event is not an anniversary until at least one year has gone by since it happened. --mav

Also, please remove those FUTURE events from Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries. Anniversaries are about things happened in the past only. Thanks, Patrick. -- PFHLai 20:24, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

That's a great tip, thanks so much for telling me about it. I'm new around here. Koyaanis Qatsi 17:17, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Disambigs

You shouldn't create a disambiguation page if there's only one definition of the article. Make it into a redirect instead. For example:

Do this:

#REDIRECT [[Rhodesville, Alabama]]

Not this:

Rhodesville is the name of a town in the United States:

Rhodesville, Alabama

[[User:Mike Storm|Mike∞Storm]] 18:32, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Why did you just post a large number of links about Alaska to my talk page? DJ Clayworth 21:10, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

List of nicknames used by George W. Bush

Hi Patricknoddy, I noticed you added "Pickles" as a nickname that George W. Bush uses for his wife. We need to add a reference for this entry, since there are many satyrical articles about Bush nicknames.

Many of the nicknames on this page have been found to be fictional, or nicknames created by people other than the president. This particular nickname has been removed from the list before.

I was unable to find a reference for this nickname that was not satire. Can you please remove this entery (if someone else doesn't first) or add a reference? Thank You, Pud 22:14, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Huntsville, Alabama Vincity?

What is "Vincity"? Do you mean vicinity? How can the airport not be in the Huntsville vicinity? Don't forget Normal, Alabama, Meridianville, Alabama, Madison, Alabama, and Decatur, Alabama. -- ke4roh 02:24, Aug 23, 2004 (UTC)

Strange signature

Hi Patrick! I noticed that you have a peculiar way of signing your posts, namely with a series of links to your user and talk pages and multiple timestamps (e.g., Talk:Home Depot, Talk:Lowe's). I find this quite confusing. Was this intentional? --Diberri | Talk 21:13, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

Categories & other things

OK Patrick... I think your heart is in the right place but it's really time you slowed down a little and thought through your actions a bit more. Please read carefully all the comments made above and make sure you understand them.

Please also note that users (ie me and you) should not be added to categories. I'm guessing you've added yourself to the category relating to your home town. That's understandable. However, categories are for grouping article pages together, not us folk, the users. So, I'm about to remove the categories from your user page and from this talk page too.

Please have a look at Help:Contents and let that guide you. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 22:53, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

Patrick, it look slike you added yourself to categories when you tried to list categories you've created. You can display categories you've created without adding the page to the category by putting a : after the first [[

So, if you create a category called example, you can show that by typing [[:category:example]]

However, please be very careful creating categories - you should probably ask people if it's OK to create one at Wikipedia Talk:Categorization first. (believe me, I should know, they delete most of mine...) --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 00:10, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

Any admins visiting this page?

Hmmm. If anyone can figure out where the coding is that put this page on category:disambiguation can they take it off? I've searched through the page and can't figure out where the category coding is! --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 23:00, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

Categories and templates

Hi there, I just listed Category:Washington DC for deletion—there is already a well-established Category:Washington, DC (and the comma must be included).

I also removed the categories from the television station templates you had created. It is a bad idea to categorize templates, because those automatically slap categories on whatever article the template text is included in, such as your user page. Though it may take a little work, it avoids more problems to manually include the category tags within the articles themselves. I was also wondering what you were hoping to accomplish with these templates—currently, they all appear to only have off-site links in them, which wouldn't be an appropriate usage. I think categories would be better for this kind of grouping anyway; there is already a Category:Television stations in Washington, DC, and there should be similar categories formed eventually in the PA and DE categories too. Postdlf 18:42, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

RE:RE: Disambigs

Can you please rephrase what you said? Maybe it's because my head hurts today, but I couldn't understand your sentence structure. [[User:Mike Storm|Mike∞Storm]] 20:45, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Hi, Patrick, I removed your nomination from Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. It looked to me, and several other people, like you meant it as a joke. However, some people thought you might be serious and it was causing a lot of confusion. If you really are interested in becoming an administrator, please follow the guidelines on that page carefully. Personally, I think it might be best if you wait a little while. In the meantime, it's great to have someone like you contributing to Wikipedia! --Michael Snow 20:39, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"Articles started by me"

Hello, I was a little curious as to why you had listed Category:Pennsylvania and Category:Delaware on your user page as having been started by you. Check the history of those categories and you'll see your error. Postdlf 06:47, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps he means he was the first to add content to these categories? And what's with all these people patronising Patrick? Geeze. --Node 20:39, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikiquote

Patrick, don't add Wikiquote links unless we actually have quotes from those people in Wikiquote, all right? If you're going to add quotes, great, but do that first. Everyking 00:21, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project. -- sannse (talk) 21:49, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

I do not mean to be rude but ......

Please think twice before making edits. You added Fidel Castro to the list of people, who came to power in a coup d'etat. That is wrong. I do not have time to correct edits by ignorant users. Andries 21:55, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Featured article candidates

Hello. I was just wondering if you made the nomination at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kentucky Derby or whether this is this someone impersonating you. Please let me know, or leave a note on that page while logged in. Thanks. Angela . 19:29, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

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