User talk:NigelSpiers

Welcome![edit]

Hello, NigelSpiers, Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Happy editing!

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand Blues[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the New Zealand Blues article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! FreplySpang (talk) 04:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great! It seems like you know a lot about this scene, so I'm sure you'll have lots of good stuff to add. Thanks, FreplySpang (talk) 04:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. The best place to look first is Wikipedia:Guide to layout, which explains the basic layout of a Wikipedia article. I'll lend a hand. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I hope that you'll be able to expand this article (and the other two that I created from it). It'd be nice to have separate articles for all the people and bands that you list, eventually.

By the way, remember to "sign" your comments on Talk pages, using four tildes (~~~~</nowiki); it makes it much easier to reply to you. :Happy editing! --~~~~ == Edit summaries == When [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|editing an article on Wikipedia]] there is a small field labelled "[[Wikipedia:Edit summary|Edit summary]]" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: [[Image:Edit_Summary-2.png|Edit summary text box]]The text written here will appear on the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] page, in the [[Wikipedia:Page history|page revision history]], on the [[m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Diff|diff page]], and in the [[meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using the Watchlist|watchlists]] of users who are watching that article. See [[m:Help:Edit summary]] for full information on this feature.When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for [[WP:-(|vandalism]] and may be [[WP:RV|reverted]], so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.  --[[User:Mel Etitis|Mel Etitis]] ([[User talk:Mel Etitis|Μελ Ετητης]]) 11:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)