User talk:Proteotopian

Welcome!

Hello, Proteotopian, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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-- Lonewolf BC (talk) 03:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Signing in and signing posts[edit]

Greetings, again, Proteotopian.

Please log into your account when you are editing or making comments on talkpages. Also, as it says above, please sign your talkpage comments by typing four tildes at the end of them. Provided that you are signed in, when you save your post the four tildes are automatically replaced with your user-name, the time of your post, and so on. (If you are not signed in, the four tildes will produce your IP address instead of your user-name.) These things, signing in and signing your posts, are handy both for you and for other editors. If you sign in when you edit, then your editing history is readily available under your user-name, for you or another editor to review. This is much less easy if your editing history is spread out among various IP addresses. Likewise, it is useful to have post-times for your comments, and for them to be consistently under your user-name. I gather that you are a fairly new editor, and manually signing your comments with your user-name even though you were not signed in was a worthy try, but it is much better to be signed in and simply use the tildes.
Thanks. -- Lonewolf BC (talk) 04:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just following on from the above, to clarify, the 4 tildes go at the end of your talkpage posts, not at the end of your edit-summaries when you edit the article. (Edit-summaries are sometimes given for talkpage posts, too, though generally not; in the event that you write an edit-summary for a talkpage comment, don't end the summary with the tildes, but only end the comment itself with them.) I mention this because you used the four tildes at the ends of your edit-summaries for your most recent edits to the Douglas article. I suppose you've likely realised for yourself that this was a mistake, but if not then there you are. I see that you used the tildes rightly to sign your talkpage comment associated with those article-edits. Thanks for that, and well done.
-- Lonewolf BC (talk) 19:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Charles Demers[edit]

The article Charles Demers has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Ϣere SpielChequers 07:29, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Emily Winfield Martin[edit]

Hello Proteotopian,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Emily Winfield Martin for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. DOCUMENT★ERROR 14:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]