User talk:Iggy the Lion

Welcome[edit]

Hello Iggy the Lion and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm AndrewvdBK, one of the many editors of this great website. I've posted this just to give you some useful advice and help you to settle in. You'll find that Wikipedia is much more than just articles and that there are many areas in which you can help out.

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Good luck and happy editing! AndrewvdBK (talk)

AndrewvdBK ^{you talkin' to me?} 21:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help 'out of scope'[edit]

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

my page keeps getting deleted for being out of scope and I don't know how to get it in scope, or even how it is out of scope.

Hi there :) Which page are you talking about? Then I'll see what I can do to help. AndrewvdBK ^{you talkin' to me?} 22:07, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it isn't an official page. It is on my "User Page", I'm working on it and editing it so that I can eventually submit it (That's how it works right? It is an article about the "Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles"

A good way to write articles is to create them as a subpage in your account. I'll make one for you - User:Iggy the Lion/Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles. Put this link on your user page. You can copy and paste your work into this and then continue to edit it at will. Once you're done with it, press the 'move' button (the arrow at the top of the page), which will move it into Wikipedia as a proper article. Hope this helps. AndrewvdBK ^{you talkin' to me?} 22:21, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page looks promotional (and yes, that concern does apply to non-profit orgs). If it is designed to be an article, then it needs "reliable sources" as according to our core values. If it is just your user page, then it needs toning down; it's OK to say a little about your interests, but it is never acceptable to 'advertize'.

Please read the business FAQ. Cheers, Chzz ► 22:26, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the input! Iggy the Lion (talk) 22:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Order of talk page[edit]

You'll notice, I just moved your help request to the end. It's best if you add new comments at the end of pages - as I have done here; keep things in a chronological order. So - if you have another question, add it at the end. Cheers, Chzz ► 23:04, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. ♥ Solarra ♥ ^{♪ Talk ♪} ߷ _{♀ Contribs ♀} 00:14, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

June 2012[edit]

Your addition to Center for the Study of Los Angeles has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. tedder (talk) 01:13, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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