User talk:Bleaney

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Hello Bleaney! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! – PeaceNT 07:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Invite

Hi, just a quick note to ask if you would be interested in joining WikiProject Bedfordshire? I see you've recently been making some valuable contributions to Bedfordshire articles and your input would be most welcome.--Starrycupz (talk) 14:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Don't worry, most wikipedians start off on rocky paths. Keep on going, and don't give up! They only block you if you vandilise other people's articles. Good luck with your wikipedian carear!

Yours Sincerely, Someone dedicated to making your day a little bit better! (talk) 15:01, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Photographs in the Wikimedia Commons

Hi, I notice you've been doing a lot of stuff on Bedford related pages, which is great. You do seem to be using only pictures found on the Wikipedia to illustrate these. However the Wikimedia Commons, the storehouse of media for Wiki projects, has a category commons:Category:Bedford (England) with loads more images all ready to use. And new pictures keep getting added. I hope this helps. --Simon Speed (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bedford College

Hey Bleaney, thanks for the help, I've added a bit of information to the page and I'll keep putting stuff up as I get it. You saved me a hell of a lot of work doing the disambiguation page for Bedford College, top work! Jlumsden (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Abbey Middle School

An editor has nominated Abbey Middle School, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abbey Middle School and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 09:59, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. TerriersFan (talk) 16:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abbey Middle School

I have replied on my talk page, where we should keep the conversation. TerriersFan (talk) 23:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citing sources

I see that you have done further good work on Cauldwell. It would be helpful if you formatted the references. Firstly, presentationally it looks better and secondly it aids the reader in deciding if its a source they want to follow up. There are two ways of doing. There is the lazy way I used in Abbey Middle School (I get bored with hard work :-) ). Then there is the proper way using citeweb. Guidance on this can be found at WP:CITE or copy the format from Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a particularly well sourced page. TerriersFan (talk) 00:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfghanStar

Thank you for creating AfghanStar! Nicely done. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 12:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abbey Middle School

I know that you are sore that this page was not kept but removing the material doesn't help. I gave you significant help and made suggestions as to sourced material that you could have (but you did not) added such as the special measures saga. The way forward is to develop the article in the locality and, when it has sufficient additional sources, it can be recreated. TerriersFan (talk) 17:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] B4U

It's best to link the term B4U to the Dance Dance Revolution article, B4U is primarily known as a DDR song. The disambiguation link is there to allow people to find the articles that you created about the two companies with the term B4U in their title. Is someone simply searches for B4U they will be led to the most common result first and be able to go to the other articles from there. Otherwise searching for B4U movies or music will take them straight to the correct articles.

It's good that you created the pages, otherwise I would have never known about the companies myself, however there are far less notable and certainly aren't the first things that come to someone's mind when you say B4U. Please leave the pages as they are. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 14:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia, popularity is not the same as notability. Regardless of how well you know something it's about the broad view. Of course everything links to the disambig now, you changed the links. And I think it's funny that you argued B4U the song not being an article when the information in the 4thMix article about B4U is as large as your stubs (And I haven't gotten around to overhauling that one yet). I'll leave it as is cause I'm pretty sure you'd go to war over this, but it'll be called into question again at a later time. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 01:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

WOW! Nobody wins anything. The Wikipedia policy on saying how important something is; is to show people, not just sit there and say 'This is important'. They call it peacock terms, and I tend to agree. It's not enough to say that something is more important than something else, the article needs to reflect it. I could sit here and say your TV channels are confined to a single country. DDR is a worldwide game and B4U is one of the most synonymous songs with the series. It's been remixed several times by established artists and fans alike, been featured in dozens of games in the series and heard by multiple millions of players in a vast majority of the civilized world. The song has even been in other video games due to its popularity. So what? If I can't find notable references to back those facts up then as far as Wikipedia and its community cares B4U is just a piece of music from a video game. So don't tell me how much more important these stations are than a song, show me. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 14:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

And yet none of those articles linked simply to B4U, they link to the precise articles. The exact term "B4U" still only applies to the song on Wikipedia. The number of articles your idea of B4U appears in is not relevant to the term's notability or importance anyways. If you think I'm holding a double-standard then you really need to pay attention to what I'm writing, here's a quote from the text right above; "the information in the 4thMix article about B4U is as large as your stubs (And I haven't gotten around to overhauling that one yet).". Meaning I intend to fix the obvious problems... Interestingly, your stubs have only as many references as the 4thMix article. If someone is looking for the TV stations they'll search for the full name. If they decide to use a blanket term that's already in use by something else they'll be taken there, and oh look, still have access to related articles with B4U in the title. That's how it's suppose to work but I'll leave it as is, as I said before... for now. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 15:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)