User talk:Sdbhist

Hello, Sdbhist! 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! LittleOldMe 16:52, 30 May 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

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Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page Sabbath and Seventh-day Baptists. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. LittleOldMe 16:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Rather than deleting it, I've userfied this, meaning that I've put it here, User:Sdbhist/Sabbath and Seventh-day Baptists, in your user space so that you can clean it up. Some suggestions: first, read the material in the above welcome template on how we do things. Second, once it's cleaned up and ready to go live again, calling it simply Seventh-day Baptists. Third, you will need to make this a very neutral, encyclopedic tone. Write like you're an outsider, and an agnostic, merely reporting on the group's existence. You can speak a bit about beliefs, but you're just reportin on them, not promoting them. Emphasize the groups history. Most of all, provide independent, verifiable referneces in footnote form. If, after you have read the material, you have questions on how to do things, let me know and I'll be happy to help out. (Just don't contact me on Saturday!) AKRadecki 18:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I just realized that there's already an article on the group, Seventh Day Baptist. Rather than creating a new article, consider simply editing the existing one. AKRadecki 18:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it. I started out just trying to clarify some of the historical facts, as there are pieces of the article on SDB's and the English Dissenters that are factually incorrect. I'm the Librarian-Historian for the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society, and it is my job to document these kinds of facts. I'll try to get it cleaned up a bit more before I submit the one page, but some of the other information apart from the creation of the new page should not have been removed. I'll be adding it with footnotes shortly.Sdbhist 20:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)