User talk:Lavalamp from Mars

Welcome to my talk page. Lavalamp from Mars (talk) 08:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Lavalamp from Mars, good luck, and have fun. --PamD (talk) 09:44, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boxford Primary School

You're going to have to tell us why the school is "notable" in Wikipedia terms, or someone will come along and delete it. Primary schools are not considered inherently notable. PamD (talk) 09:44, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could it not be merged into Boxford. Lavalamp from Mars (talk) 09:45, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course you could add the information to Boxford, Suffolk. PamD (talk) 12:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy tagging

Thanks for tagging Moshi Club EK EM, which I have deleted, and for giving the new user a Welcome message, but rather than just {{db}} it is better to use one of the more specific tags listed at WP:CSD - in this case, {{db-club}}. That generates a more relevant message for the author. If you are going to do New Page Patrol, which is a very good and useful thing to do, you should read WP:CSD carefully; also, there is good advice for speedy taggers from an experienced admin at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Where the article being speedied is the new author's first, a useful variant of the Welcome message is {{subst:firstarticle|<articlename>}}. There is one oddity about that one: it automatically generates a signature, so for once you don't have to add four tildes. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:32, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Page as Patrolled

Hello! Can you please mark the page as "patrolled" once you tagged it or reviewed it? Thank you! Dengero (talk) 12:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Englewood-Chicago (Erie Railroad station)

I can't put the message on a related page, so I have to put it here. The original redlink for Englewood-Chicago (Erie Railroad station) was created by User:Mitchazenia and intended for a station article that hasn't been written yet. I erroneously redirected it to Englewood Station (Chicago). If you delete the article, and Mitchazenia recreates the article as intended, I strongly urge you not to re-delete it. ----DanTD (talk) 12:16, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blanked pages

Some more advice: where a page has been blanked, you need to look at the history to see what has gone on. {{db-blank}} is often not the right tag. It may be vandalism, in which case restore the previous version and give the vandal a suitable warning from the {{uw-del1}} series. With Tailfingen just now, it wasn't vandalism - the IP who blanked it thought the redirect that was there before was inappropriate, and said why on the talk page, but I disagree, so I have restored the redirect. But often, as with First Time (Offer Nissim album) just now, the author has blanked his own page. We take that as a request to delete: the thing to do is tag the page with {{db-g7}} (or {{db-author}}, which is the same thing). You don't need to give the author any warning - a new author who realises his page is inappropriate and blanks it will be confused if he is given a warning for the blanking.

Don't be worried by all this advice - the best way to learn is to make mistakes and have them pointed out. Keep up the good work! JohnCD (talk) 12:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

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I have just created the shortcust shown below to Wikipedia:Vandalism#How to respond to vandalism, can I please have an autoconfirmed user make the changes please, thankyou. Lavalamp from Mars (talk) 15:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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