User talk:AHands

Welcome to the Wikipedia. If you have questions, stop by the Village Pump. By the way, your articles haven't just been "submitted"--they're automatically part of the Wikipedia as soon as you tell it to save the file. Vicki Rosenzweig 23:00 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Other helpful pages include:

Have fun! --Jiang 23:13 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Stub text: Wikipedia:Boilerplate_text#Stub_alert!

I think that Bicycle Chain is a reasonable redirect to bicycle chain, so I don't think it really needs to be deleted. When you are signed in, you can use the "Move this page" feature to move a page from the wrong place to the right one, without cutting and pasting the text. Using that feature is nicer, because it preserves the edit history of the page all in one place. Now that I come to look at this particular case, it doesn't really matter, because there was no edit history apart from what you'd done anyway, but in general it is a good idea, so that when people look at the edit history they can see it all in one place. Oh yes, and welcome to the Wikipedia. :) -- Oliver P. 21:24 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! Questions:

What's the proper way to respond to User talk? Like this? or should I respond in User_talk:Oliver_Periera ?
(I just noticed the <Show preview> button ! Cool ! I wouldn't have saved so many bad edits if I'd noticed it before! )
Is that timestamp at the end of your post generated automagically? Is there some meta-thingee to do that?
I want to add an entry that contains a Spanish "enye" character - Bun~ol - should the entry/filename be:
- Bun~ol
- Bu + whatever hex unicode thing it takes + ol
- Bunyol (English phonetic)
- Bunol (just pretend the tilde isn't there)
- ???

--Adrian

Hi Adrian. Whether you respond here or Oliver's talk page seems to be a matter of preference. Some people prefer to keep a conversation in one place so they reply on the same page. If the conversation's important, the other person can add this page to their watchlist, so they will know when you've replied to them. On the other hand, the advantage to replying on Oliver's page is that he will get the You have new messages appear at the top of the page straight away, so he will definitely get your message.

The timestamp is automatic. Just put four tildes (~) and it will change to your signature followed by the time. Three tildes just does your signature without the time.

I'm afraid I can't help with the special characters thing. You might get a response quicker if you ask at the Village pump.

Good luck with your editing. Angela 23:32 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks! AHands 12:04 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello, AHands! Sorry for my delay in replying. I think it's okay for you to reply on this page, because I usually remember to check for replies to messages I leave for people. :) If I forget, you can always pester me on my talk page. But be sure to spell my surname correctly, or you'll end up at the wrong place. :) I've replied to your question about naming conventions at the village pump. -- Oliver P. 16:39 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

   I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

AHands 05:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello AHands! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 709 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Felice Gimondi - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Parc Étang listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Parc Étang. Since you had some involvement with the Parc Étang redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 14:16, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]