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| Please do '''not'' edit the templates themselves. Rather you copy the relevant parts of them to the page you want it displayed in - in this case your user page - and change the info there. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 07:31, 6 August 2007 (CDT) | | Please do '''not'' edit the templates themselves. Rather you copy the relevant parts of them to the page you want it displayed in - in this case your user page - and change the info there. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 07:31, 6 August 2007 (CDT) |
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| ==Need any help?==
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| Hi, there. Hopefully you don't feel like you're jumped on each time you write something; my personal apologies if you do. The Battlestar Wiki has pretty established purposes and guidelines, and they can get complex in some places. Have you had opportunity to read a few key [[BW:SAC|guidelines]] and [[BW:CJ|policies]]? Or have you found the [[BW:TUT|tutorial]] any help? Any contributor here, especially the [[BW:AN|administrators]], who are all fairly veteran contributors, will be happy to answer any questions you have so you can feel comfortable when adding a contribution. It's best to ask questions on our [[BW:AN|administrator's noticeboard]] where we will all see the question, rather than our personal talk pages (unless you feel comfortable writing to just one of us). Don't let our comments dissuade you from making more articles, but do search the wiki first to see if a similar article is already in place. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 09:31, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :Yeah, I hope you don't feel treated unjust or that you did something terribly wrong, since this is the second time an article of yours might be deleted. We have guidelines and policies here, and there is certainly a preferred way to do everything. All that is explained somewhere, but it's also so much that it can be overwhelming. Even most of the admins made one or the other error when they started out, and we still make errors. Since everything can be changed, it's no big deal if you aren't angry about losing any work or if there's something you'd rather see done another way (I know that feeling :) ).
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| :I second the suggestion to look at the major articles (like the Twelve Colonies and Cylon series) to get an impression of how things are done and what articles exist and which ones don't (though most major topics are probably covered). If you have an idea for an article that's really new, maybe bring up it up on some talk page first - though if you are sure about it, you don't have to. Otherwise feel free to add to existing ones. Grammar or style will probably still be edited, but with time you should learn from it. And noone expects you to get every little detail right from the start. Such edits are a large part of our work here. :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:50, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
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| Thank you, i was feeling a little annoyed but i do understand that things are run in a set way. When i get it wrong in the futur, and i'm sure i will as i learn, please would you explain excatly what i've done wrong and how to do it right. Thanks. I will read through everything again, though i did before i even joined, and hopefully it will all sink in. Thanks for you time, Raven xXx [[User:Kittenmaia|Raven]] 11:46, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
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| :Usually, severe reverts will be explained on the user's talk page like I did above (with the simms article). That I didn't give my reasons for adding the deletion tag about "Humans" might have been an error, but I knew that some sort of discussion would ensue, even if you didn't ask. But yeah, I probably should have explained it right away. With small errors, like style edits, you might find an explanation in the edit summary or you can see the change by comparing the edits (click on an article's "history" or on "diff" in Recent Changes).
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| :As said, don't be discouraged. You don't have to know all the style conventions right away, but having a general idea what isn't allowed here - like fan fiction or general encyclopedic articles - is useful, and we note that in the welcome message and each new user's talk page. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:05, 6 August 2007 (CDT)
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| == User name question ==
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| Kittenmaia, I noticed you "aliased" your name above in reply to "Raven". Unfortunately that username has already been taken by someone, but if you want to change your user name to something else, let me know. Here is our [[BW:NAMES|user name policy]]. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:52, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
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