User talk:Downypilt

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Downypilt! 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

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Thanks! Downypilt (talk) 15:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit summaries[edit]

Hi, nice to see that you are using edit summaries. Just a note to say that you don't need to sign edit summaries with four tildes as the software shows who made the edit. Save the tildes for talk pages etc. Mjroots (talk) 19:38, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Downypilt. You have new messages at Talk:SS Great Western.
Message added 22:52, 14 October 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I am by no means against your suggested move but we need to establish WP:Consensus on the talk page. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:52, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PLease donm't place notes in teh artcile itself, discuss on the talk page and I am sure we will get it moved. If you persist in adding notes etc to the artcile you will be reported for edit warring and vandalism. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you must sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 16:49, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please, please, please stop adding ~~~~ when you are editing articles. Your signature is just for signing additions to talk pages, not when editing article text. NtheP (talk) 12:31, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Signing edits in main article space[edit]

Please don't use the "~~~~" auto-signature outside of talk pages, particularly not for article mainspace. Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 13:57, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop doing this. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:13, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are we going to have to follow round every single one of your edits and remove your signature when it's inappropriately applied? YOU ONLY ADD YOUR SIGNATURE ON TALK PAGES. You are being very correct about adding a fullstop after Esq. but yet despite several messages you keeping adding a signature on articles, is there someway we are failing to explain the use of signatures somehow? NtheP (talk) 16:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

October 2010[edit]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. LittleOldMe (talk) 17:07, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge[edit]

I thought I'd swap to your talk page :-) You've obviously got a great deal of knowledge and access to information which is great to share and I and many others are happy to help you out but I'd like to suggest that you read some of the policies listed in the welcome message at the top of the page. Not only will it help you become more confident about editing but may speed things up for you as you don't need to ask first. Like I said please don't stop asking if you are unsure but if you think something is harmless add it, the worst outcome is that it gets deleted again, but do read the policires first. I know on one article talk page, I think it was about the locomotive Fire Queen you asked was it ok to add information about the yachts by that name. I can't recall if there was an answer but in my opinion the answer would be No. Not because it's not interesting and encylopedic knowledge but only because it's the wrong place for that information. If the yachts called Fire Queen are notable enough to merit their own article (not a question I intend to address here and now) then create one, the two articles can be cross referenced by a variety of means e.g. Disambiguation or hatnotes but the wholly wrong thing would be to add copious information about yachts into an article about a railway locomotive just because they share a name.

If you ever want to ask anything or just (re)assurance just leave a message at my talk page and I'll get back to you. NtheP (talk) 18:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image names[edit]

Hi again, image names don't need punctuating, in fact this breaks the link to the image. So when you added '' '' around Osborne in the filename [[File:HMY Osborne ca1895.tiff.jpg]] to make it [[File:HMY ''Osborne'' ca1895.tiff.jpg]] you broke the link. NtheP (talk) 10:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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