User talk:Davaclarke
Welcome! And explanation
[edit]Hi Davaclarke! I'm sorry for the harsh welcome you recieved for The Gold Bug Variations. The user who nominated it for speedy deletion didn't how the article fit into an encyclopedic context, and I guess didn't have the patience/time to look furthern themselves. User:Jpgordon saw that it didn't qualify under the Wikipedia standards for Wikipedia:Speedy deletions at all, and removed that tag.
I happened to notice it on the Special:Recent changes page, and I quickly added the {{cleanup}} and {{POV check}} tags to get at what seemed to be the problems with the article. And I put it in Category:Novels. You did a great job at addressing the point of view, so it's more like an encyclopedia entry than a book review! Now you can see how I "Wikified" it: identifying the author, linking to related articles as they come up in the text, etc. Now we've got the start of a real encyclopedia article. :)
Now that you've got more of a hang of how we edit here, I hope you stick around! Peace, Samaritan 22:26, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
By the way, to sign your name with the date and time like I just did - the standard way to sign yourself on Wikipedia:Talk pages or vote pages or so on here - use four tildes, like so: ~~~~
(Clumsily, I put the above on User:Davaclarke where I should have put it here on User talk:Davaclarke. User:Davaclarke is just for you. - S.)
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