User talk:Fopkins

Welcome

Hello, Fopkins, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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It looks like you've already got a pretty good idea of how to handle things, but if you do need anything, feel free to ask. --Emufarmers^(T/C) 03:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :) By the way, another user edited your user page, creating it; it looks like he meant to create it on his own page, so I've gone ahead and called for "your" user page's speedy deletion. You can recreate it afterwards if you wish (or you can edit it now if you don't mind having the current edits in its history). Enjoy yourself. --Emufarmers^(T/C) 04:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and welcome! Please see my reply to your comment, on my talk page. You might want to take a look at the block log to see just how much blocking is actually done. -- The Anome 01:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

Welcome, and thank you for correcting spelling on the Wikipedia:Maintenance page on Wikipedia! However, organise and organize both are acceptable spellings of the word.

Please familiarize yourself with American and British English spelling differences before making further spelling corrections to articles. Wikipedia has 48,232,671 registered users on this English Wikipedia. These editors use different versions of English including American English and British English. The list of dialects of the English language goes on and on.

When many styles are acceptable, avoid changing from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. It is acceptable to change from American spelling to British spelling only if the article concerns a British topic or vice versa or if you are making the article internally consistent.

More information is available on Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Enjoy your time on the internet's fastest growing encyclopædia/encyclopedia . Thank you. Ardric47 06:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the guidelines. I would not have changed this if I realized (or realised :P) that -ise was acceptable in the UK. Unfortunately for me, I did not know this. Now I do. Thank you for the informative article. Fopkins | Talk 06:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

England football bio stub sorting

Thanks a ton for sorting some of the English football bio stubs. However, I was going through some that you had sorted and noticed that you had tagged some players who weren't English with one of the four tags. Please keep in mind that if the player isn't an English national, they shouldn't be in one of the English biography categories. Instead, they should be in one of the other categories listed at WP:WSS/ST. Thanks again! --fuzzy510 05:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]