User talk:Quill

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Hi Quill, welcome to the dog breeds WikiProject. Any help you give will be great. There is some old talk at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dog breeds/General and the talk page, but mostly it's on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dog breeds or Talk:List of dog breeds. But don't worry about reading in detail or anything - just jump in anywhere that catches your interest. If you need any help Elf and I are probably the most active in the project at the moment, so please give us a yell any time. Regards -- sannse (talk) 08:36, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcomes! I'll be talking to you, Sannse. Now, is there any point to my answering here, or do I have to go to your 'talk' pages? Quill 11:40, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Different people handle this in different ways really. I tend to answer on my talk page because I like to see the conversation all in one place. For the same reason I will almost always have someone's talk page on my watch list in case they do the same. But working this way means that the other person isn't notified of the message with a "you have new messages" header, so many users prefer to have conversations over two user talk pages. That's probably the more common pattern. If I want to be sure someone notices a reply, and think they might miss that I have replied on my talk page, I will drop them a note to tell them I have replied there - a combination of the two really. -- sannse (talk) 15:03, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi - I've just glanced over the new article you've created (Toy Fox Terrier), and thought I'd offer you some helpful layout advice. Wikipedia can't automatically link to webpages unless you give the full URL (the website address) - for example: www.google.co.uk won't work, but http://www.google.co.uk will. You also might be interested to learn how Wikipedia cites sources / links to external pages. These are each given their own subheading, like this:

References

Put each reference on a bullet point

External Links

Again, put each link on a bullet point

Finally, the first usage of the title of your article is always in bold, like this:

The Toy Fox Terrier is a (etc.)

I know from experience the Wikipedia tags and layout can be horrendously complicated at first - I hope you've enjoyed working on articles, as your writing is very good. I've "wikified" (formatting an exisiting article to Wikipedia standards) your Toy Fox Terrier article for you to give you some idea of layout. Enjoy writing! Nick04 13:24, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback - your articles are interesting, and I hope you enjoy Wikipedia. I'm sure I'll see you around Nick04 17:37, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Dog breeds etc.

Just wanted to say "hear hear" for the responses to you on the List of dog breeds talk page. Edit away! I know some things about dogs, hang out with lots of other people who own various breeds, and have lots of reference material, but I don't know everything and, like Sannse, I have most of the dog pages on my watchlist so they pop up if edits have been made, even the new ones (if they're already listed on the List page). Go for it! All articles! There's really no such thing as an "author" of any particular article, although sometimes if I notice that an article has been largely created or nursed along by a certain person, I might leave a note on their user talk page if I do something really drastic. But mostly I don't. Welcome indeed, there are SO many dog breeds and pages that exist and don't exist and need work. Elf | Talk 20:18, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Dog questions

It's sometimes hard at first to figure out which talk page to put questions on when there are a lot of related pages. I still sometimes get confused when I'm looking at Mediawiki pages--but that's a whole 'nuther topic. :-) If you have a question that probably applies to multiple dog-related pages or to how to put together a breed page, probably Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dog breeds is the best place. If you have a question about a specific dog article, the talk page for that article is the best place. Likewise, if you have a question about how the list of dog breeds is organized or why certain naming conventions were used in that list, its talk page is probably the best place. The goal is to keep questions as closely located as possible to the topic they most directly apply to. You might want to add a least the project page and the list of breeds page to your watchlist, then you also can easily see when anything comes up there. Hope this helps. Elf | Talk 20:41, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)