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Hello, Jim Wade, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Redvers, one of the thousands of editors here at Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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{{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Notworking
editYou need to remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If you're creating a dictionary definition, you probably want Wiktionary, our sister project that is building the free dictionary that anyone can edit. For that reason, we also don't accept neologisms (new words, recently created words, words someone just made up).
How about this as a compromise? Create your page at User:Jim Wade/Notworking and then ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page to see if it fits with our standards? The people there will give you useful advice, copyedit and wikify the article and help you choose whether it's a neologism that needs to go to Wiktionary or a genuine new encyclopedic notable phenomenon that needs recording here. ➨ ≡ЯΞDVΞRS≡ 20:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
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editJim, Thanks for taking the time to leave a note on my talk page. I hope you have a fuller understanding now that the deletion process isn't arbitrary or personal. It serves an important purpose in maintaining the accuracy of Wikipedia. Please try to understand that the folks you came into contact with care about the project and we run across a lot of new users who try to harm the project instead of helping it. Some folks may have misunderstood your intentions. I hope that your experience hasn't soured you on Wikipedia. We'd like you to stay and make contributions. See you around. Regards, Accurizer 23:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
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editHi. Quick point regarding the "rv", just so you know for future reference. rv to Jim Wade, traditionally we don't censor talk pages or edit one another's comments on talk
- rv = revert
- rvv = revert vandalism (also used a lot)
- rv to Jim Wade = reverting to last good version which is Jim Wade's
I wasn't saying you did anything wrong rather I was asserting your version was the last good one. BTW you seem to be interested in helping the articles along. You may want to take a look at my comment in the archive. There are deep structural problem with the articles that I think you could work to address. jbolden1517Talk 18:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)