Hello Patricknoddy and welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like it here, and stick around.
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Good luck!
Rod Blagojevich
Two problems with your latest edit. First of all, that material is copyrighted, and illegal to post here; see Wikipedia:Copyrights for more info. Second, the material is not neutral; we try to follow a neutral point of view policy. Please don't add in material like this in the future. Of course, if you'd like to add to the Blagojevich article with your own writing, that would be fine. Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:24, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Copyright violations
You must stop adding these copyright violations. Please stop immediately. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:33, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Your contribution at New Jersey State Capitol is also copyrighted.
Welcome to Wikipedia, and we hope you will continue to contribute. All sorts of input are welcome. However we have to say very clearly that submitting copyright work is illegal!. If we do not stop it, Wikipedia may be shut down, and potentially anyone submitting such material may be sued.
In case you are not familiar with the rules, here is a brief summary. All text and pictures are potentially copyright - that means books, newspapers and stuff on the web. It also means images. Everything is copyrighted unless the author explicitly says it is not. Unless a web page says it is public domain, (or explicitly licensed for use under the GNU Free Documentation License or something very similar) we cannot use it. Note that 'free for non-commerical use is not good enough - Wikipedia might be used commercially.
Because of the potentially serious consequences of copyright violation we will have to stop you if you continute to add illegal articles. If you don't understand please ask someone at Wikipedia:Help desk.
Thanks. DJ Clayworth 15:03, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Patrick - please don't blank articles that have been listed for copyright violation. We need to give people a chance to object, and then the entire history will be deleted. In the meantime people who find a blank article will not know that it is scheduled for deletion, and will add text to it. They will then be upset when it is deleted.
If you wish to agree that they should be deleted, say so on the talk page. DJ Clayworth 21:53, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
If you blank articles that are not copyright violations, that is considered vandalism. Please stop. DJ Clayworth 21:55, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Second Grader
Patrick:
Hi again, and welcome to Wikipedia. We don't get many second graders here - how old are you? (You can add things yourself to this page)
I'm glad to see you've stopped copying articles from other parts of the web - we are really looking for people to write new things. You may want to look at this link here [1] - this is another encyclopedia just like Wikipedia, but written in simple language for people learning English. It really needs people to write new articles.
If you keep contributing here, I suggest you ask questions here Wikipedia:Help desk before anything you don't understand. When you ask say you are in second grade - you'll get better help. Have fun DJ Clayworth 13:39, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Tips
Hi Patrick,
I'm the guy who emailed you before. I'd just like give you a few tips. When you create a list, you should use bullets. Right now, your lists look like this:
User:Chrisn4255 User:Patricknoddy User talk:Chrisn4255
Lists that have bullets look like this:
To make a list with bullets, type them this way:
*[[User:Chrisn4255]]
*[[User:Patricknoddy]]
*[[User talk:Chrisn4255]]
My other tip is about short articles. When you write a short article (like one or two sentences), go to the bottom, and type:
{{stub}}
At the bottom of the article people will see:
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This will tell them to write more about the article (if they know anything more about it).
I hope this helps.
Like DJ Clayworth said: you might want to go to http://simple.wikipedia.orgbecause it's a lot like Wikipedia, but it's written with small words, and it really needs people to write new articles. If you stay with us here, then ask questions at Wikipedia:Help desk before doing anything you don't know about. When you ask, say you are in second grade - you'll get better help.
Feel free to ask me hereif you have a question, or if you want me look at an article (I like politics and history, too!). Chris N. 01:39, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why were you making a list of companies on wikipedia:Article of the week? That is not what that page is there for. I have reverted your changes. Thue | talk 16:45, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Heirs Apparent
I've moved your page to a more grammatically correct title. Mike H 02:25, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
Airport articles
I don't think anyone has really explained what the problem with your airport articles was - or why I've just had to delete them.
Nearly everything on the internet belongs to someone - if a company puts information on their web site they own that information. This means that we cannot use their writing on wikipedia - it is what's described as under copyright. Generally Wikipedia can only accept writing that is done for Wikipedia - there are a few exceptions (ask me if you are interested). Taking writing from other websites isn't allowed. Please don't be put off - you are very welcome here - and I personally am very happy that a second grader is helping to make this encyclopedia. If you have any questions please leave me a message and I will do my best to help. Yours Secretlondon 01:48, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Good job
Good job on catching that vandalism in the article 1908. Nobody caught that for 11 months! Chris N. 00:47, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I and V
Hi Patrick, I've taken the liberty of removing the links on I and V to the pages I (disambiguation) and V (disambiguation), respectively, for now. The main reason is that for the entire alphabet, the meanings of the letter are included on the main page, since the articles are short enough. Maybe in the future if more is written, it might change, but for now it should be left as it is. (Although feel free to add to the articles if there is anything missing). Happy wiki-ing —siroχo 04:31, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)