User talk:Georgetowntolondon

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Hi Georgetowntolondon,

Thanks for being part of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative! I'm LiAnna Davis, the communications associate for the Initiative, and I wanted to let you know that we have a Facebook page, facebook.com/WikipediaOnCampus designed to keep students like you up to date on the latest news, events, photos, videos, and hints to help you edit. If you're on Facebook, please check it out!

Happy editing! -- Ldavis (Public Policy) (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mentors, and online ambassadors

hey. There's an Online Ambassador program etc., and it has a list of mentors. I'm sure some of them will check in to offer their services. Ping me or any one of them for any kind of advice or help. • Ling.Nut 02:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

October 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Best Buddies Georgetown, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Best Buddies Georgetown was changed by Georgetowntolondon (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2010-10-21T18:49:06+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re Best Buddies Georgetown - it's not enough that it's part of a notable larger organization. You need to supply reliable independent sources to show that *this chapter* is itself notable per WP:ORG before giving it a stand-alone article. NawlinWiki (talk) 18:51, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Best buddies image.jpeg

Thank you for uploading File:Best buddies image.jpeg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, fellow Londoner

Hi, Hannah; Rochelle posted a note on the USPP mailing list and I thought I'd take a look at the Best Buddies International and see if I can help. I'll post some comments over there on the talk page; you can reply there or here, but there might be better because then other people working on the article can see the conversation. If you have any other questions, leave me a note on my talk page and I'll be glad to help. Mike Christie (talk) 00:49, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just posted a note over there -- I'm afraid it looks to me as if it will be difficult to use the material you created. The problem is we don't have any reliable independent sources giving the details you provide -- it's not that it's inaccurate, just that we need good sources. If you're not clear what the problem is, let me know and I'm happy to help; if you can find more sources either about the organization or the Georgetown chapter I'll be happy to help work the material into the article. Mike Christie (talk) 01:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYKing your article

This article should be eligible for appearing on the main page as a "Did you know" entry, if it is nominated it soon; it is supposed to be nominated within 5 days of being created or significantly (5x) expanded.

The instructions for nominating it are at Template talk:Did you know. Basically, all you need to do is take this code:

{{subst:NewDYKnom| article= | hook=... that ? | status=new | author=  }}

and write the hook, a concise and interesting bit of info from the article beginning with "... that" and ending with a question mark. The info from the hook has to be present in the article and supported (in the article) with a citation. Someone will double-check to make sure the source says what it's claimed to say.

Once you've come up with a hook, fill in your username as the author and fill the title of the article, then add the above code, including your hook following the "hook=" part, to the top of the appropriate section for the day the article was started on the DYK template talk page. The code will produce an entry formatted like the others. After that, just keep an eye on the entry; if anyone brings up an issue with it, try to address it. I'll keep an eye out as well. If everything goes well, it will appear on the Main Page for several hours a few days from now.

--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]