User talk:Sid.young

Welcome

Hello, Sid.young! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Triwbe (talk) 13:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

July 2008

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you've been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as the edit you made to Kawasaki GPZ1100B1/B2. This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thanks for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. Triwbe (talk) 13:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Kawasaki GPZ1100B1/B2. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Triwbe (talk) 13:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

December 2010

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to GPz1100. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.  Chzz  ►  02:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Kawasaki GPZ1100B1/B2. Alansohn (talk) 02:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

GPz1100B2

This is an automated message from VWBot. I have performed a search with the contents of GPz1100B2, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Kawasaki GPZ1100B1/B2. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. VWBot (talk) 03:20, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

GPZ1100

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Motorcycling Wikiproject

Welcome to the Motorcycling WikiProject. Hopefully you have a good time, start many new articles and can contribute lots to the existing ones as we need that. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 04:41, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks I have written some pages but the new ones are deleted as soon as I save them.. tried to sandbox one but it was removed almost instantly by someone! --Sid.young (talk) 04:48, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Welcome - a few pointers

Welcome to the project. If you don't mind I would like to give you a few pointers.

• Your articles need to have more conventional introductions - see what I have done to Kawasaki GPZ1100, for example, with bold text for the subject of the article. There is no need for an introduction section - the introductory paragraph, known as the "lead" in Wikispeak, should stand alone with no section heading.
• You should read WP:MOSNUM which is the manual of style for numbers. Numbers under 10 are generally written (except in infoboxes) so, for example, you would have a four-cylinder engine not a 4-cylinder engine. Numbers over 999 should always have a comma e.g. 1,000. Units of measure should always be separated using a non-breaking space e.g. 1,098 cc
• It really helps if you give metric/imperial conversions. The {{convert}} template helps with this and conveniently does the number formatting (commas and non-breaking spaces) for you.
• Article names for bikes should included the manufacturer. e.g. Kawasaki GPZ1100. You can use the "Move" function to rename an article - or shout if you need help.
• Avoid external links which could be considered spam e.g. companies selling parts for bikes - even if they have a page containing what you perceive to be useful information. WP:ELNO is a good set of guidlines on which links should be avoided.
• Don't use HTML formatting e.g. <br> in the body of an article. You don't need to insert blank lines in a section - let the system take care of the blank lines before and after a section heading.

You are doing some good work and I would be very happy to give you any help you may need. --Biker Biker (talk) 08:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Combining articles

Given the similarity between the B1 and B2 models, I didn't see the need for three separate articles i.e. B1/B2, B1 and B2, so I have redirected the B1 and B2 articles to the combined one. Obviously if there is anything that has been lost you can go back to the version history of the B1 or B2 articles and copy/past across to the combined one. Once again, if there is anything that I can help you with don't hesitate to ask. it is good to have a new editor who is so keen on producing bike articles. --Biker Biker (talk) 08:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

External links

Hi. Please note that adding links to your own websites or blogs is borderline self-promotion. And certainly don't mark those edits as "minor". -- intgr [talk] 01:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup

Hi there! We are organising a meetup on Saturday August 22 at 11am at the SLQ Café in South Brisbane, and we'd love for you to come along. A list of people interested in coming, and a discussion space has been created at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/8. Hope to see you there! Kerry (talk) 02:00, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup

Come along! Kerry (talk) 04:11, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

	Brisbane Meetup Next: To be decided (watch) Last: Saturday 13 January 2018
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

Brisbane meetup - Sunday 10 December 2017 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland

If you are in or near Brisbane, please join us on Sunday 10 December 2017 any time from noon to 4pm at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland. For more details and to sign up, please go to the meetup page. See you there! Kerry (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup: Saturday 13 January 2018 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland

	Brisbane Meetup Next: To be decided (watch) Last: Saturday 13 January 2018
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

If you are in or near Brisbane, please join us on Saturday 13 January 2018 any time from noon to 4pm at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland. For more details and to sign up, please go to the meetup page. See you there! Kerry (talk) 05:44, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kerry I will see how I go for time.. lot son in January! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.177.169.159 (talk) 07:12, 31 December 2017 (UTC)