User talk:Whiteflame

Hi there and welcome to Shifti! You may notice the admins like myself doing a little housekeeping. I've added a few things to your poetry posts. There is a [[Category:Poem]] that will fit your works better. --Buck 15:52, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Also, you may have noticed that I reformatted your poems a bit; there's "<poem></poem>" tags you can wrap around text to prevent line breaks from being ignored as happens with regular wikitext formatting. And I've added you to the author usergroup so that you can protect your pages from editing by others if you choose. Bryan 16:12, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction! I plan on adding a whole bunch more poems and reorganizing my page a bit to accommodate them. On another note, I was wondering if the poems that I have posted are currently protected, being on my user page. Whiteflame 18:27, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Stories are not typically protected from others unless two things happen. 1) It can be protected using the "Protect" tab on the top of the page. 2) It's put in your userspace. The way you've posted them right now, they're in the normal space. If you wish to keep them in your own user space in the future, use this as a model: [[User:Whiteflame/Poem Title]]. Otherwise, just click "protect". As an Author here you have that ability as well. --Buck 18:40, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Just to clarify, anything in your own userspace, only you and the site administrators can edit. It's thus not necessary to protect your own user page. But if you create anything without the model I used above, it'll end up in the "main namespace" of the site and thus be editable by anybody. Creating a link [[that looks like this]] will put it into the main namepace. [[User:Username/Like This]] will put it into a specific user's own namespace. --Buck 19:24, 24 December 2007 (EST)

That makes much more sense now. I am convinced that my ineptness with electronics will one day get the better of me. :-) Whiteflame 19:30, 24 December 2007 (EST)

No worries, you've got a couple of experienced admins standing by to help out. Learning by doing is a good approach to wikis since it's easy to clean up if things go wrong; there's nothing you can break that we can't fix. :) Bryan 19:57, 24 December 2007 (EST)