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Thanks for your recent edits! I'm Jimbo, your robot wiki representative! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is actually a great time to have joined, because we're now fully independent, and working on a host of new features!

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Your created page

Thank you for your page creating EastEnders actress, Nina Wadia. I will add a picture and a template to your new page. User:Trikster87, 19:05, 5th April 2010, (UTC)

Actors pages

Thank you very much for your efforts to create pages for several Doctor Who guest actors. There are a few things your pages lack that would help them be even more useful. Overall, I would encourage you to read our Manual of style at some point in the near future. It'll give you some pointers about how to format articles. However, here are some key things that you might want to keep in mind for the future.

• All actor pages should be flagged as an "article about the real world", the name of the person must be bolded, and you should link as many words as can be linked to articles on this wiki. So, the article Tom Hopper should begin:

{{real world}}'''Tom Hopper''' in an [[English]] actor who . . .

• All pages, related to actors or not, should be put into a category when the article is first created. This can be accomplished several ways, but the easiest is just to click "Add category" and start typing. The software will match your text as you type it, so you don't even have to type out the whole category. The category for Doctor Who guest actors is exactly that: Doctor Who guest actors. By the time you've typed "Doctor Who g", the software will already be presenting you with that category, so click on its suggestion, press enter, and you're done.
• All articles about people should ideally be sorted in categories by the last name of the person. The recommended way of making this happen is to use a thing called "DEFAULTSORT". Add the following to the bottom of your articles, and the system will tidy away the article without you having to think about it:

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopper, Tom}}

Thanks again for your edits, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them either directly of me, or on Forum:Panopticon. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 19:37, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion

Removing the proposed deletion template from a page goes against the rules and terms of the wiki. The purpose is for all known members to discuss whether the page is to stay or be removed. If you feel strongly why this page should stay then please use the talk page and argue against the deletion template. If you continue with removing the template without discussing it could result in you incurring a minimum ban of 2 weeks. Thanks -- Michael Downey 14:44, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry! I didn't know! Boffinboy77 14:49, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:21: Tue 20 Dec 2011 

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:23: Thu 22 Dec 2011 

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