User_talk: aj 

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Greetings,

I noticed that you have been uploading photos to wikiHow. Adding photos to articles is one of the best ways to help our free how-to instructions become more understandable for our readers. Thank you.

Unfortunately, it appears that some of the photos you have uploaded are not properly licensed. Don't despair though, I can help you fix this.

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In the future, you can easily find freely licensed photos by following these easy instructions to find photos right here on wikiHow. Although this may sound confusing, it will make more sense with time. Please stick with us and don't give up! In the meantime, feel free to ask me, anyone on the help team, or one of our administrators if you have any questions. Thanks again for contributing to wikiHow. You need to provide a license for the images.

THat sonic pen trick looks awesome. thanks for adding the photos and all.

I did look at it now, and I agree it is coming along great. You will be creating a very nice article, but the problem is, that once a tag is on you cannot just remove it. The pictures you are adding make the article so much better. This might even become a Featured ARticle.;)

The proper procedure, when you see NFD on an article, is to post on the discussion page, that you are in the middle of creating this article, and that you would like the nfd tag removed.

May I make a suggestion, that I am certain you were not aware of. Whenever you start any article, place an inuse tag on it. Then no one will touch it, knowing that you are in the middle of creating an article. Just use this {{ }} and in the center type inuse.

I look forward to seeing the completed article.;) and if you ever need any assistance please do not hesitate to ask me. I am always pleased to help others.

Hi AJ,

I've fixed the title on your Do a Sonic Pen Trick [the first being "Do a sonic pen trick.]. If you need to edit it, you can do so from there.

Thanks a bunch for the article. I've wanted to learn how to do that.

you wrote:

   * (From www.Pentrix.com)

I do not understand your question. I explained to you what had happened, by accident.;)

Looks like someone just capitalized the title http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Sonic-Pen-Trick

It's not a bad start. Although, you might want to read up on the Writer's Guide, just to understand the desired format for wikiHow articles and what not -- specifically, in reference to the way that you begin steps.

I gave the fire article a quick skim. It looks good, but I'll have to go back later and read to give you better feedback. One quick thing I can offer is that you need to provide the attribution URL of your images. If you are taking the images from Wikipedia which is fine, use the GFDL license as you did , but also put a link back to the URL on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons where you found the image. If on the other hand you found the images on a Google image search, we will need to delete them since they won't fit our free license requirements.

This is probably confusing. :) More info on how to Find Free Images on wikiHow.

If you open an article in Advanced Mode, that'll do away with the problem of adding extra numbered lines to the article — assuming that that's what you mean.

It seems like that you have a relatively decent idea of the wiki formatting, but in case that you haven't looked away, the Editing Help Page has a couple of tricks that you can mess around with.

will take a look

OK, great. So when you get the photos from one of those royalty free photo sites, be sure to list the URL in the image description area. That way others can confirm the images are free and no one will delete the images by mistake.

I understand that you want to promote an article, but posting multiple times on users talk pages is spam. Please avoid asking users to look at a page unless you have questions or need help with it. Or of course if you think it could help them.

If you want to promote an article, you can put a link to it on your author page and a note saying why you think is a good article. If you need any help doing this let me know.

your article is great, but you need to remove the caps and check the grammar in step one.

It doesn't look like much needs to be done with it actually. It's in pretty good shape as far as preparedness for FA status.

Personally, I noticed a lot of repetition of the word "place" at the beginning of steps. Also I don't know if it reads well to start off step 3 with the word "important". Finally, there are no external links and most FAs benefit from those

Hi AJ,

I did some formatting and copyediting on the page about doing a sonic pen trick (Do a Sonic Pen Trick). It looks good! The only part that's confusing is in what is now the second step, where it says to "Place enough upward tension with the thumb to hold it tightly..." but the picture doesn't show the thumb actually applying tension on the pen. In fact, that picture looks almost exactly like the first, so it might be hard for the readers to follow along if they want a visual reference for the second step. I hope this feedback helps! =)

nice welcome template

Hey there,

I see you have been doing lots of editing around wikiHow today. All fantastic! Everything I saw looked great, but one tip I wanted to offer was that ideally all of our steps should start with action verbs. It isn't a hard and fast rule, but it is a best practice. Check the Writer's Guide for more info on the formet. Anyway, your edits here have been great, I can see that you are going to be a real good contributor here.  :)

Welcome.

Hi Aj

I’ve edited you welcome template a bit. You can see all my changes here If you don’t like the changes you can click rollback and it will undo all of them.

I’ve also fixed the link to your template on you user page because it was broken. On your user page you have used external style links (that’s why they have the blue arrow next to them).

The code for an external link is [http://www.wikihow.com WikiHow] The whole address and the text is separated by a space

The code for an internal link to an article is [[Writers Guide]] Just the title without “How to”. Make how the caps are correct.

The code for an internal link to another wikiHow page is [[:User_talk: Ajindustires|AJ’s Talk Page]] Notice the extra : in front and the text is separated by a |

I hope that makes sense. Leave me a message if you need any help

Greetings,

I see you have been welcoming new users. This is great, but you need to know when to welcome and when to warn, or more specifically, when to place a name violation template.

What you should do is:

1. Read this article, to learn how to welcome new users.
2. Before applying a welcome template look at the username (this appears as the name in the log, and in the adress bar). If it is in violation of the username policy then you should place a username template, which is made as follows: {{username}}, instead of a welcome message.
3. If the username does not violate the policy, check the real name (what you see in bold at the top of the userpage). If it is in violation of the username policy apply the real name template, which is made as follows: {{realname}} or {{nickname}}
4. If the username and real name both do not violate the username policy proceed to apply the welcome template.

Thank you.

Great work on all your efforts here. You have been doing a great job and your articles are both informative and well done.

I noticed in your article about Fires, that you have used all caps. May I point out that according to our writing guide, the best writing excludes ALL CAPS, instant messenger language abbreviations (R U OK?), emoticons :) , or excessive punctuation!!!!

Keep up the good work, it takes time to learn the differences between wikipedia and wikiHow, but you are well on your way and the Writers Guide might be of help to you.

http://www.wikihow.com/Writer's-Guide?section=2#Summary

Do-a-Sonic-Pen-Trick

While your articles have been just great, I thought I would just take a minute to make you aware of the fact,that it is not proper, nor necessary to send each editor a note, asking each of them to check an article you have written. Once you finish it, everyone can see and edit it and do.;).:)

There are some differences between wikiHow and wikipedia that you may not as yet be aware of. Possibly this is one of them.

I noticed you had asked if you were allow to just revert a discussion page due to swearing.

This is the ruling on discussion page reverts, and the only reasons that any discussion page should be reverted. Since you are new, I figured you did not know this.;)

on discussion pages.. only gratuitous vulgarity & personal attacks should be removed.

Hi AJ.....

AJ,

Hey there. How goes? Very nice to see you welcoming so many here.

I rolled you back here:

http://www.wikihow.com/User_talk:Esquilo-Cinza

You improperly welcomed a user whose real name is not appropriate. Have you familiarized yourself thoroughly with our welcoming instructions here?

http://www.wikihow.com/Welcome-Wikihow-Users

and the Username Policy?

I have rolled back your welcome here, because you applied to a user who had already been welcomed, and then had been blocked. I am not sure it makes sense to welcome a known trouble maker.......let me know your thoughts on this. I can be flexible on these things. Sometimes there is a good reason.......

I have rolled back your welcome here due to the same real name problem mentioned above:

Thanks very much, wikiHow is on my google desktop, so I check the site daily, but I'm always checking the wikiHow of the day which sometimes spurs me to think of related wikiHows that should be written.

If there is something I find I can contribute to, I will. Until then, I should really be doing my Psychology Methods research project.

Peace,

AJ,

Right on AJ. Congrats on getting that permission! The page looks great.

Best,