User talk:Abyssal

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Hello Abyssal! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

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• NPOV → be fair (not quite the same thing!)
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It may also be very useful for you to check out Wikivoyage:Welcome, Wikipedians. If you need help, take a look at Wikivoyage:Help, or else post a message in the travellers' pub or on my talk page. Thanks for contributing! -- Ryan • (talk) • 06:32, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

An award for you!

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	Thanks for your careful work drafting your West Virginia fossil collecting guide! I saw your post on the Traveller's pub and so went to read it. I love the idea and think it could be really useful especially for a field with (relatively) less public information gathered around online. Jamesofur (talk) 05:06, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Skeleton articles

First, thanks for adding fossil information to articles. A couple of points that you may or may not have already seen:

• Per WV:What is an article?, very small places usually are not given their own article - instead the info is added to an appropriate region article, a neighboring town article, or a group article like Rural Montgomery County is created. Many of the articles just created may be too small to warrant a standalone article (looking at w:Upper Tract, West Virginia, it is an unincorporated community).
• Per WV:Naming conventions, if there is only one place with a given name then you can leave off the state disambiguator, so just "Place Name" instead of "Place Name (State)".
• When creating new articles, be sure to change "is in Region Name" in the skeleton template to the actual parent region, and also populate the "isPartOf" template in the skeleton so that the breadcrumb trail is created. Ideally, adding a link to Wikipedia helps out as well.

You may already be planning on addressing the above, but I wanted to bring it up before you created too many more skeletons. -- Ryan • (talk) • 20:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

It appears more than one person had the same idea at the same time. Yours is probably more helpful though ;-) Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:03, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Abyssal - Hopefully the above comments didn't scare you off. Usually if someone just creates one or two skeletons it's easy for others to make any updates necessary, but typically when someone is creating a lot of skeletons it's best to ping them early on in the process to potentially avert a lot of future cleanup. If you have any questions or concerns please ask, and I'm sure others will be happy to help out. -- Ryan • (talk) • 21:30, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Creation of pages for (possibly) very small places

Hi. First of all thanks for your good work on the fossil collecting issue. Secondly: While WP does have an article for every place that appears in the United States Census, here at WV we cover some places not under their own name, but as part of a larger region or the next adjacent city, no matter what the administrative boundaries may say (we also in fact do the opposite as with the Islas Solentiname that are administratively part of San Carlos (Nicaragua)). We are currently having some trouble with a number of small and tiny destinations that consist of nothing more than an empty skeleton and will likely never get much information. Now I do know your edits were made in good faith and I do think that the majority of your page creations do deserve an article, but maybe not all of them do. I am however no expert on West Virginia so I could be entirely wrong. Best wishes and keep up the good work Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:00, 22 June 2015 (UTC)