Welcome to Memory Alpha, Sentrydogman! I've noticed that you've already made some contributions to our database – thanks for your edit to the "File:The Secret of the Guardian's Longevity.jpg" page! We all hope that you'll enjoy our activities here and decide to join our community.
If you'd like to learn more about working with the nuts and bolts of Memory Alpha, I have a few links that you might want to check out:
- Our policies and guidelines provides links to inform you on what is appropriate for Memory Alpha and what is not. Particular items of note are the canon policy, the editing guidelines, our point of view, copyrights and guidelines for proper etiquette.
- How to edit a page includes a basic tutorial about how to use our special wikitext code here on Memory Alpha.
- Naming conventions provides guidelines on how to name a new page that you may want to create.
- The Manual of Style is an overview of the basic guidelines for how to format and style your articles.
- How to write a great article is a list of suggestions that can help you put together an article that might end up on our Featured Articles list someday.
- See the user projects page for current projects of our archivists, or help us to reduce the number of stubs.
- Look up past changes you have made in your contributions log.
- Keep track of your favorite Memory Alpha articles through your very own watchlist.
- Create your own user page and be contacted on this page, your talk page.
One other suggestion: if you're going to make comments on talk pages or make other sorts of comments, please be sure to sign them with four tildes (~~~~) to paste in your user name and the date/time of the comment.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in our Ten Forward community page. Thanks, and once again, welcome to Memory Alpha! -- ThomasHL (Talk) 22:33, 28 September 2012
- The above named user is the most currently available administrator to contribute to Memory Alpha; their signature was automatically added by User:Wikia. If you have any immediate questions or concerns, you may contact that user through their talk page.
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Please take a moment to read the image use policy. All images uploaded to MA need a proper image licensing template as well as citations. Images without an image licensing template or citation will be removed from articles and are subject to deletion. If you have any questions about how to add the requirements or why this needs to be done, feel free to ask. 31dot (talk) 01:32, September 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Please don't upload "fan art" or similar images (like this one or this one), especially for use on encyclopedic entries. Thanks. - Aatrek 17:27, October 10, 2012 (UTC)
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Please note the comments immediately above this. If this behaviour continues, a brief block may be instituted until you have read and acknowledged what has been told to you. -- sulfur (talk) 17:59, October 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Sentrydogman, are you even reading this? - Aatrek 12:16, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
As per this note, please respond here to acknowledge what you have been told, and your block will be lifted. -- sulfur (talk) 12:53, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
You were previously asked not to upload fanon-created images (even if they're text on a proper image). You've done it again. Please cease. -- sulfur (talk) 16:45, February 5, 2013 (UTC)
- I have blocked you for your latest upload which failed to heed the instructions given to you above. If you post here that you have read and understand what is on this page, I will lift the block; however if you continue to upload images improperly. the blocks will get longer. 31dot (talk) 14:54, February 15, 2013 (UTC)