User talk:Satiricallylyrical
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Satiricallylyrical! I am Verbal and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Hi. I notice you've been removing links to uncreated pages. These links are placed there as a first step to creating a page -- in fact this is a very common way to get pages started; either as a first step to creating the page oneself, or as an invitation to others to create it. About the only reason to unlinkify text is if you have a pretty strong conviction that the subject does not merit a page, and unless it's blindingly obvious (which it isn't, in the case of, for example Spike Milligan's Q5, or Eleanor Bron's books), you should probably make the case for why the page shouldn't exist on the talk page where you're doing the edit. But the fact that the page doesn't exist does not, in wiki terms, constitute a mistaken link, it's actually one of the main ways pages get created. P.T.isfirst (talk) 07:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)