User talk:Loulou43

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 * President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 16:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Welcome and policies
Welcome to Star Wars Fanon, Loulou43! My name is Brandon Rhea and I'm an Administrator here, so I want to take a few moments to point out a few things. First, please be sure to read over and become familiar with all of the Policies on Star Wars Fanon. This is especially important as you've already broken a few, but I'll let you know which ones those are so you can easily fix them up to standards and avoid any future bans that are spoken about in our Blocking Policy.

The first is the Manual of Style. Looking at your article Grand Empire (I moved it to that title so it would be properly categorized), there are quite a few things wrong. The most glaring one is that it’s not really written with a standard of quality. That’s nothing against the content of the article since the content seems fine, but it’s basically the way it’s written. The article needs to be rewritten with proper grammar, capitalization and every other basic standard of grammar. You should also come up with shorter names for the section headers. Please do this as soon as you have the time.

Also in the Manual of Style, there is the issue of tense. What I mean by this is present tense vs. past tense. A great deal of the article is written in the present tense, using things like “The Grand Empire is” or “the people are born with” as if this is going on now, which it’s not. This is a fan fiction wiki for Star Wars, which takes “a long time ago”. Please be sure to rewrite this article into the past tense as soon as you get the chance.

Moving on to the second policy, I bring you to the Categorization Policy. As it says, all articles need a legitimate in-universe category found in Special:Categories upon creation. Because it does not, you will have twenty-four hours from the time I post this message to categorize the article or it will be deleted, per the policy. We don’t want this to happen since you’ve obviously put a great deal of work into this, so please do this immediately.

Finally, there is the Image Policy. Please read this and properly source your images within twenty-four hours or they too will be deleted. This is very important as it deals with United States Copyright Law, so your images cannot go unsourced. If you have any questions about this one, please let me know.

Anyway, sorry this was so long, but there was a lot to cover. If you have any questions about any of this, please let me know. Once again, welcome! - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom) (Record) 16:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)