User talk:Skywalker123

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 * President Brandon Rhea  [[Image:Presidentialseal.gif|27px]] (Pressroom) (Record) 18:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Policies
Welcome to Star Wars Fanon, Skywalker123! Before making any further contributions, you must read over and become familiar with all of the Policies on Star Wars Fanon. These are all very important, especially the ones linked to in the above welcome message, and they are especially important right now because you've broken a few policies, telling me that you didn't read them when you first arrived. That's okay, but I'm going to explain a few things to you now and you're going to have to read all of the policies. I know some are long and I know there's a lot, but taking twenty minutes to read them and become familiar with them is better then getting a ban somewhere down the line for not following them.

The first I want to tell you about is the Manual of Style. The articles you've made so far are all written in the present tense, which is forbidden. This is an encyclopedia meant to document things that happened "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and because it was a long time ago, saying something like "Bob is awesome", for example, would not be appropriate. You would want to say "Bob was awesome" or something else of the sort in the past tense. Because your articles are short, I've fixed this for you but in the future I will not do so, so please be sure to write all of your articles completely in the past tense in the future.

The second I want to tell you about is the Categorization Policy. As it states, all articles must be in a legitimate category upon creation. These categories can be found at Special:Categories. However, articles such as "Articles by Skywalker123" or "Articles being improved" do not count, nor do categories that are red links because you must use an already active category. The category must be something in-universe such as [[:Category:Jedi Masters]] or [[:Category:Dark Lord of the Sith]]. Please look through that list and select the most appropriate categories. Then place them at the bottom of your article in the way that the Categorization Policy states within twenty-four hours or the articles will, unfortunately, be deleted. Nobody wants that to happen, so please be sure to follow the policy.

Before I go, I just want to make sure you read the Image Policy before uploading any images. That policy deals with United States Copyright Law so it's very important that you follow it to the letter. If you have any questions about that, any of the other policies or anything I just said above, please let me know and I'll be happy to answer them. Once again, welcome to Star Wars Fanon, and we hope you enjoy your time here! - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom) (Record) 18:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)