User talk:Jim Hanson

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Good luck! --Derbeth talk 00:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Page naming
Can you read Naming policy? Thanks. --Derbeth talk 00:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Did you read Naming policy like Derbeth asked? You are creating pages in the wrong place.


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Packing & Moving Household Goods
I want to mention that I just got through reading Packing & Moving Household Goods/Introduction.

Wow!

This is an excellent title for a book, and it looks like you've put quite a bit of effort into putting this whole thing together. If you want to add a little spash to your book, you might want to check out the Wikimedia Commons for some images. With over 500,000 images there, you should be able to find something that you could use. Images can be added in the following format:   

Here are a couple of images that you can use right now. Just hit the edit button on this page to see the image links, or click on the images themselves to find the names of the images.

BTW, that car image was from http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive/photo172.htm

Read the caption on that... it is funny as heck. More of what not to do in this situation of do-it-yourself moving. --Rob Horning 17:42, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Redirected pages
There is a process here on Wikibooks to deal with redirecting pages to where you have moved content to, if there are external links pointing to Wikibooks on one page but the content really is somewhere else.

Just try not to abuse this situation. Instead, you should try to catalog your book and see if other people are willing to help with developing this content by bringing it up in the Staff Lounge, various mailing lists for Wikibooks and other Wikimedia projects, or finding similar books or Wikipedia articles and trying to content people who have helped edit that content. Or even find other internet discussion groups that might be talking about the subject you are writing about.

The content search system is indeed broken on Wikibooks, and that is something that I'm trying to work on as a "hobby" project right now. Unfortunately the plethora of pages you have just added is going to just make things worse, not better, for the current systems we have in place. --Rob Horning 17:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)