User talk:Frawan
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Your posts
Welcome to the English-language Metapedia. It is important for you to examine some of the various posts and to use the correct formats. In addition you must provide proper and credible sources. Take a look at Treaty of Versailles. Here you will get some ideas on layouts etc, sources and categories. Don't just start a page with a single line and leave it for others to do the work, as in White Lives Matter. I would also point out that contrary to what the Far-Left say about Metapedia, we are not a National Socialist site. Anything we post on this period is for historical purposes, not promotion. Thanks. Matt58 (talk) 11:55, 27 December 2023 (UTC) --Ratatosk 14:55, 4 November 2007 (CET)
Commentaries
This is an encyclopedia not a journal or online publication. If others agree, I think we will have to take down your commentaries. NatAll75 01:47, 6 November 2007 (CET)
And which commentaries are you refering to? Do you mean the articles that I have posted? I think there should be room for material that is not easily available elsewhere and that includes written articles and galleries of material not available elsewere. Wikipedia also has a "http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page" with sources, and since I dont think metapedia is big enough to make a metasource I would like the permission to continue.
But please let me know now before I spend any more time adding stuff that will be deleted in the end Frawan 08:25, 6 November 2007 (CET)
I can add that I suggest that we implement a new templace.. F.e.x called Source:xxx where we simply can add sources as Source:Articlename - so that it does not get mixed up with regular entries? Frawan 14:10, 6 November 2007 (CET)
