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Welcome to Wikipedia, Arrowhead! You've got a nice start at Apismellifera. I thought I'd point out to you, though, that there's already an article about the honeybee, which you are welcome to contribute to. Our general policy is to have the article about animals under their common name rather than their scientific classification. Of course, it's hard to find all of these policies when you're eager to get started writing an article! The Apismellifera page will probably be changed into a redirect to honeybee in a day or so, and I don't want you to get discouraged -- we need all the help we can get!

Please check out the help pages mentioned above if you're curious or confused about something, or feel free to contact me on my talk page if you'd like me to "show you around" or answer anything specific. Good luck!

Catherine - talk 04:58, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm glad to hear your teacher is using Wikipedia as a teaching tool -- please let your teacher know that we invite him or her to list the class project at Wikipedia:School and university projects so that the editors who are here every day know what's going on -- it would be helpful to know how many students are participating, and in what areas.
I don't know whether your article would be allowed to stand for a month -- we do our very best to avoid having duplicate articles in the live encyclopedia, which is actively indexed by Google and is copied and used by many other sites. It looks like 'Apismellifera' will be growing to be very similar to 'honeybee'.
My suggestion would be to choose another topic that Wikipedia does NOT yet have an article for, if that's acceptable to your teacher (see Wikipedia:Requested articles for some ideas). If the honeybee is the topic you are required to write about, ask your teacher if you can contribute to the existing article -- s/he can see which parts you added by clicking "Page history" and looking for your name. If that's not acceptable either, I would suggest going to the 'Apismellifera' page and using the "Move this page" link to move the page to User:Arrowhead/Apismellifera -- this will create a subpage of your user page. You can build your own "private" article there, with all of the same Wiki functions and links available to you, but it will not be part of the main encyclopedia article space. When your assignment is graded and finished, you can delete the page, or work on merging useful parts into existing articles.
Does that help? Catherine - talk 05:38, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Good work! I'm glad to see that you've gotten the hang of the subpages. (I checked your list of "User Contributions" from the link in the sidebar, in case you're wondering how I knew.)
User:Arrowhead/Apismellifera
User:Arrowhead/Apis mellifera communication 
User:Arrowhead/Apis mellifera life cycle
I look forward to seeing more contributions from you. I've redirected the pages you created in the main encyclopedia to honeybee, after checking that everything you'd written had been copied to your subpages. Best of luck on your assignment, Catherine | talk 04:00, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

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22:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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10:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)