User talk:Allycat1208

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Hello, Allycat1208, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hello, John of Reading Sorry I did not get back to you more quickly, but I'm very confused about everything on Wikipedia including on how to respond to your message. I have read some of the Tutorials but I'm still confused. Do you know how I can work on a page without it being seen until I think its ready to be seen? I am currently just using my user page. Is that what I should be using? I am trying to make my first article and it will probably take a while, before I think its ready! Thanks again. Allycat1208 (talk) 21:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings

I suggest you read Wikipedia:Your first article, as least as far down as the "Contents" box, before continuing with the draft article on your user page. You will need to include some sources to show where the information is coming from. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:25, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Key West, Florida!

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

Thanks. I wrote an article on my user page withut naming it initially. How do you name an article later on if it was not done initially? Allycat1208 (talk) 03:38, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

I suggest you ask for the article to be reviewed and then moved. You do this my adding this magic code at the top:

{{subst:AFC submission/submit}}

and then save the page. This will turn into a yellow box explaining that the page is in a queue. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. John of Reading! I moved it and renamed it myself but when I do a search on google with the title and wiki it does not appear. Why is that? Allycat1208 (talk) 22:18, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Google will catch up eventually, but Wikipedia has no control over how long it will take. Try again in a day or two. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, Is there a way I can write an article without it being viewed until its ready to go into publication on Wikipedia? 69.113.134.101 (talk) 18:50, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes. Instead of writing the article on your user page, use the Article wizard and, at the final step, choose either "Create submission for review" or "Create new userspace draft". These two options create a page marked to be ignored by search engines. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks lots again John of Reading! Just curious is this the best way to get help about wikipedia without reading though the vast information on wikpedia itself? I'm not used to this but its getting a bit easier! Allycat1208 (talk) 06:38, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

You could try some of the links at Help:Contents, or the "search" box there, but asking questions here is fine! Just be sure to add a fresh {{help me}} if you ask a new question so that the other helpers are alerted. Aside: if you begin a paragraph with spaces the formatting looks awful, so I have removed them. Try the Wikipedia:Cheatsheet as a quick introduction to the various formatting codes. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:43, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Editing sections

Hi, I set up an edit for sections but I'm having trouble editing because my sections are too big. I read about trying to fix them but I was not able to do it. How would I do this? Can anyone do it for me? thanks.... also, after using the edit sections and hitting the "show preview" bar, I cannot see the whole page to see how whatever I edited did to the reference sections. I'm confused! Allycat1208 (talk) 03:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

I haven't understood your first point here. Are you referring to the sections in User:Allycat1208/Zahra Baker? I don't see a problem there, except that while editing and previewing I have to use the browser scrollbar to view the "preview" and the edit box. Can you describe your problem in more detail?

For the second point, I'm afraid there is no automatic way to preview the references while editing one section. One workaround is to click the "Edit" at the very top of the page if you know you are going to be editing references, so that you preview the whole of the page. What I tend to do is to edit one section, and temporarily add "{{reflist}}" at the bottom of the section before previewing. This should give you a preview of the references in that section - but then you must remember to remove the extra "{{reflist}}" before saving the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:43, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, yes, I am working on Zahra Baker! I thought there is a way to look at a smaller portion of a section in the edit box, because when I try to edit and just read the section of my article called "Investigation, its still a large section to look at, even with just using the edit on the side of the page. I looked at the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Section_editing and there's a section called: "Editing a page with large sections". I thought maybe this is what I needed to do, but I don't understand what it says exactly. Did I make myself more comprehensible? Any suggestions? Thanks for all your help! Allycat1208 (talk) 07:40, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, I see. I think that help section is for when a section gets so large that the browser can't cope with it; I don't think the advice applies to your page. What you could do is to break up the "Investigation" section into smaller sections by adding "level 3 headings" === Like this === with three equals signs. Since this is only a draft the extra headings could just be === Break 1 for easy editing === and so on. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:32, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, John or Reading or whomever! I don't know if I should be addressing you personally, John of Reading, but since you always seem to respond to my questions I thought I'd ask you to review this article. Do you think its ready to go live? I've only done 2 other articles so far that I moved to "live area", but one of the articles already has issues....its been tagged with warnings and its small compared to the Zahra Baker article. So, I thought I'd ask before going live with this one. thanks again in advance to John of Reading or anyone!! Allycat1208 (talk) 22:19, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

If no ones else answers - try WP:RFF  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:44, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi! I'm best at technical questions, so I also recommend WP:RFF for getting your draft reviewed. I'll leave the "helpme" showing, though, because some of the other helpers are good at reviewing too. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

(Several hours later) I'll cancel the "helpme" now. It looks as if WP:RFF is your best bet. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, What do you do for citations when articles are without an authors names listed, if you need to reference the article more than once? I'm talking about the "Ref name=" field. Isn't this referring to the name of the author? Or you can put anything in that field that makes sense? One more question....I now have a few articles with the same author and the same publication, so what do you do in this instance? Can you just put ref name= Smith1 and for another citation ref name= Smith2? thanks in advance! Allycat1208 (talk) 23:55, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

That "name" field can be anything you like; "Smith1" and "Smith2" would be great. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:26, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Andrew wamsley for deletion

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File upload question

I am having trouble attaching a photo to an article I am working on. The file name is displayed where the photo should be in the article without displaying the named photo. I read about attaching a photo on wiki here but I don't see what I did wrong. The article name is user:allycat1208/Zahra Baker if someone can look at it. Thanks. Allycat1208 (talk) 01:17, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

I took a look through your contributions, and I don't see any place where you uploaded any pictures to Wikipedia. I also can't find any pictures of Zahra Baker anywhere in our file space. You do need to upload files to Wikipedia prior to adding them to articles. If someone else uploaded it, perhaps you've mis-spelled the file name? Let me know more details, I'll watch this page for your response. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:24, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Do I upload it from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload to my user page name? I just tried it from that page and I get an error that reads: File Extension does not match Mime type. What does this mean? Thanks again! Allycat1208 (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Is the file a jpeg, like its extension says? That is, does the .xxx at the end of the file match the type of file it is? Qwyrxian (talk) 03:52, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Also, I'm going to ask another user who I know is a file expert for some help. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:54, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, its a jpg file. Thanks again! Allycat1208 (talk) 04:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi there. Qwyrxian asked me to help.

A file extension is the three or four letters at the end of the file name after the dot. So in "File:Example.jpg" , the file extension is "jpg".

The image's file type is the type of file it is. For example, if a document was made in Microsoft Word, it would be a word document (and would save with the file extension "doc" or "docx".) If the document was made in Microsoft Powerpoint, the document would be a powerpoint file, with a "ppt" file extension.

Every image is saved with a file type already. Chances are it is ether "jpg", "png", or "gif".

What the "File Extension does not match Mime type." message means is that you tried to upload a file, lets say that it was a "png", but when you named it, you named it as a "jpg". In order for the file to upload to Wikipedia, the file extension and the file type must match.

If this still does not make sense, and the image you're trying to upload is one that you took, upload the image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard instead of the above link. In that upload form, you don't have to specify the file extension, it does that for you. If it's an image from a website, instead leave me a message with the website address at this page and I will upload it for you.

I hope this helps, Sven Manguard Wha? 04:24, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Alright. I see you uploaded the image. Unfortunately, the image is not free to use, so it can't go into the article because the article is still a draft.

Right now, the article is at User:Allycat1208/Zahra Baker. Once the article is moved to Zahra Baker, then the image can be put into the "infobox", which is what we call the box in the top right corner of the page (I just put one in).

When you decide to move it, what you have to do is replace change the line in that infobox that says "| name = " to "| image = Zahra-clare-baker.jpg" (just cut and paste everything inside the second set of quotes (but not the quotation marks) into that page.

When you do that, please tell me, as there is one more important thing that has to be done.

Sven Manguard Wha? 05:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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If you didn't take the photograph yourself, then it is the property of the person who took the photograph. Unless that person specifically said that anyone could use the image, for free, in any way they liked, the image isn't considered free for us to use. None of that stops you from saving the file to your computer, but it does stop Commons from hosting the image.

However, Wikipedia itself can host the images that are not free to use, under a rationale called "fair use", and the image you uploaded to Commons qualifies for fair use.

Therefore, once the article goes from your personal page to the main space where the other articles are, I can transfer the image you uploaded from Commons to Wikipedia, and fill out a form that will allow it to stay at Wikipedia and be used in the article. The rules of fair use, however, prevent me from doing that until you've moved the article.

Sven Manguard Wha? 05:51, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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You can edit your own talk page the same way you edit my talk page. Just click the edit button at the top of your talk page. Just indent the text the way you did with the question you made right above, and you'll be fine. I'm watching your page, so I'll know when you respond. Sven Manguard Wha? 06:10, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Haleigh Cummings for deletion

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Nomination of Hailey Dunn for deletion

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Question on User Contributions

Hi, I am trying to find the most updated version of each article of a different name in my user contributions list. Because there are so many revisions it is getting increasingly difficult to find what I'm looking for without browsing through the many pages. Is there a way to just search for an article by name only in the user contribution list? Can I search for a list of one of each of all articles? Also, is there a way to delete articles under user contributions? Thanks in advance! Allycat1208 (talk) 20:51, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your question but, when you look at your contributions list, if you click on the name of an article you will be taken to the most recent version of that article. Then you can click on "View history" to see the history of that article. There is no way to remove entries from your contribution history; every contribution to Wikipedia is permanently recorded. If an article is deleted, references to it will disappear from your contribution history (though they will will be visible to admins).

A piece of advice: when working on an article it is better not to make a series of many small edits. Make a change, use "Show preview" to check that it is what you wanted, then make another change and use "Show preview" again, and only click "Save page" when you have made several changes. That avoids filling up the page history, and your contribution history, with lots of small edits (and also eases the load on the servers, which have to record each version that you save). Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Talkback from Richwales (about Hailey Dunn article)

Hi. I saw your question and responded to it on my own talk page. Richwales (talk · contribs) 00:26, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Question regarding article Conrad Murray

I created an article in my user space called "User:Allycat1208/Conrad Murray". I tried to move it so it could go "live", but wiki gives a message saying the name is protected. I realized there is a wiki page that called "Conrad Murray" which is redirected from the "Death of Michael Jackson" wiki article, but the page has nothing written in it yet. Also, the wiki page "Conrad Murray" cannot be edited. Can I add my article by renaming it or is there a reason why the "Conrad Murray" that is currently out there is not allowed to be edited? Allycat1208 (talk) 04:43, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

The reason the page is indefinitely protected from people making a Conrad Murray article is because there was an excessive amount of people creating the page and Wikipedia believed that it wasn't the time to have an article for Conrad Murray yet. I hope this answers your question but if not, leave another message. SwisterTwister talk

Thanks! Allycat1208 (talk) 06:56, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

And I took a look at your draft, and it would have the same problems as the other versions. There's nothing inherently wrong with the work you did, but it falls under a special wikipedia policy called WP:BLP1E. That policy says that people who are famous for only 1 event generally are not notable enough for an article. This is especially true when the event paints the person in a bad light or is about criminal activity. Only in special cases where the event is extremely important (an example here is Sirhan Sirhan, who has no notability outside of his crime, but whose crime was so important to US history and so extensively covered that he deserves an article) that an article is appropriate. Most criminals do not get articles, and Donald Murray isn't even a convicted criminal. Another way of putting it is this: if Murray had done all of the same activities, but done them on a random rich but not famous person, Murray wouldn't be at all famous; he's only "famous" because his client was Micheal Jackson. As such, Murray is correctly mentioned in the article Death of Michael Jackson, and anyone who searches for Murray gets automatically redirected there. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:37, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Allycat1208 (talk) 06:56, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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