User talk:Georgialale
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[edit]Hello, Georgialale, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Eleni Mylonas, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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{{Help me}}
Dear Fred,
Thank you for your welcoming and instructive message. Wikipedia can be overwhelming for a new editor like myself. I am a Greek artist in my 30s. I have noticed that postwar Greek and Greek American international artists with notability are underrepresented in Wikipedia. Eleni Mylonas is one of those artists. I started with her because her family played an important role at the roll out of Greek modern history. See, her father Georgios Mylonas and great grandfather Panagiotis Danglis. I should have started the article about Eleni Mylonas as a subpage and ask for another editors feedback before I posted it, especially because I am still working on it. If you think that it will be constructive I will make this article a draft and ask you for your feedback.
I appreciate your help. Please let me know how you would like me to proceed.
Proper way to insert images in infoboxes
[edit]Hello @Georgialale. I am @Archer1234. I noticed your recent edit to Cynthia Carlson where you added an image to the infobox. I want to let you know that the way you added the image was not done according to Wikipedia's Manual of Style (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE).
- When adding an image to an infobox, thumbnails should NOT be used. Simply supplying the file name will work. For example, to use File:Image PlaceHolder.png, you can simply use
|image=Image PlaceHolder.png. Captions should be specified with the|caption=parameter. Every infobox is different and the documentation for the infobox in question should be consulted for the proper parameters to match the image and caption.
- To fix
Do not use the full image syntax:
|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]
Instead, just supply the name of the image. So, in this case you can simply do:
|image=SomeImage.jpg
and optionally:
|caption=Some image caption.
Hopefully you will find this information useful for your future editing. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. — Archer1234 (talk) 16:26, 5 January 2023 (UTC)