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Images

I removed the gallery at Hans Sachs (poster collector) because that section heading said they were "Like Those in the Hans Sachs Collection" - which I understood to mean that those posters weren't necessarily part of the collection. Either way, the list of images would not really aid our readers' understanding of Hans Sachs (as opposed to, say, early 20th century poster art) and thus seems off-topic on that article. If reliable sources highlight some particularly famour posters Sachs owned we could add those, but we shouldn't overo it. Huon (talk) 22:55, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to your email: You asked about my edit on Revent's talk page. In short, I mistakenly believed Revent had made a typo; however, Revent's original code was correct, and I quickly reverted my own edit. The first part of the edit summary is the title of the section I edited, the last part, remove typo: Only one colon for "subst:" was added by me to describe what I did: I thought I was fixing a typo by removing one of the colons from "{{subst::Hans Sachs (poster collector)}}". Two colons are correct, though. Huon (talk) 18:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Let me elaborate a little: When using "subst" to duplicate a page, that's usually done for pages in the "Template" WP:Namespace, such as Template:Smiley. For convenience, such pages can be substituted by using just a single colon and the page name, without prefix: {{subst:Smiley}} will give this:

. However, if you want to duplicate a page that's not in the template namespace, say our article Smiley, the software must be able to tell that you're not trying to duplicate Template:Smiley. Thus the article code cannot be duplicated by {{subst:Smiley}}; the code to duplicate a non-template page instead uses two colons: {{subst::Smiley}} would duplicate the code of the article on smileys.

If this seems rather complicated, don't worry; templates and substitution are rather tricky, but you can go far without ever using either. In fact I never substituted a non-template page; that's part of the reason why I mistakenly believed in a typo on Revent's part. Huon (talk) 18:37, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I also just saw the message you left at my user page. The usual place for such messages is not the user page but the user talk page; thus someone removed your message, but unfortunately didn't add it to the talk page. Sorry for that. Regarding your question: I had understood " like one that was sold at one of the Hans Sachs auctions" to mean that they were, say, stylistically similar, not that Sachs owned copies of those same posters. On second thought and after reading the article's sources it's obvious that I misunderstood you. However, I'd still say that dozens of posters are overkill. I think the only one explicitly mentioned in the text of a source (instead of just added in a "Look, nice picture!" fashion) is Flagg's "I want YOU" recruitment poster; how about adding that one? Huon (talk) 19:09, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I flat out do not understand Wikipedia.

My article on Hans Sachs was more or less accepted and now exists under that name.

But my sandbox contains my original version, and if I edit it away, those edits take place on the Hans Sachs article.

How do I clear out my sandbox to begin anew?

Henry Townsend 19:00, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

What is actually in your sandbox is a WP:REDIRECT to the article, left behind when it was moved to the main space. So when you click on it you are taken to the article. But if you then look at the top left, just under the article title you will see "Redirected from User:Henrytow/sandbox". Clicking on that will take you back to the actual sandbox page with the redirect, which you can then delete or replace with anything you like. JohnCD (talk) 19:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have done so for you with this edit. If you want to check out an example redirect, try Wikipedia:R, which redirects to Wikipedia:Redirect; the redirect page itself is here. Please don't modify that redirect, though; it's a heavily-used shortcut. Huon (talk) 19:32, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs

Thank you for your recent articles, including Hans Sachs (poster collector), which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:44, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages

Thank you for your recent articles, including Hans Sachs (poster collector), which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:44, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Galleries

Please see the section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style on galleries: WP:GALLERY. I hope this will help you understand more why the gallery was removed. I'd suggest restoring one or two in-line, and creating a Wikimedia Commons gallery/category (if one doesn't exist), then linking that from the article. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:29, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ENGVAR

You need to read this before you attempt to "correct mispellings" again! Johnbod (talk) 04:25, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help me!

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Please help me with... A number of images that I have uploaded now have a new message that a United States public domain tag is needed.

I have now been looking for such for 15 minutes, and as a small rebellion against the extreme difficulty of using Wikipedia, I now ask someone to tell me.

What, specifically, is a United States public domain tag? Please point me to an example.

Henry Townsend 17:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Are you perhaps talking about {{PD-US-no notice}}? If not, check out , which holds all of the image copyright templates. If you can't find it in there, please change the {{help me}} tag so that you can get more help. Primefac (talk) 19:21, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Henry Townsend 16:24, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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