User talk:Linniebc

|linniebc|Saulteaux Indians of Montana|

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Welcome

Hi Linniebc. I see you've had a little trouble adding your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Federal Indian Law and Policy (Kristin Ruppel), you need to add it a little lower. Feel free to have another go, or if you're a little worried, leave me a message and I'll go through the how to in a little more depth. Worm^TT 10:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help with tables

Hi Linniebc. Don't worry if you're struggling a little bit, these things do happen. Wikipedia can be quite alien to some people, but hopefully you should be able to get the hang of it. Now, the area I can see that you are struggling in is "wiki-tables", a very useful function of wiki-markup (the code behind all the wikipedia pages), but not all that common. It's not that hard when you get the hang of it though.

There are 3 important things to remember when looking at a table. It's start and finish point, its number of columns and its number of rows. You also have the optional extra of a header row at the top. Wikipedia takes care of the number of rows by generating it from the data between the start and finish point, so you only have to worry about the number of columns and where things start and finish.

Well, there's simple code for the start and finish, curly brace & pipe - {| and |}. So anything between them would be counted as part of a table. The next thing to do is start a new row, which we do using pipe and dash, |-. And once we have a row, we can denote the columns (effectively the cells on that row) by either a new line and pipe, |, or a double pipe, || , on the same line. Confused? I'll give you an example.

{| class="wikitable" <-- this is where my table starts - the class tells the code how to display the table
|- <-- this means start a new row
| 1st Row, 1st Cell 
| 1st Row, 2nd Cell <-- I'm starting each cell on a new line, so I only need one pipe
|- <-- another new row  
| 2nd Row, 1st Cell || 2nd Row, 2nd Cell <-- I'm putting them both on the same line, so I need a double pipe
|} <-- this is where my table ends

Will generate:

1st Row, 1st Cell	1st Row, 2nd Cell
2nd Row, 1st Cell	2nd Row, 2nd Cell

So it looks like your copy paste worked quite well on the project page, but you didn't include it in the table (not between the {| and |}) and you didn't ask for a new row |-. Have another go, and good luck. I'm here if you need help. Worm^TT · (talk) 07:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi linniebc. Your article is great. You have obviously done a lot of research and you cover the topic well. I do have a few suggestions. You shouldn't say "our tribe" in the beginning of the article because the author's voice should not be heard in a professional paper. When discussing all of the sons and daughters, it would be helpful for the reader if you put the English translation in parentheses instead of having the word "or" written so many times. For example: Ay-Yi-Ni-Kah-Kwah-Ni-P (Feathers Hanging From Each Other). This will just make the paragraph read smoother. There are also some grammatical errors throughout the article. If you want I am willing to go through and fix those errors. Of course I don't want to change anything in your sandbox without your permission. Just let me know if you want me to do that. Other than that, your article is great. Wikiwriter24 (talk) 17:54, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]