User talk:Moshekaye

Truman College

Thank you for pointing out the dead-link. I have updated the reference. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:54, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you John, Looks like some of the other links are also 404...Can you explain to me how i can edit them myself?

Moshekaye (talk) 15:57, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

John, I believe that i have corrected all the relevant links but i cannot find on the current website for the college any current reference to the "Northeastern Illinois University partnership" and the "Truman College Teacher Preparation". I have left them in the article for the moment but wanted to ask what is the protocol for removal? Some advice would be appreciated. Thank you! Moshekaye (talk) 05:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I just found this page so i will update the reference with this link. Moshekaye (talk) 05:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Referencing

The new VisualEditor has only recently acquired the ability to edit references, and I have not personally grappled with that aspect of it yet. The instructions are in the relevant section of WP:VisualEditor/User guide and if you read that you will know as much as I do. If you try it and encounter problems, feedback is welcome at WP:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Using the old "Wiki text" editor, available from the "Edit source" tab, what you need to know is that the actual reference is located at the relevant place in the text of the article, between a pair of <ref> and </ref> tags. At the end of the article a "template", {{reflist}}, causes the system to display a list of all the references, with links back to small reference numbers in the actual text.

To give a reference to a website, the simple form has an opening square bracket, the full url including "http//" followed by one space and then the text to be displayed and a closing square bracket. So one of the Truman College ones looks like:

<ref>[http://www.trumancollege.edu/visitors/accred.php About Truman College Accreditation]</ref>

If that link were broken, you need only replace the url with the new one, being careful to leave a space after it before the display text.

A refinement you can see used on the first Truman reference is that if a ref is to be used more than once, the first instance can be of the form <ref name="some name"> ... </ref>, and subsequent ones are just <ref name="some name"/> with no need to repeat the url etc.

There are more elaborate forms of reference described at WP:CITE, but that is probably enough for now! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:39, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Please assist. The IP of this offensive and threatening talk posting (now removed) needs to be blocked. (190.12.43.27)

Moshekaye (talk) 16:52, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done - IP blocked 6 months, in view of its previous record. I have reverted its other edits - feel free to revert it here. JohnCD (talk) 17:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

thank you again johnCD! Moshekaye (talk) 17:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

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Help request

This is the 2nd time a person from .ec has put something nasty(the first time it was a physical threat) on my talk page. can this IP also be blocked for some period? Also, can my user and my talk pages both be set to semi-protected? If so, how is it done/requested?

@JohnCD: if you are available can you assist? TY. ~Moshe Moshekaye (talk) 17:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Moshe! On behalf of JohnCD please see User talk:190.130.236.187 – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 18:05, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) As this IP has no previous record, and it is not clear that it is static, I have only blocked for a week. The place to request semi-protection is WP:RFPP, but talk pages are very rarely semi-protected, and where they are it is usual to provide an unprotected alternate page so that IPs can communicate, which rather defeats the object. User pages can be semi-protected, but yours has not been attacked so far, and protection is not applied pre-emptively. This sort of troll usually gets bored fairly soon. For interest, both IPs geolocate to Quito. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

TY Moshekaye (talk) 18:31, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hi @moshekaye

Could you take a look at the Peabody Essex Museum page? You reverted a blatant editorial comment once, and it's cropped up again. An editor named Spitfire 77 inserted the editorial comment about salary disparities again, and misspelled the quote to boot. It's been appended in the middle of the article (at the end of the 2000s-2010s section) with no context. Thanks,

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