User talk:Noahand

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Spam

You've been spamming Wikipedia with links to www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com . Why do you add those links? As far as I can see they add nothing to the articles. The issue has been brought up at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Enquiry. If that site is usable as a reference, please use the information there to develop the articles.
I'm considering reverting all your edits, so please drop a note on my talk page to explain why you are adding those links.
Thanks
/ Raven in Orbit (talk) 21:24, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thanks for your interest in sharing knowledge and making information freely available. Sorry if I forgot to include some English politeness above -- we use so much less formality in Swedish.

FYI 1: On my talk page you added you entry arbitrarily near the top of the page. There is a tab on every talk page labelled "new section". To start a new thread just use it to add your section at the bottom of any talk page. (I did here on your talk page.) To add a comment to an existing thread, just use the [edit] link found next to every section. (I guess that's what you did on my talk page.)

FYI 2: The discussion on your contributions has been archived here without any real discussion. I guess we can just forget about it.

Regarding your contribution history: There are different opinions on what external links should be included on Wikipedia. Wikipedia gets spammed continuously and it is a good editing practice to not only add external links but also contribute to the articles somehow. I'd recommend you to use CE as a source to add content to the articles. Don't think of this as a lot of work. Just to show you how to do it I reworked E. D. Blodgett (diff). There I used the CE article as a reference instead of just as an external link. It's a way of doing both Canadian students and Wikipedia a service. I removed both CE links in the "External links" section, but I guess I could have left them there. You'll find more information on how to use references on Wikipedia:Citation templates. It's not very difficult once you get used to it.

I'm working like 12 hours per day at this time, but please drop a note on my talk page if you need any help on Wikipedia. Please forgive me any shortcomings in English.

/ Raven in Orbit (talk) 22:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noahand,

Only idiots love computers. Wikipedia is supposed to be as simple as possible. There is no need to read a book to start contributing. Just edit until someone reminds you there are better ways to do it. My first edits on the Swedish Wikipedia didn't contain any wiki syntax at all. :)

I had a look at that E. D. Blodgett edit of mine, and I realise I was a poor teacher doing multiple things in a single edit. Just use the code as displayed below as a template to use information from CE as a source in any article:

<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/more-stuff-goes-here.html | title = Subject goes here | publisher = The Canadian Encylopedia}}</ref>

If there is no reference section in the article you need to start one:

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Only read Wikipedia:Citation templates to find more information on using that code once you feel ready to go more advanced.

Regards

/ Raven in Orbit (t|c) 19:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]