User talk:NotWith/archive 2011
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[[User:Marek69|Marek]].[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|69]][[User_talk:Marek69| talk]] 14:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil
[edit]Hi NotWith, I just wanted to let you know that I took a look at your recently created article [[Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil]]-- The content seems well-organized.However, I noticed there are some holes that may need filling: the article currently does not contain any [[WP:REF|references]]. As a new article, the most important thing is to find reliable references for all existing information.It would be great if you could also [[Help:Files|upload a picture]] for the related article [[Pool Re]].
I'm kind of new here myself but let me know if there is any way I can help. Thanks, [[User:Amyxz|Amy Z]] ([[User talk:Amyxz|talk]]) 15:26, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
[[Catalebeda elegans]]
[edit]Please don't add [[WP:IRS|unreferenced]] articles. Thanks, [[User:Chzz| Chzz ]][[User talk:Chzz| ► ]] 21:46, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Page moves
[edit]Please stop moving pages without discussion. Failure to seek consensus before such changes can be seen as disruptive and may result in your being blocked from editing. --[[User:Stemonitis|Stemonitis]] ([[User talk:Stemonitis|talk]]) 00:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Some tips to help you out!
[edit]Hi {{BASEPAGENAME}}, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)
First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the [[WP:MOS|Wikipedia manual of style]], which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.
Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: [[user:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Sandbox]], that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.
For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers ([[User:Chzz|Chzz]]).
Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - [[WP:CITEQR|citation templates]] which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted [[WP:INCITE|inline citations]] :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.
Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.
One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" [[User:ThatPeskyCommoner| Pesky]] ([[User talk:ThatPeskyCommoner|talk]] …[[Special:Contributions/ThatPeskyCommoner|stalk!]]) 09:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
How references work
[edit]Simple references
[edit]These require two parts;
- a)
Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> <nowiki>]http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website<nowiki>] </ref>
- b) A section called "References" with the special code "<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>";
== References ==
{{reflist}}
(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)
To see the result of that, please look at [[user:chzz/demo/simpleref]]. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as [[user:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/reftest]] and try it out.
Named references
[edit]Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>
Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see [[user:chzz/demo/namedref]] to see the result.
Citation templates
[edit]You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;
Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = John
| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
| publication-date = 2001
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| page = 125
| isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>
Please see [[user:chzz/demo/citeref]] to see the result.
For more help and tips on that subject, see [[user:chzz/help/refs]].
Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!
[edit]You might want to consider using [[WP:REFLINKS|this tool]] - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete [[WP:CITEQR|citation templates]] for your links. All you do is install the script on [[Special:MyPage/common.js]], or or [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]], then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can't do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose something appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! [[User:ThatPeskyCommoner| Pesky]] ([[User talk:ThatPeskyCommoner|talk]] …[[Special:Contributions/ThatPeskyCommoner|stalk!]]) 09:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
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Something we need to know!
[edit]NotWith, we need to know how you seem to be managing to find, open, edit and re-save hundreds of pages at an average of about a page a minute, on such things as wikilinking words; it also only seems to take two minutes to change from one keyword search to the next. We don;t think it would be possible for most people to have 50 or more tabls open at a time, in order to be able to get through these at the rate you were doing. On 8th October, for instance, (two days after registering with us), you opened, edited and re-saved ]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&limit=200&target=NotWith nearly 200 pages between 08:02 and 14:28], for the most part at the rate of around one a minute, with apparently no breaks. Can you please let us know how this was done? <nowiki>[[User:ThatPeskyCommoner| Pesky]] ([[User talk:ThatPeskyCommoner|talk]] …[[Special:Contributions/ThatPeskyCommoner|stalk!]]) 13:36, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- I was apparently disambiguating the Orion, Pluto, Ganymede, Phobos, Deimos, Titan (etc.) disambiguation pages as all those words have in common to have at least a mythological and an astronomic aspect. To be quick I was using the what links here link present in the toolbox. As instructed in the Disambiguation template stating This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter-number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article., a was adding a piped link to point to the different intended article (mythology or moon). That's the basic job of correcting links that point to disambiguation pages. I think plenty of people know that! Cheers! --[[User:NotWith|NotWith]] ([[User talk:NotWith#top|talk]]) 14:32, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, I can see what the changes were, OK (and therefore what you were doing); I was just wondering how you managed to work so quickly (first finding all the disambig links to fix, then fixing a page a minute for lots of the time) for about six and a half hours, without taking any kind of a break! Pages must load a lot faster for you than they do for me; by the time you've loaded them, edited them, checked your edit, saved them, waited for them to reload on saving before you can close them, and so on. You must have been having an awful lot of tabs open at any one time. It seemed very expert, fast (and a bit unusual) work for an editor so new to Wikipedia. [[User:ThatPeskyCommoner| Pesky]] ([[User talk:ThatPeskyCommoner|talk]] …[[Special:Contributions/ThatPeskyCommoner|stalk!]]) 17:09, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Page moves
[edit]You have been warned before about making undiscussed page moves, and you are at it again, and making a royal mess of it, too. There are good reasons for using the disambiguator "(genus)". Please make no further page moves without establishing consensus for them first. Failure to do so may be considered disruptive editing, and could result in your being blocked (as happened with [[User:Nono64]]). --[[User:Stemonitis|Stemonitis]] ([[User talk:Stemonitis|talk]]) 16:32, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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