User talk:Vbenguiat girlscode

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Hello, Vbenguiat girlscode, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
I noticed you've made one or more edits related to women's biographies and editathons. Should you be interested in helping to redress the balance of articles about women, you might wish to consider joining our Women in Red project. Less than 18% of biographies here are about women - and you could help us increase this!
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox. Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) This automatically inserts your name and the date. If you get stuck, please see our help pages. If you can't find what you are looking for there, feel free to ask at the Teahouse or at the Women in Red project's Talk Page. Alternatively, contact me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help you. Again, welcome! Nick Moyes (talk) 21:30, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Vbenguiat girlscode. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Nick Moyes (talk) 21:28, 8 September 2018 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

This appears to be the invitation to an edit-a-thon, and not a draft encyclpedia article. Please post this on the appropriate project noticeboard or distribute it via the appropriate mailing list.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Vbenguiat girlscode/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 22:52, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Vbenguiat girlscode! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 22:52, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Vbenguiat girlscode! You created a thread called Ada Lovelace Wiki edit-a-thon volunteers seeked at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread.

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Sorry for taking a while to reply to your message - I'm not very active on here these days (see my contributions page!) but I can certainly try to explain the basics. Not sure if I'd be much help though. But it's nice to know another editor in MK! Can you tell me a bit about yourself? Tom walker (talk) 08:46, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Tom, any pointers would be welcomed, I even struggled to find how to reply to your reply! I co-founded GirlsCode MK and I co-host the annual Django Girls Milton Keynes in the National Museum of Computing, and now we're going to host an Ada Lovelace Wiki-edit-athon but we haven't been able to secure any editors. So enter me, who has the task to learn how to edit articles by October 9. I'm starting to panic! If we could meet or skype or zoom or anything that'd be really appreciated. Vbenguiat girlscode (talk) 13:16, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Very interesting! A good way to find local editors would be to scour the edit histories of articles on local subjects, although I appreciate that may well be how you found me. What is it you want to do to the Ada Lovelace article? The main thing is to make sure information you add is sourced, whether that's from books, films, documentaries, articles or whatever, and any photos you add are either public domain or fair use. More info on sourcing and referencing here [1] and on image attribution here [2] (you should create a wikimedia commons account to upload photos then link them across). It's well worth exploring all these Wikipedia guidance articles. Good luck with the meetup - I'm an organiser at the MK Young Professionals meetup group myself so I appreciate the difficulty in getting people to engage in these things sometimes. Tom walker (talk) 12:31, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sources which are not online are often perfectly fine

There has never been and never will be a requirement that you only use online sources in Wikipedia articles. However, stray newspaper and magazine clippings which do not permit full referencing cannot be used. The idea is that if you quote an article by Effie Hochwaffel in Globner's Tennessee Observer, I should be able to go to a physical copy of Globner's Tennessee Observer and find that article; so we need page number, issue number, publication date, etc. As a historian, I have discovered that many clippings files lack that kind of reference information. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:42, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Vbenguiat girlscode/sandbox

Hello, Vbenguiat girlscode. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 23:36, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]