User talk:Virchu

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Virchu, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --ais523 17:26, 26 February 2007 (U T C)

Adding a contents box

Virchu: I need to know how to add a contents box and individual sections when starting a brand new Wikipedia page.

The sections are written like this:

== section title ==

which will create a title and the section below it. As for a table of contents, that's added automatically when there are enough sections (3, I think, but I might have remembered that incorrectly). I've added some section headings here as an example. I hope that helps; feel free to put {{helpme}} back up if you have any further questions. --ais523 17:26, 26 February 2007 (U T C)

Why does Wikipedia allow users to blank pages?

Because it's so easy for people to revert. It only took me about 20 seconds to put my userpage back the way it was, after I noticed you had changed it in my watchlist. If you'd tried that on an article, it would be likely to be changed back near-instantly by Recent Changes patrollers unless you gave a good reason in the edit summary; they could also have given you a warning pretty quickly as well if the blanking had looked malicious. Also, it's technically hard to identify a good blanking from a bad one. Hope that helps! --ais523 18:09, 26 February 2007 (U T C)

Communication

As it happens, I don't use instant-messaging services (except for IRC, but I don't use that in connection with Wikipedia). My Wikipedia talk page is normally enough for communication about Wikipedia-related things. Hope that helps! --ais523 18:14, 26 February 2007 (U T C)

I just logged off IRC as it happens, and I'm about to log off Wikpiedia for the time being too because I'm busy in real life. (By the way: irc.freenode.net, and #esoteric, if you were wondering). I don't use IRC in connection with Wikipedia due to the concerns of some editors that there's no transparency in actions discussed there. {{helpme}} is probably best in attracting help if you need to ask a question, mostly because not everyone can be online all the time (and I'm online less than most, as it happens); you could also try the help desk, which is slower, but produces more comprehensive replies. Hope that helps! --ais523 18:21, 26 February 2007 (U T C)

If you want real-time help over IRC, you could try irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-bootcamp (although I have no experience of it myself). --ais523 12:38, 28 February 2007 (U T C)

Image Posting

{{helpme}} I am currently trying to post an image on the king rising article. The image I would like to use is located @ http://www.magicshop.co.uk/images/kingrisingT.jpg - I need to know how to properly upload and how to place it on the article, thanks. Virchu 22:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please see Wikipedia:Image use policy first, then Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems otherwise ok but the image itself is just a downsampled version of Image:Kingrisinglevitation2.nwr.jpg. Did you really take the picture yourself? --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I just noticed that you used the {{PD-self}} image copyright tag (which states "I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain...") on the image page. That tag is for cases where the uploader and creator of the image are the same person. As for searching, Wikipedia doesn't actually have an effective search engine for images. Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 23:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found it almost accidentally from Wikimedia Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation's shared media repository. It is possible to search for images using Wiki's own search engine or an external one such as Google. This, however doesn't work as well as, for example, Flickr's image search. Commons also has image galleries and categories (example). --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ferrara Pan Candy Company

Hello, and welcome! You seem to have an interest in candies: I enjoy working on those pages, too. I noticed that you made some changes to the Ferrara Pan Candy Company article. It looked to be a cut and paste from this site. I wanted to let you know that an edit like that is considered to be a copyright violation. Of course you're welcome to use material from the page, but it's very important to put the information in your own words. The tone of the page is that of an advertisement for the company: something we try to avoid here. I've reverted the page back to its former version. Feel free to add more information to it, but not by pasting in whole sentences from other sites. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop a message at my talk page. Have a great day! Joyous! | Talk 01:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Britney Spears

Sorry, but you have attempted to replace a free use image with a copyrighted image. The image is deleted and your edits reverted. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 00:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confessional

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Confessional do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 16:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. Bertilvidet 16:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 17:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:180px-Kingrisinglevitation2_nwr.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:180px-Kingrisinglevitation2_nwr.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 03:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]