User talk:Vs26

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Vs26. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  20:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

ようこそ You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes. Play in your user area. For example, create User:Vs26/test. Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009. When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia! -- Chzz  ►  20:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

Re. Gary Chartrand

Be carefuly about conflict of interest; stick to facts from reliable sources.

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == 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:Vs26/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> 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 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.

 Chzz  ►  20:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Edits to your test page

Hiya.

I made a few edits to your test page - adding one citation example, and some minor tweaks; as I think I said, normally nobody would edit things in your userspace. However, I thought you wouldn't mind me doing so... you can see the edits I made by looking in the page history; by clicking on (prev) in the list there, it'll show you the changes between one version and the previous one.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  00:12, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello! This is just to show how your talk page works, since you asked in IRC! That, and I felt like beating Chzz to the punch for once! Welcome to Wikipedia! --ANowlin: talk 04:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Reply

I've replied to your message; see User talk:Chzz#Thank You.  Chzz  ►  04:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

And again, same place.  Chzz  ►  04:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Note, I have now archived the replies, into User talk:Chzz/Archive 25#Thank You (from Vs26).

Please don't edit that page though - it is just for old messages; to contact me again, start a new section on my user talk page. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  23:49, 14 August 2010 (UTC)