User talk:Grahams Child
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[edit] Welcome
Hello, Grahams Child, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! FrankB 16:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Grahams Child Links
- User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox1 — Concrete
- User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox2 — I've placed a 'welcome page' for newcomers in this one. Play with it. It's meant to be a HowToDo demonstration + Advise. FrankB
- User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox3 — tbdl02
[edit] Helpful users
[edit] Saw you've been ignored
- Your Technical Questions, on Village Pump
- Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this posting, if not i'd be obliged if it was moved to a more suitable place by a more experienced user than myself. It has struck me in my limited time as a user of Wikipedia that the "search" engine is a bit of an oxymoron. It appears to be more of a database index. It seems incapable of discerning that two identical searches, one with capitals the other without, are looking for the same article. Is there a possibility that the search engine could be changed/developed to ignore whether capitals so that less redirected articles are required? I am completely unawares as to the technical difficulty of this so you will have to excuse me if I am asking something that is alot more difficult than it appears. Regards. Grahams Child 16 May 06
It got ignored, as the question is one of design, not technical by that page's lights. Still, someone should have answered you. The WikiSearch engine is designed to be case sensative, because an encyclopedia needs case selection, see WP:NC. The Search window itself, is dual purpose with two buttons. Consider the debate at talk:ebook over the name for the article. Names here matter a lot, including capitalization. Consider a book or film title; virtually every major word is capitalized. Other proper names like the magazine: Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, all need proper capitalization.
On redirects, if you can't find the title in another online or paper encyclopedia, I'd suggest waiting until you are more familiar with the system before creating such. In particular, mere capitalization is a fairly poor reason to create an aliased name. Most anyone experienced with encyclopedia's learns to know the pattern of words capitalized in various kinds of titles, it's part of secondary schooling, if not elementary school courses... thus a necessary skill for anyone owning any claim to acedemic prowess. (Still, I know what you mean, I've totally missed things here using the wrong caps. Best advice: When in doubt, search wiki via google.)
OTOH, if you want to do a case insenative search, you can do so using google, especially if you use a google toolbar in your browser. WP:Tools, probably has some hints as well. Mine the links I've got on my user page. There is a lot of goodies. I'm going to take the liberty of creating a 'sandbox' for you and moving your article text inside that. User:Fabartus/Welcome message FrankB 16:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding some answers to your questions
- I left you an answer Here<g>.
- You're email is 'Off', you have to activate it under the preferences TAB when logged in.
- As noted, your questions will get faster responses on email. Or at least an estimate and a quick and dirty answer on what seems most important!
Best wishes, FrankB 20:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Chiming in 'cos i'm nosy like that ;) You (both) may like these 2 pages. Template:Writing guides, and Wikipedia:Grading scheme. -Quiddity 06:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:Hyena.PNG
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Thanks for uploading Image:Hyena.PNG. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -SCEhardT 10:52, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Just checking in
Hi! Thought I'd see how you're doing. Need any help? // FrankB 16:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image tagging for Image:Antechinus.PNG
Thanks for uploading Image:Antechinus.PNG. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.
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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 09:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
