User talk:Wiki ian

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Fleet Battle Group Omega 2.1 Notability 2.2 Star Fleet Battle Group Omega 3 First edit 3.1 SECOND EDIT 3.2 THIRD EDIT 4 HM Prison Risdon 5 Template:Hobart suburbs 6 Chigwell Wiki 7 Tables

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Wiki ian, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Deepu Joseph. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk or ask me on my talk page.
• Sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~).
• Provide an Edit summary
• Take a look at Consensus of standards. It is always wise to read the talk page of an existing article before making major changes on it. Even then, I typically ask if anyone minds that I make a change. Very often they do! ;-)
• Create a User page

Again, welcome! And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask - Just click the talk button on my signature.
thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK}

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Fleet Battle Group Omega

In the above discussion, you voted "keep per nom". I wanted to let you know that "Keep per nom" is completely meaningless. "Per nom" means "for the same reason that the nominator had". The nominator is asking for deletion, so agreeing with his reasons would mean you want the page deleted. Please review this discussion and amend your vote accordingly.

Additionally, I would like to recommend that you submit articles like this to Memory Alpha, a wiki dedicated to Star Trek fan material. Stifle (talk) 21:07, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Who do you ask to put a link to memory Alpha on the main page or something so its easier to locate for computer illiterates. Wiki ian 07:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

It's at http://memory-alpha.org, and it won't be linked from the main page as it is not a Wikimedia project. But if you insist on asking, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard is probably the best place. The site is also linked from its Wikipedia page, Memory Alpha (initial capitals). Stifle (talk) 09:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

Please keep in mind that articles have to pass a certain standard of notability. Starships that were only mentioned in a sentence of dialogue or only appeared on screen for a few seconds are not notable. AlistairMcMillan 15:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Fleet Battle Group Omega

I'm genuinely sorry your first experience with Wikipedia has been negative.

Your page was deleted, by another editor I hasten to point out, after the required five days, as the consensus on [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Fleet Battle Group Omega was quite clear. Eight votes to delete, three to keep and only two to merge or redirect. Also I'm sorry but content is changing constantly on Wikipedia, there simply isn't time to notify editors when their contributions are edited or removed.

I made my reasons clear why I thought it should be deleted on that page. That battle group was only mentioned very briefly in dialogue. It never appeared on screen except for that brief ship listing in the screenshot you provided. Even if the battle group had appeared on screen, it isn't likely it would have survived a deletion vote. There are websites dedicated to Star Trek minutiae like this, Wikipedia isn't one of them.

If you re-create the page, it will likely again be nominated for deletion and likely again deleted.

Please read Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) to find an understanding of what is judged notable here. AlistairMcMillan 18:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First edit

To find the date and time of your first edit on wikipedia, just hop over to this site, key in your username and select enwiki_p from the drop down list. Select "Go" and you should have the data on your screen. Hope this helps. In case of any difficulties, just drop me a note. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 09:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Glad you could find it. In case you want to check out other such templates, see Category:User templates. Cheerios! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 14:00, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SECOND EDIT

Joseph, thankyou for all all your help on my requests. i have 3 more questions i hope you can answer for me. 1. Where is the Wikipedia help page on constructing a Sidebar for things like Cities, bands, and albums? 2. What are the factors involved, in getting contents bars on pages that are constructed(or is it just automatic)? 3. On most album pages in Wikipedia i visit, they have profssional reviews (with 5 star ratings) in their side bars, how would one go about researching professional reviews for the sidebar of the desired album i wish to create? Once again thankyou.
Wiki ian 09:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

My reply:

1. For cities in Australia, the general convention is to use the Infobox Australian City template. Check out this page for some examples on how they are used.
2. A contents section gets made automatically in the article when you make a new subsection, provided the page is longer than the normal screen size. To make a new subsection, simply type:
   ==Your title here==
   Your text here
   Once the text overflows the screen and the scroll bars become visible along the sides, you should be able to see the contents box automatically pop up. I hope I didnt make that sound confusing. In simpler terms, ya, it comes automatically. :P
3. About the album stuff, your question is not clear to me. Could you elaborate a bit, perhaps show me an example?

-- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 10:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

replying to your request for more information on my 3rd question. If you look on one of the bottom tabs of album sidebars like Jar of Flies and Wolfmother (album) you see professional comments rating the albums 1 out of 5 stars.In my case i can find reviews but nothing that actually rates 1 out of 5. is there an alternative to displaying the 5 star format? if so what is it? if not where is the best place to look for reviews with such ratings? Cheers Wiki ian 10:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, wiki ian. Take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums, especially the "Professional reviews" section. The Dirt album given there as an example shows the different wasys you can link to the review. Also see the External links section where links to professional reviews are found. Hope this helps! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 11:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello again my friend, can you take a look at New Detention and tell me what i've done wrong with the sidebar, i cant seem to get the alternative cover under the sidebar. Or is more information needed on the page before it will move under the main infobox? Cheers mate. Wiki ian 05:16, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy to see you figuted it out. I found this page just today, and thought maybe you'd like to check it out: WP:SIG. It might help with your earlier question.-- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK} 08:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] THIRD EDIT

Joseph, once again thankyou for all your assistance with Wikipedia. I hope i am not bothering you asking your help on such topics. i have 2 more questions.
1 on user talk pages and discussion pages i notice next to their signiture it sais in brackets (talk) and sometimes (talk|contributions), what do i type to make these appear in my signiture(as all i do at the moment is cut and paste from examples).
2 The more of Wikipedia I explore the more i see examples of advanced editing, and the only way i know how to replicate them is cut & paste, is there a help section on advanced editing within Wikipedia. example, your signiture has different fonts and font colours, how do learn things like this without having to ask you all the time.
Thankyou for all of your time. Wiki ian 00:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

1. See Template talk:User for the low down on various self referencing templates used on wikipedia. You can create a custom signature like mine by creating it on a page like User:Wiki ian/sig, and then using {{subst:user:Wiki ian/sig}} instead of the usual ~~~~ that is used to sign.
2. Most advanced formating that you see, are created using either HTML or CSS. See Help:Editing, and the links on the right pane for some general tips. The colours in my signature are created using HTML. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK} 17:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HM Prison Risdon

Thanks for the image of the prison. I'm impressed your image arrived only a few days after my request. Well done. -- Longhair 21:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Hobart suburbs

Hi Ian, thanks for making the Hobart suburbs navbox. Just a couple of questions - there are some I'm not sure about:

• I don't think places like New Norfolk, Richmond or Margate really count as parts of Hobart
• Kingborough is a municipality, not a suburb or town in itself
• I have never heard of a place called Springfield in or near Hobart!

-- Chuq 09:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

G'day chuq,

first may i just thankyou for asking me first, rather than deleting first, which seems to be a commen practice on Wikipedia. I have the answers to all your questions.

• I am only an amature at the navigation userboxes, pherhaps if you would show me how i could put the suburbs of each council into their relevant section, however this was created as a "greater area of Hobart" and not in a city by city sence(once again only due to my lack of userbox knowledge), so therefor in the sence of the greater are of Hobart yes i would count those..... Doesn't Metro buses travel as far north as Bothwell? if so, could you not count that town as part of the greater area of Hobart aswell? I counted Glenorchy and new norfolk because they both localities, Clarence is the name of a council.

i am not familiar with the Kingborough area, but i knew a kingborough stadium near the cemetary exists so i assumed it was a locality.

• My mother grew up in Springfield. The bus interchange near the new Clive Peters Store is the south eastern boundry, which is why its called Sprinfield exchange. It is more a large suburb that stretches beyind, becasue the mcdonalds near by is considered Moonah and the Carlyle just to the North is Derwent park.

Any queries please contact me, If you're not happy with my reason to include Kingborough please feel free to delete it, as i said i dont know down that way to well. Cheers. Wiki ian 10:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ian, sorry I have taken so long to reply! I sorted out the template into local govt areas today. It was an easy way to settle the "how far out is a suburb" arguments, as I only included localities within Hobart, Glenorchy, Clarence, Brighton and Kingborough. The only one I got rid of (from memory) is Midway Point, which is Sorell council.

I thought Springfield may have been the Springfield Ave area. I'm not really sure, but I'll leave it there for now.

I hope you like the layout! -- Chuq 10:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chigwell Wiki

Couldn't have improved it any better myself. The comparison to main road-brooker highway doesn't really belong here, nor does specifics about house prices. However, I have a relative who has lived there for 40 years, and in the late 90's, the suburb boundary was moved to include them as berridale. I can't find a suburb boundary map for that 90's, but I'm pretty certain of it. I think the old boundary was the main road. I'll do an edit, and if you can find anything to disprove me, by all means, revert it. 202.61.134.116 12:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tables

Hi Ian,

The only tricky part of the template is the table. There are a few ways of doing it - this page Help:Table is probably the most useful. If in doubt, just copy the template to a page under your user page (User:Wiki ian/testing or something like that) and play about with it! -- Chuq 10:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)