User talk:Zebraic

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Hello, Zebraic, 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 place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  HighInBC 17:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Mistaken test1 template removed[1], my mistake. HighInBC 20:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Turnov

Hi. I have done a very small amount of searching on Turnov. It seems that these sites: [2] [3] [4] and [5] all show the city's founding around the 13th century.

I was still wrong in saying that your edit was a test or vandalism. But it appears the article was accurate before your edit. I will readily admit I did very little research to find this information(a brief google search), so if you have a source that contradicts this I would gladly read it.

I am not trying to battle you in any way, I sincerely wish the article to reflect the correct value. Please provide any contrary source you have to help me find the truth. Thanks for bringing this up. HighInBC 22:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] questions

You asked some very good questions on my talk page, it is late now, but in the morning I will answer. HighInBC 06:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, for citing sources these pages are full of stuff: Wikipedia:Citation templates or Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles. As for notices on articles of inacurracies or disuputes look here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes.

For all the templates, here: Wikipedia:Template messages. Enjoy! HighInBC 14:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moveing Hevstäf

I notice you are writing an article, excellent. Instead of writing it on your own userpage you should put it here: User:Zebraic/Hevstäf

By giving it it's own page you can later use the move command to put it into the article namespace when it is done. All of your revision history will come with it.

If you make it on your main page you can only move it with copy and paste which does not preserve the revision history. HighInBC 16:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I should have explained better. First thing, it is not up yet, it is still in your userspace.

Now, your questions:

  1. I moved it by copying the wiki text and pasting it, that is all that can be done for moving part of a page. All of your revision history for that article from before the move is still on your main userpage.
  2. Now, to create a subsection in your userspace just make a link like this: [[User:Zebraic/Pagename]] which will give you a button like this: User:Zebraic/Pagename. Then all you have to do is follow the link to your new blank page.

Now, when you want to release the article you simple click the move button and remove the User:Zebriac/ from the begining and it will go the the article namespace with revision history intact. Hope that explained it all. HighInBC 16:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

If you ever want to get rid of an old subpage you are not using anymore, blank it and put {{db-author}} there and some admin will delete it for you. HighInBC 16:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hevstäf

It is looking great. I reworded it a little, I also changed the referencing style a bit, this system works very well, please make sure I have the ref tags in the right spot. I also used html comment tags to hide editor comments and the empty header, it is visible in edit mode but not when viewing the article. HighInBC 23:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. I was wondering how to make those references more clean, and if I had done them right. So basically you're using a footnote system, right? That completely works for me. I shall do all my articles this way! -Zebraic 23:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Original research

When working on the etymology of the name, or anything else it is important to take the WP:OR policy into account. Any information you put forth needs to come from an existing, published, third party source(Third party to both you and the subject). It also needs to meet Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Also, Wikipedia cannot use itself as a reference as the point of a reference is to confirm the encyclopedia's credibility with an outside source. The two citations you have given seem to meet reliable sources so that helps the article alot.

This may all seem like alot, but once you have it in the article namespace other editors will help. They will help now if you let them know about it and invite them. It is already better than alot of articles we keep. Doing great. HighInBC 23:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep, again, thanks. The 'etymology' needs my notes, which are over at my friend's house (wrote down some linguistic stuff, 'though I am no linguist.). Keep in mind that as this article is in the works, I throw in reminders and notes to myself, and continual reformat them. Those reminders will be removed, of course, when I throw it into Wikipedia proper. I will definetely look at the WP:OR policy! -Zebraic 23:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Excellent, keep it up. HighInBC 01:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Czech Rep.

Hello. Yes, I have written the article about Šumava National Park. How do you like the Czech Rep. as a foreigner? Due to diacritics issue I would like to ask you if you can always notice me when you will create a new Czech Rep.-related article. - Darwinek 17:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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