User talk:Egyptzo

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[edit] Welcome

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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!

There you go -- the standard greeting for all Wikipedia contriobutors once they have signed up and someone has noticed their efforts.

I don't have a lot of time at the moment but just to get you oriented, take a look at some of the links above, and consider the "user page" look for the tab at the top and the discussion page (this page) as your place to communicate to the rest of Wikipedia.

Thanks for your efforts in trying to improve the Ramesses II article. I had to revert the earlier additions I believe you had made because they were lifted more or less directly from other Web pages. The same rule applies to printed books too -- one of the cardinal principles of Wikiedia is that the information be available to everyone for free, and that means that you can't go including copyrighted text from other sources verbatim. So read the source materials and come up with your own wording for things, rather than glomming directly from a text you have read. There's also a general principle of not trying to advocate a particular point of view, so saying something is "the greatest" or "the worst" typically won't wash if it is an unsourced opinion. If you can find someone who actually says that, and you can provide a reference for it, that's valid.

There's more to it that just that, but I am just hoping to get you going in the right direction. I don't want to discourage anyone from contributing to the pages having to do with Ancient Egypt, and things will go easier for everyone if people understand the common principles for making valid contributions to individual articles.

For a good example of what's known as a "Feature Quality" article having to do with Ancient Egypt, see: Ahmose I as a good example. Another one that's close to Feature Quality status is Valley of the Kings.

Cheers!

This last donation was by my own words.

Fair enough. Have you added citations to anything as yet? If not and you are wondering how this is done, take a look at the edit text for Ahmose I and look for the <ref> tags for the format to follow.
To "sign" your messages in this space (or anyone else's user talk space) use 4 tildas at the end, which will be auto converted to your login name and when you submitted the piece. Cheers! Captmondo 16:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh yeah, and by the way, you can use the "User page" (where you currently have "Wellcome"), for pretty much anything you want. It is most commonly used to let other people on Wikipedia know about yourself, and I have sometimes used it as a "sandbox" for trying to figure how to get things to work (like how to write the hieroglyphs that appear in some articles for example).
Good work on the Ramesses II article by the way. Need citations in certain areas still (and not just with the material you added) but it is shaping up well. Cheers! Captmondo 13:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

You've added a lot of material to Ramesses II, however the citation needs to be fuller. When it comes time to edit Ramesses up to featured status, we're going to have to have full citations, including a page number for each citation. Thanatosimii 18:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

How can I add a picture to the article? User: Harioris/Egyptzo 14:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC) 11:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

If it's already been uploaded, just snag the syntax from one of the other picture inserting strings of text already in the article, and edit it around a bit. If it hasn't been uploaded, I'm not sure how to help you, but there should be a faq somewhere. Thanatosimii 20:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. See Wikipedia:Images and the "Picture tutorial" linked above for tips on uploading and placing images in articles. Also, thanks for your info at Talk:Uxmal; I replied there. Let me know if I can be of assistance. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 03:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Please try to add page numbers to your substantial contributions on Ramesses II. Without specific page numbers, it's very difficult to confirm or refute details in a certain book that you cite. Few people have time to go through a 300+ or 400+ book to find the info which you state. Thank You. 24.87.136.31 03:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ramesses II article

Thanks for all the work that you have done on the above article. However, the article is now huge, and contains stuff that should really be in other articles - tomb of Nefertiti, Ramesseum for example. Obviously, this is just my opinion, but is it possible to move that information out of this article, and into the sub-articles, as this avoid repeating information across multiple articles. Cheers Markh 11:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, porhaps you are right about that. But there are also articles as huge as that of Ramesses II., take Thutmose III. as an example.Egyptzo 20:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits made to Rameseses II

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Egyptzo! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule touregypt\.net, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If the link was to an image, please read Wikipedia's image tutorial on how to use a more appropriate method to insert the image into an article. If your link was intended to promote a site you own, are affiliated with, or will make money from inclusion in Wikipedia, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 10:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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