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Paleorthid's (formerly Henge's) log of tutorial, help, and reference information.

Contents

[edit] May

May 26, 2006:

completed -- 05:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

  1. Wikipedia:Tutorial
  2. Your first article
  3. Sandbox
  4. Criteria for speedy deletion

completed -- 21:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

May 27, 2006:

  1. Citation >> Citing sources >> Citations of generic sources


[edit] June

{{Writing guides}}

Honorifics 
Do not use honorifics or titles such as Mr, Ms, Rev, Doctor, etc.
Links 
Link only one or a few instances of the same term; wikipedia:Links
Unimportant things are important, too 
If you can add interesting links to fringe subjects, do.
Avoiding common mistakes 
try to avoid.
Make a personal copy 
advice re edit wars, revert wars, and staying cool. :Suggest make a personal copy as a subpage of your user page. Then you can carry on improving the article at your own pace. If you like, drop a note on the appropriate talk page to let people know what you're doing.

-- Paleorthid 18:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November

[edit] Working on a statement

Based on the external links policy, with particular attention to No. 5 under "Links normally to be avoided", I moved the [:http://www.live.com commercial link] from the article to talk:article.

per 5: Commercial links can be constructive but not all that often; this situation only occurs when it provides an independent source of encyclopedic content about the subject at the site, but not when the primary purpose of the external site is to sell something related to the Wikipedia article.

Stubby articles tend to attract these types of links because it is far easier to add a link than to add encyclopedic content.

[edit] Tutorials

[edit] Copyright

...if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others

...if you are granted permission post the details of the permission granted at Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission. You should also send a copy of your request and the response to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" where it will be permanently archived. Wikipedia:Example requests for permission

The Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC) has granted permission for use of materials at http://pssac.org in San Joaquin (soil) under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Permission was conveyed November 17, 2006 by Mary Reed, Executive Secretary. A copy of my request and PSSAC's response has been sent to to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" where it will be permanently archived. PSSAC will be credited for their work in the resulting article's references section by stating that it was based on PSSAC's work and is used with PSSAC's permission, and by providing a web link back to: The Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC). -- Paleorthid 15:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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