User talk:Danceswithwords

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello, Danceswithwords, 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:

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Again, welcome! 


Thank you so much for your kind help, BigrTex! I really appreciate it! :) It was very nice of you to help me out.


Template:Helpme!

Can anyone tell me how to include external hyperlinks (such as http://www.michenermuseum.org/bucksartists/artist.php?artist=359) in articles? Also, how do you link to a wiki article that does not have the same exact title as the words you want to link it to?

Thanks to anyone who can help me! Danceswithwords 21:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} is a template, and needs to be spelled exactly the same (in this case the ! threw it off).
As for hyperlinks, if you just put in the hyperlink, it looks like http://www.michenermuseum.org/bucksartists/artist.php?artist=359. If you want to give it a pretty name, format it like [http://www.michenermuseum.org/bucksartists/artist.php?artist=359 pretty name] and it will look like pretty name. Finally, enclosing it just in square brackets makes it look like this: [1].
To link to a wiki article with a different name, use the | character to separate the name of the page you want to go to from the text that you want to show, like [[Main Page|Home]] shows up as Home.
Hope this helps. ~ BigrTex 21:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Go for it

I encourage you to add what you have, especially information sources. I doubt that anyone is mad - nobody has tried to have the article deleted yet, and most editors have their first attempt at an article deleted. Continue to add/edit material, watch what other editors do, and ask questions. We don't expect new users to know all of the rules, and we try not to bite new users.

Let me know if you have any questions as you work on the article. I have it on my watchlist (and other editors may too), which I check every couple of hours when I'm around. It lets me know if there have been changes to the articles I've marked with the watch tab at the top of the page. ~ BigrTex 15:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diana Vincent

It's looking good. I took some of the external links that you had in the article and turned them into footnoted references by adding <ref> markup. I then added the references section at the bottom of the article. I am not as good as I should be about formatting references. There's a guideline at Wikipedia:Citing sources if you want to look at it.

The more third party reliable sources that you can find on Diana Vincent, the better the article will be. Do you know of any newspaper or magazine stories that have been done on her or interviews with her? ~ BigrTex 02:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References, Guidelines, Next steps

There are a lot of guidelines. Don't worry about learning them all. One of the basic ones (known as the 5 Pillars) is Ignore all rules which I interpret as: as don't stress about the nit-picky details if it would stop you from your work to improve the article(s) you work on. Try to give as much information as possible about things like references, and someone will come along and clean it up if it is important to do so - or if it is something they enjoy doing.

As for the magazine articles and interviews, I would suggest listing ones that you know on the discussion/talk page of the article - at least name and issue, but page number and/or article name would also help. If you can put your hands on a couple of them, especially ones that mention the two awards shows, then add <ref> tags like I did to the ones already in the article with the information about the article (publication name and issue). Verifiability is one of Wikipedia's three core content policies - it basically boils down to that if in X years someone else wants to make sure the content of the article is true and we aren't around, they should be able to find the old issue of Vogue and verify the content.

I'm happy to continue helping with formatting and explanations. It's fun watching articles gel. Eventually, you may want to try to bring the article up to Good or Featured status (Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured) although many editors, including myself, never have. If something like that is of interest to you, I think the next thing to think about after references would be to get an image for the page. I fear that I've already overwhelmed you with information here, so let me know when you're ready to learn about images. ~ BigrTex 14:40, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your help request on WT:VAN

I checked your block log and there is no trace of a block. I assume someone with your IP address vandalized Wikipedia and you got caught in crossfire (It's called an auto-block). Don't worry about it, as far as I can tell you haven't done anything wrong :). If that happens again, follow the instructions on the block message to request an unblock. If you need further help, please don't hesitate to post on my talk page or to put {{helpme}} followed by your question on this page. -- lucasbfr talk 20:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Hey

How are you doing? I just realized that I hadn't heard from you for a couple of weeks. Hope we haven't run you off. ~ BigrTex 21:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)