User talk:Etidepeti

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Etidepeti, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] New article

I have redirected the article List of countries by GDP/head, real growth to List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate. Jon513 12:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

you said...

Hey Jon. You just redirected my GDP growth /head page to the GDP growth page. Of course this is a misleading link. I have this excel table created and am trying to find out how to put it on the page. Could you help me?
it seems to me that the articles are the same. The both link to exact same sources. If you think that there is a problem with article (it's name or otherwise) talk about it on the talk page of the article (Talk:List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate). Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions to understand what is a good name for an article.  ::Wikipedia uses it own markup language for tables (see Help:Table) and an excel table is not readily convertible. Again, I suggest that you look over the article List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate and describe on the talk page what you think need improvement. If you need any more help, you can respond on this page and I will respond. Jon513 12:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that very page urged me to create my own one. The page in question lacks correction for population growth, whereas mine does not. Well, that is, if I can manage to upload the table at all. Please help. Thanks

Etienne

it is better to correct and expand an exsiting page than to create your own. However you should discuss on the talk page of the article any major changes before you do them. In this case there may be a problem original Synthesis of data which is prohibited on wikipedia. If you have a source for this correction that would be fine.
as far the the excel chart goes, if you can save the excel file to a HTML file (web page) do so. the cut and page the actual HTML (may require you to right click and open with notepad) to here:User:Etidepeti\table. then at least other people can see what you have done and we can discuss what to do about it. Jon513 13:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
so this is List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate per capita? Jon513 14:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

exactly. What I did is correct the real growth rate (just corrected for inflation) also for population growth. This is a better measure for the increase in average standard of living for a country.

[edit] User:Etidepeti\table

Hi Etienne, I have moved UserEtidepeti\table to User:Etidepeti\table, now it really is in your user space (note the colon after "User"). You can see your user sub pages here. By-the-way, if you want to create tables, this page might be helpful for you. --Van helsing 15:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi thanks. What I found there is how to do it by hand. editing every singe cell is quite time consuming though. Is there no easier way?
I never tried it myself, but maybe this VBA code could do the trick. --Van helsing 15:31, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I was my fault that the subpage was out the userspace. sorry. Jon513 16:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I did the job by hand. I hope it won´t be deleted. Any suggestions?

Well... periods (.) for decimal separators, and linking the country names with "[[" countryname "]]" would be the next step I think. For signing your posts, use: --~~~~ (becomes: --Van helsing 07:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC))