User talk:Judytan

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[edit] Article creation on stub template

I have reverted your changes to Template:Australia-bio-stub as it appears you are beginning to write an article on George Wallace in the template namespace. Please note, to create an article proper, it must be located in the main encyclopedia space. Namespaces are prefixed with the relevant namespace for your conveninence, ie, Talk: User: and so on. Let me know if you need any further assistance. -- Longhair 23:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Wallace Australian Comedian

Hi I posted this article about George Wallace- a very famous Australian comedian of the 1920s-1950s in Australia but I can't find the sub now. What happened?? What did I do wrong? Regards Judy Tanner

I've reverted your edits as they were to a template used for maintenance purposes and not within the encyclopedia as such. If you require your contrubutions, I've pasted them below. Feel free to create this article at George Wallace. -- Longhair 23:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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George Wallace Australian comedian, vaudevillian, film star. Born 4th June 1895 at Aberdeen, NSW Died 19th October 1960 at Kensington, Sydney, NSW.

George Wallace was one of Australia's great comedians. His career spanned four decades from the 1920s to the 1960s and encompassed stage, radio and film. Ken G Hall who directed him in several of his films called George Wallace the finest Australian comedian he had known. George Wallace began life humbly enough.Born in a tent in the middle of winter in the New England region of NSW,the midwife reputedly fed the newborn baby hot porridge to help him survive the freezing temperatures.George turned the resultant damage to his vocal cords to his advantage,and his raucous voice soon became part of the trademark for the "Boy From Bullamakanka". In the 1920s he appeared as part of a duo with Dinks Patterson named Dinkus and Onkus. The pair danced and sang and for someone who looked pretty much like a wharfie with his barrel chest and short legs, George Wallace was always surprisingly acrobatic and light on his feet and the public loved him for his slapstick style and everyman appeal.

Turning solo, Wallace was soon snapped up by the Fuller Circuit in Sydney and from there he moved to the Tivoli. By the 1930s he was considered one of the Big Three in comedy. He wrote all of his own scripts and in 1945 even penned a song which was to become a World War 2 standard "A Brown Slouch Hat with The Side Turned Up". The 1930s saw George turn his talents to film. He starred in "His Royal Highness" (1932); "Harmony Row"(1933);"A Ticket in Tatts"(1934);"Let George Do It"(1938); wrote the script for and starred in"Gone to the Dogs (1939) which were all comedies directed by Ken G Hall and FW Thring. Then a drama "Rats of Tubruk" (1944) and "Wherever She Goes"(1953).

George Wallace has been the subject of a recent documentary "Funny By George" and a stage show about his life.

References and Credits: Bridges Nancye "Curtain Call" Cassell AUstralia. ISBN 0726904651 Funny By George: The George Wallace Story Director Don Percy, Writing Credits Jim Murphy, Australia 1999. Falling On My Left Ear: A Show About George Wallace.Writer/Director Mary-Anne Gifford. 2002.

[edit] George Wallace

Click the red link above to create your article. If you need any further assistance, don't be afraid to ask. Sorry about the name. I just woke up and hadn't had my morning coffee as yet. ;) I assume the current article on George Wallace (comedian) is a different person? -- Longhair 00:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll give you a hand with categorising the article once it's back up. Then you can refer to my changes in the article history to see how easy it is. I'll keep an eye on the article to see how it goes. Thanks for your contributions and for being understanding. It's an honest mistake you made and no real harm has been done. -- Longhair 00:08, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I've categorised George Wallace (Australian comedian) for you. -- Longhair 00:17, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
The help links at the top of this page contain very helpful information on creating new pages. In short, all you need to do is create a new article at the name of the article you intend to write, and edit away. There's a lot to be gained from reading over the help information. Wikipedia is a very big place. Nobody can know all it has to offer without some help. -- Longhair 01:33, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I've made you your own personal sandbox for testing. Feel free to experiment all you like by clicking and editing here. This is your own personal space for experimentation. -- Longhair 01:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing assistance request

[edit] George Wallace (Australian Comedian)

wanting assistance with this article because of the name and number of entries already existing for other George Wallace's and any other advice on template now esisting on that entry.

  • There is already an article for Mr. Wallace at [[1]]. If you want to make a page about a person, but their name is already taken, put their profession at the end of the article name, then include them in the disambiguation page, found at George Wallace (disambiguation). -- DakPowers (Talk) 02:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
    • I just saw my mistake. I'd name the article "George Wallace (Australian comedian). DakPowers (Talk) 02:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Les Tanner

Wanting to paragraph this article and improve layout but not under sub headings and also how to make an external link to The Bulletin magazine, The Age, Press Council

  • To make an external link, type [ and then the link, then space, then the text you want it to show, then ]. Could you elaborate on how you want to improve the article layout?

[edit] Hi Dakpowers

Thanks for being so prompt

[edit] Re George Wallace (Australian Comedian)

I wrote his article the other day.What Im wanting to do is put a disambig tag on the entry because there are several other George Wallace's from around the world on this site and am wanting to link him to Ken G Hall Australian film maker and to Les Tanner Australian cartoonist. Someone linked Les Tanner to George Wallace after I wrote that article but it was to a US senator and not to George Wallace Australian Comedian so had to change.

  • Here is the text you should use for the disambig tag on the page:
This article is about the Australian comedian. For other people with the same name please see George Wallace (disambiguation).
Then, on George Wallace (disambiguation), put something like:

As for linking to other articles, you could put a "See also" section at the bottom of his article, and list whomever you'd like to link him to. -- DakPowers (Talk) 02:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re Les Tanner article

What I mean is how can you improve layout so its not all just one big chunk of text

  • What you could do is separate information into chronological sections, or separate different parts into paragraphs. If you'd like, put a "Biography" header before you launch into his story. Refer to WP:MOS for layout advice and information, it's a very valuable tool.You seem to be doing excellent work with the references, keep it up! -- DakPowers (Talk) 02:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dakpowers

Thankyou. I'm getting better at it as I go along Judytan

  • No problem at all! You're off to an excellent start. Let me know if you have any questions at all, and happy editing! DakPowers (Talk) 02:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)