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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)

[edit] December 2007

  1. Requests for adminship
  2. Centralised discussions
  3. MediaWiki:Recentchangestext
  4. Other places to visit

[edit] January 2008

If you are unsure of how to create references, you may find this tool very useful, as it will create all the necessary reference code from just a few details you supply.

User:Blinklmc

subst:User:TomasBat/Welcome

[specify] Use this tag for information that needs citations to make it complete, or quotations that are used without citations, as per Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false, especially in the case of biographies of living people (see this section of WP:3RR as well). Otherwise please use {{verify source}}.

Regarding the unsourced or poorly sourced information:

  1. if it is likely true, but needs specificity, you may use {{specify}}
  2. if it is not doubtful, you may use {{fact}} or {{citequote}} tag to ask for better citation in order to make the article complete.
  3. if it is doubtful but not too harmful to the whole article, you may use {{verify source}} tag to ask for source verification.
  4. If it is doubtful and (quite) highly harmful, you may move it to the talk page and ask for a source.
  5. If it is very doubtful and very harmful, you may remove it directly without the need of moving it to the talk page first.

To find all the articles that use this template, please visit What links here. For articles which lack sources, please visit Category:Articles lacking sources.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.


[edit] See also

  • {{Cite}} (deprecated)
  • {{Citequote}}, tagging a request for citation, used for quotaions that needs citations to make it complete, but not for seemingly doubtful or false texts
  • {{Request quote}}, tagging a request for quoting inaccessible source, used for requesting a direct quote from the cited source for verification
  • {{Verify source}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
  • {{Verify credibility}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
  • {{Citecheck}}, popping up a box saying an article or section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
  • {{Not verified}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has not been verified and may not be reliable
  • {{Unreferenced}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has no citation or reference for its information