User talk:Powderbark2

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[edit] Adding ref tags to Elizabeth Durack

Please don't just put tags at random into the article. The <references/> tag actually places the list of references into the article - adding it several times makes no sense at all. --Alvestrand 12:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ref tags in article on Elizabeth Durack

Thanks Alvestrand for tidying up the article a bit.more to say on this topic but will leave it at that for the time being Powderbark2 02:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Maybe give all this a read first?

Welcome!

Hello, Powderbark2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! SatuSuro 03:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Hi Powderbark, sorry I've been so slow to respond but an exam and a major assignment in real life has been limiting my time on here quite significantly. With linking of articles, all you have to do is put two square brackets around them. For instance if you enter (just choosing a subject and location at random) "Salisbury is a [[suburb]] in [[Adelaide, South Australia]].", the result is:

Salisbury is a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia.

If you want to be more sophisticated you put a vertical bar (or "pipe") after the name inside the square brackets, and put the text you want to be seen. So for example in the above, you might want suburb to link to List of Adelaide suburbs, and "Adelaide" and "South Australia" to have separate links. So "Salisbury is a [[List of Adelaide suburbs|suburb]] in [[Adelaide, South Australia|Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]." will produce:

Salisbury is a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia.

A very good tutorial on this and on referencing which goes into more detail can be found at Help:Contents/Links. Hope this helps :) Orderinchaos 06:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] It all takes time

Hey - there are a few tricks worth knowing - just dont worry if some get a bit impatient - it takes all kinds :) cheers SatuSuro 00:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

And they below just prove the point SatuSuro 23:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

User pages are really of the least importance - WP:Civility, and WP:AGF, and being able to cope with fellow human beings on wikipedia are probably higher things to aspire to SatuSuro 03:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

one longhorn for the greenhorn to practice on. Gnangarra 03:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Your UP doesnt make the user its your contributions, we are here to help just ask Gnangarra 03:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your User Page

Anyone can have a user pages, yes that means you! Just go to your user page, click "edit this page" at the top of the screen, add what text you want in there, and then click "save page" at the bottom of the screen, you may wish to provide an edit summary with your edit too. Twenty Years 08:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion - I deleted it because you'd accidentally posted to it instead of my talk page when you were starting out, and it did make it there eventually, so I thought I'd delete it as a courtesy so that you could create your user page when you were ready. (There are limited grounds for deleting a page as an admin, "housekeeping" would probably have made more sense in retrospect...) Twenty Years has it exactly right, anyone can create a user page. The only suggestion I make is avoid any *directly* identifying information about yourself because although you can add or remove information to the page at any time, it's still there in the page history somewhere. Orderinchaos 08:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

If you ever need some help, you can swing by my talk page too! Silly OIC has decided to do "real life" things. aliasd·U·T 11:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elizabeth Durack

Great work. —Moondyne 04:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify - stub class is for something like this - from there it goes through start-class (an incomplete article) to B-class (a complete article with several references, suitable for many purposes but still below the highest standards possible), then one can take it to Good Article Candidates to see if it can be passed as a Good Article (per "What is a good article?". From there, the next step is Featured Article - which just under 0.1% of Wikipedia's articles have attained. With appropriate research though FA is entirely possible - just a matter of ensuring it meets the criteria. WP:AUS/A#Quality_scale is also a good read. (Note that A-class is ignored by many editors, many articles tend to leap straight from B or GA to FA via a peer review process.) Orderinchaos 08:33, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Basically, im creating the article in a sandbox, and then copying it across to mainspace when it is up to a good standard, ill get some others to look at it before i copy it too, to ensure few errors. Twenty Years 14:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)