User talk:GinaVig

Hello, GinaVig and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are interested in learning more about contributing, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Red Director (talk) 14:41, 24 May 2018 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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A page you started (Katberg Formation) has been reviewed!

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Use of navbox templates

Hi GinaVig. Your recent edit to Dwyka Group included adding a navbox. That is a good thing generally, and thanks for doing it, but it seems you are not yet familiar with the way it is intended to be done. Not a problem, we all learn these things some time. We have a process called transclusion, which takes the content of a template and adds it to the page when it is rendered into html. When transcluding a template like {{Major African geological formations}}, one does not copy paste the contents of the navbox from one page to another. This has the disadvantage of isolating that version from the master copy, and if the master template is updated, the pasted version will be out of date. Unfortunately I am an old school editor and know the source editing system much, much better than Visual Editor, which I think you probably have used, so don't know how to explain how to do the templates correctly in VE, but am pinging WhatamIdoing who is likely to be able to help you more efficiently. In source editor we would just type in the code {{Major African geological formations}} in the right place, which incidentally, is below the See also section, and the software does the rest. Geology of Southern Africa is one of my peripheral interests, so if you need any help with coding problems feel free to give me a shout. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 17:09, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, yes, it's very easy. Don't copy the navigational box ("navbox") itself. First, you need to find out the name of the navbox you want. Peter says this one is called "Major African geological formations". Then, in the visual editor, put your cursor where you want it to end up, and go to the menu to Insert > Template. It'll ask for the name, and you type (or paste) the name in. Click the button to "add template" when you've found the correct one in the list of search results, and then the blue button to "Insert" it into the page. (If it's not in the right spot, you can drag it to the place you want later.)

We use this system (putting in the name of the central copy, rather than a copy of the current version) so that people can change the central version and have everything update easily at all the copies.

It sounds like you're doing some good work. Thanks for your contributions! WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:29, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

		The Geology Barnstar
		For your excellent work on the Paleontology and Geology of South Africa, especially the Assemblage Zones of the Permo-Triassic! Tisquesusa (talk) 19:43, 15 March 2019 (UTC)