User talk:Lisaseventyfive

KFP[edit]

Hello Lisaseventyfive, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your edits (Henderson Street). I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. If you have any questions about editing or other Wikipedia matters, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --KFP (contact | edits) 20:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome and introduction[edit]

Hi, Lisaseventyfive. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 21:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Lisaseventyfive/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

-- Chzz ► 21:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Henderson Street references[edit]

Hi there.

It's better, in references, to link on the actual name of the referenced item - instead of showing the URL of it.

For example, instead of putting http://www.google.com I would write [http://www.google.com This is Google] - which would display like this: This is Google.

Also, you can use a reference many times, by 'naming' it - instead of putting 'see reference 8'. For example,

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag).

Please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

I've just edited the article, and formatted a few refs in this way; please look at this edit - I hope it will make sense.

I will try to do more, some time - but I wondered if you might want to try it, yourself.

Cheers, Chzz ► 21:22, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed you working on it. FANTASTIC! Chzz ► 22:38, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The best way to contact Chzz is IRC (text-chat), here · Second-best is my talk page · Third-best is email Chzz

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Hellooooooo![edit]

Hi Lisaseventyfive, I'm "Pesky", and although I've technically been around for a while, I'm actually pretty much a newbie, having had a nearly-five-years WikiBreak after my first article. Chzz has asked me to pop over and take a look at Henderson Street ... I have to say, I'm impressed! You have clearly been doing absolute masses of good work on this :o) Chzz is an amazing mentor; taught me everything I know about refs and suchlike. I will probably wander through Henderson Street doing little dinky cleany-up bits of copyediting as and where I see something that can be 'tweaked' to good effect. Pesky (talk) 07:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've whisked through Henderson Street with a broom, and done a bit of sweeping up around the corners, evicting the tramps, and dusting off the stonework, lol! Mostly just little punctuation thingies and wossnames, but a couple of re-jigged sentences and one para that I chopped about and put back together in a different order as it seemed to make it read more fluently (and kept it reading in chronological order, as well). I haven't touched any of the refs (haven't even looked at them) apart from inserting an odd space-after-comma here and there. If you need any help with formatting and tidying refs, learn from Chzz's stuff and the ref templates, and remember you can always chat to him 'live' on IRC if needed! I could go through all the refs with you and show you how and what to tweak as and when needed, but Chzz will be better at that than I am. :o) Pesky (talk) 15:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

+Nominated as a "Did you know..." - Template_talk:Did_you_know#Henderson_Street. Unfortunately, it should've been nominated within 5 days of going live, and I only thought of it just now, at 8 days - but, it's worth asking. Chzz ► 17:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problems[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:Henderson Street Simpson Building Detail.JPG, File:Henderson,Giles Street The Vaults.JPG, and File:Henderson Street Simpson Building & Shore view.JPG. I noticed that the files' description pages currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create these files yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained them from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 22:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If the files are already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 22:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

photo copyrights[edit]

HI Logan, All photos displayed on the Henderson Street article were taken by me (so, I own the copyright). I've got no problem with other people making use of them. I must have made some mistake when uploading them, in terms of making that clear, sorry. But, I'm not sure how to fix it. I know you sent some through some guidelines of where to look and what to do but, as I'm new to this - I'm not very confident about doing it right.(Obviously, I don't want my pictures deleted - esp as I can guarantee they aren't violating someone elses copyright). Can you help me out? Many thanks. Lisaseventyfive (talk) 12:35, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you took the photos, all you need to do is edit the file descriptions and say "I took these photos - they are my work," or something to that effect. Just including a {{self}} license is usually not enough to imply that you are the originator of those photos. Let me know if you need any more help! Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 13:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lisaseventyfive, I just saw your edit on File:Henderson Street Simpson Building Detail.JPG - and that's great; perfect. I removed the deletion tag from that one. Please add similar info on the other pics - thanks very much.

Also - re. the article - there were some issues raised in the "Did You Know" nomination - the reviewer 'tagged' some parts as 'citation required' etc.

I added a few references, where I could - but for some other parts, I had to remove small pieces, as I could not find references - they can, of course, be added back with refs later.

Fact is, it cannot be accepted as 'did you know' if there are any tags on the article (ie 'citation required', 'dead link', etc) - so that's why I removed some. Hope you understand. You can, of course, see everything I did in the page history. Cheers, Chzz ► 18:58, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article has now been approved for "Did you know..." [1] and should appear on the main page of Wikipedia at some time in the next few days. Congratulations.

Once it enters the DYK queue, it'll be listed on Template:Did you know/Queue, which will show what date/time it will appear. You'll also get a notification here, on your user talk page. Chzz ► 20:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Chzz ► 22:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting help[edit]

Hi. I wonder, could you possibly help me with something? As part of a liaison between Wikipedia and some US universities, students are writing articles as part of their course.

I know...it's not your subject area. However, you're clearly a genius and master Wikipedian...therefore...please please have a look at two articles, and provide any feedback/comments etc on the talk page

Note: the main idea is to suggest things on the talk, to the students - it's fine to edit the page, of course, but the more important - bigger picture - is to help 'em get more from their Wikipedia experience...hence, if you can show them how to make it better...that would be SuperPerfectAndWonderful.

California Proposition 19 (2010) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Education policy in Brazil (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Anything - any comments at all - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chzz ► 03:54, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Henderson Street[edit]

On 16 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Henderson Street, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Neptune, god of the sea, can be found in Henderson Street, Edinburgh? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks from Elizabetsyatbu[edit]

Hi! Thank-you for your comments on my article, Education policy in Brazil. Getting interaction from other people definitely made this a more enjoyable project. I tried to address your comments, and plan to put some more work in this weekend, maybe even take the construction sign down. Let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks again. Elizabetsyatbu (talk) 21:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Categories[edit]

Hi there. Wikipedia:Categorization explains the approach to using categories. Under the heading "Categorizing pages" you will see "Each page should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C." The article Henderson Street is in "Streets in Edinburgh", "Leith", and "History of Edinburgh", all of which are subcategories of Category:Edinburgh, so it doesn't need to be in Category:Edinburgh as well. Hope that's clear but let me know if not. Thanks for an interesting article! Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:21, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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