User talk:Ashenderflickin

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Ashenderflickin, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 21:29, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:Marshall W. Mason, director.jpg[edit]

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Tips for references[edit]

Hello,

I'm glad you have found and added more sources (references) for the Marshall W. Mason article; however, I see that an incorrect pattern for creating the code for the references persists, even though I fixed several of them around a day ago. For example, in the References section, we read the following:

15 ^ New York Times. “Obie Awards Presented”. 24 May 1983. [1]

16 ^ New York Times. “Obie Awards Presented”. 24 May 1983. [2]

Links should not appear inside brackets, such as [1] or [2]; instead, those brackets with numbers should not be there, and the links should be reachable by clicking on the title of the article. Based on how you create the code for references, I get the impression that you are not using the user-friendly Cite tool, which is almost always the way to insert references (there are some exceptions). When you are editing an article and you want to insert a reference somewhere, here are some steps that you should typically follow:

Place the cursor where you want to insert the reference.
Notice that at the top of the page there are symbols and words such as B I Advanced, Special Characters, Help, and Cite.
Under B I you should see "Templates". If not, then click on Cite.
Click on Templates, which will show you a menu of citation options.
If you want to use a reference that is on the Internet, choose "cite web".
A web citation box appears. You just have to fill in the fields, but not all of them:
Last name and First name are for the author of the article. Leave blank if no author is specified.
Title is the title of the article. Sometimes there is no clear title on some web pages, in which case you must do what you can because that field must be filled in.
URL is where you must paste the link to the article.
Website can be The New York Times, for example (my point is, don't write what you see at the beginning of the link, so avoid lower case and the dot com, dot net, etc.). So, if it's BBC News, write BBC News and not bbcnews(dot)co(dot)uk
Publisher: unless you are sure who the publisher is, leave blank. Typically I leave that field blank. No problem with that.
Access date: click on the little icon next to it to automatically fill in today's date (UK time) UNLESS the article has a date on it. If you choose Access date, you will notice that the date is not in the American English format; instead, for example, it will show 16 October 2014. If a Wikipedia article is using that format in its references section, then don't change it, but if the American format is being used, then change the provided date in the Access date field manually to October 16, 2014 (using today as an example). Remember, this field should only be used if the web article has no date.
Ref: leave blank. It must be there for a reason, but I've never used it, and I cannot recall ever seeing it being used by anyone else.
Ref name: choose any name that you will then associate with that reference. Keep it short, preferably. Then if you later decide to use that reference again somewhere else in the Wikipedia article, it will be a named reference, which you can retrieve from "Named References" (above, next to "Templates") instead of filling in the whole thing again.
Ref group: leave blank. I've never used it. Others don't use it either. God knows what it's for.
If the web article has a date, choose Show/hide extra fields at the bottom; if not, then choose Insert, to finish.
In the extra fields you will find Date, so fill it in, and then click on Insert to finish. Probably the rest of those extra fields will not be necessary for you, although I sometimes need to specify a language if I'm using a web article that is not in English. Also, sometimes a link doesn't work any more, often called dead links, and these extra fields include a way to show archived versions of those links (I did this once with a link on Mr. Mason's article: see reference 19 "The Mr. Abbott Award").

I hope this helps. Please remember to fix the examples I provided above, which happen to have the same link, by the way. Just fill in the fields once and then you can separately make an edit inserting the reference again using the Named References tool (you will see all of the named references in a list), and take out the extra reference citation, since it's repeated. If you are citing a book, for example, choose the Template cite book, which is easy to use as well. For magazines, use cite journal, but that one is kind of a pain, so I hope you won't run into that situation too often on Wikipedia.

Have a nice day... Dontreader (talk) 18:31, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Book cover for "Creating Life on Stage, A Director's Approach to Working with Actors.jpeg[edit]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 20:56, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Book cover for "Creating Life on Stage, A Director's Approach to Working with Actors.jpeg[edit]

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Thanks for uploading File:Book cover for "Creating Life on Stage, A Director's Approach to Working with Actors.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 20:57, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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