User talk:CarinJohns

{{helpme}} I did my homework (to make sure I did not miss anything the first time) but I still need some help regarding questions one, two and three. For example, in question three, ten edits to Wikipedia or the article one is trying to publish? I am working on my first article on the America's SAP Users' Group I started building it on my user page under a New Article subpage; when I am done, how do I move it to Wikipedia? I am using fact sheets, overview presentations and annual reports from the user group for my article. Do I have to cite those as sources or just the User Group Name and Contact info? I would like to upload a user group logo to use on the page. When will I be able to do that, after I move it from my user page to Wikipedia? Thank you, CarinJohns (talk) 15:38, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(copied from help desk) Sorry to just dump some homework on you but take a look at Wikipedia:Your first article, WP:CORP and WP:FAQ/Business and WP:RS. In order to upload an image your account needs to be 4 days old with 10 edits. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 16:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to take anything away from Gtstricky's advice (which is very good), I thought I'd let you know that your question at the Help desk received a few more answers. In case you missed it, click here to see it. Best, Zain Ebrahim (talk) 20:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome...

Hello, CarinJohns, 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:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Zain Ebrahim (talk) 15:32, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:CarinJohns/New article[edit]

Hi, if you need help, feel free to ask. You'l need to know some information about Wikipedias guidelines etc. before you move the article into mainspace (into the main section of Wikipedia)... Some of the text of User:CarinJohns/New article looks like WP:COPYVIO (copyright violations) that has been copied from other websites.... Plus, you may need a Fair Use rationale if you wanna upload a logo... depends on the licensing of the logo image... Later! Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 17:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Based on a message that you left on my talk page, I have read over the article you wrote. Just some general concerns:

Don't use ALLCAPS in section headers. This is against the Wikipedia Manual of Style and not standard formatting
The article does not demonstrate how the group is notable. See WP:N. What the article needs to do is show evidence that people who are unconnected to the group have "noted" it extensively, by writing multiple, extenisive works (books, magazine articles, journal articles, newspaper, etc.) that discuss the group, and that those sources can be considered reliable. All of your sources consist of:
- 4 sources from the ASUG website
- The ASUG annual report
- An press-release published at a German news site which lacks ANY authorship, and therefore leads me to believe that the article was written by the company itself.

Since we have no independent confirmation that anyone has written extensively about this group, the article is not ready for publication. You need to find clearly independent sources first, or the article is likely to be deleted as being below standards. Be aware that it is entirely possible that this group will never have the sources necessary to meet those standards. Good luck in finding some, and let me know if you have any other questions. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- - I would get Ling.Nut's opinion on the article, but I now see some genuine third-party sources that show this is notable. I think this is "mainspace ready" now. The advantage of getting to the mainspace is that other editors can work on it as well, which can only improve it. If you need help with the technical aspects of moving the article, I can help you with that. Just a general idea for future improvement: You could possibly work on formatting the references more fully. WP:CITE and WP:CITET has some things to help you out. In general, you want as much bibliographic information for each cite (Author, journal title, article title, date published, date accessed, etc.) as you can find. The WP:CITET page contains citation templates which are really great at organizing this information. But really, I say this is ready for the mainspace. Ask Ling.Nut what he thinks, cuz he's been watching this too, I personally say go for it! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 15:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Autoconfirmed status[edit]

The 4 days and 10 edit requirement only requires that a) it has been more than 4 days since you registered the account and b) that you have an "edit history" with 10 entries in it (see the "my contributions" tab at the top of the page). At the moment of this writing, Your contributions history shows 13 edits. Thus, after 4 days have passed, you should have "autoconfirmed" rights. See this page for more information on all the rights this gives you (the two most important are the right to upload files and the right to move existing pages to a new title). Good luck, and if you have any more questions about editing Wikipedia, drop me a note on my talk page. I'd be glad to help! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 23:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ASUG Notability[edit]

I came here to talk about Notability, and notice that Jayron already has. The article in its current format might simply be deleted. Please read WP:CORP. Almost all of the info is from primary sources—that is, almost all of it is from ASUG itself. The only one that looks like it might be a secondary source is www.finanznachrichten.de. That's a single slender thread in your attempt to establish notability. Without establishing notability, the article will be deleted... Try to find independent books, journal articles etc. that discuss (not merely mention) ASUG. Are you familiar with Google scholar and/or Google books? Those might help...
Don't send the article into mainspace yet. Its life may be in peril. Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 05:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Verifiability[edit]

You don't need to cite everything. Have a look at Wikipedia:Verifiability. I fixed one ref for you to show you how it's done, but not sure if the dashes should be endashes or not. The month/day in the date is only for weekly or daily publicationsLing.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 17:57, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

example[edit]

<ref>[http://searchsap.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid21_gci822718,00.html What is ASUG?]. (2002, May 9). ''SearchSAP.com Definitions.'' Retrieved on 2008-10-18.</ref> Produces What is ASUG?. (2002, May 9). SearchSAP.com Definitions. Retrieved on 2008-10-18.

There is no author for this article, so you use the title (or the first two or three words of the title, if the title is long) in place of the author. This is APA style documentation. It is not the only style, and many styles are acceptable on Wikipedia, but APA is perhaps the most common style, and it is definitely the style I am most familiar with.
Your URL was broken; you had deleted the ".html" from it. I fixed it.
See WP:LINKS (especially How to link) for help forming links in Wikipedia. Notice that the page name goes inside the brackets, after a space. For example, [http://www.google.com Google] produces Google.
Good luck! Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 00:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and move it...[edit]

As I said before, it looks like this is mainspace ready now. It is far from perfect, but then again, that's the idea behind Wikipedia, you want to give other editors, who have different skills than you, to take their attempts at improving this article. I say it is quite ready to move. To do so, here's what you do...

Remove the editorial notes from the top of the page (I will build...)
Use the "move" tab at the top of the page to move the article to the main space. Make the title the "official" name of the group. I would say to be scrupulously certain of spelling and punctuation. Any errors can be fixed, but it is a bit of a minor hassel, so make sure the title is correct.
That's it.

Hope that's of help. If you can't figure it out, let me know, and I'll do it for you... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 21:14, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:ASUG_Logo.jpg)[edit]

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ASUG[edit]

Hey, I moved your article to Americas' SAP Users' Group from where you had made it. I did this because the title you had given it did not comply with standard Wikipedia naming rules for articles:

The name should not include "the" as the first word UNLESS "The" is a formal part of the title... The group is named "Americas' SAP Users' Group" and the The is not part of the title
Your name included a parenthetical (ASUG). In wikipedia, parenthesis in titles are reserved for disambiguation where you need to differentiate between two otherwise identical titles. Consider, for example, John Smith, where you can see there are dozens of articles named after John Smith people, so we need parenthesis to tell them apart.

I also created a redirect page (see WP:REDIRECT) for ASUG, since this seems the common acronym, and no other article was using it. You may, yourself, want to create redirect pages for potential misspellings of the name (such as with and without the apostrophes, or the apostrophes in other places, like America's SAP User's Group or something. If you need help setting these up, let me know! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 23:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Default Links in Wikipedia[edit]

{{helpme}} How do I remove a link that is automatically inserted by Wikipedia but not pointing to the correct article, examples are Don Whittington, ASUG Board member, no relationship to the race car driver by the same name, and Rob Jenkins, also an ASUG member, not the actor his name automatically links to? Thank you. CarinJohns (talk) 12:07, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can just remove the link, but to prevent it from being replaced we need to tag the article accordingly.. can you tell me which article? -- Matthew Glennon (^T/_C\^D) 12:14, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The article is ASUG (Americas' SAP Users' Group) CarinJohns (talk) 11:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dynamic Links in Wikipedia Article[edit]

{{helpme}} How do I remove a link that is automatically inserted by Wikipedia but not pointing to the correct article, examples are Don Whittington, ASUG Board member, no relationship to the race car driver by the same name, and Rob Jenkins, also an ASUG member, not the actor his name automatically links to? Thank you. CarinJohns (talk) 12:07, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can just remove the link, but to prevent it from being replaced we need to tag the article accordingly.. can you tell me which article? -- Matthew Glennon (^T/_C\^D) 12:14, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The article is ASUG (Americas' SAP Users' Group) CarinJohns (talk) 11:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC) Hi again, the names still link to wrong identities; can you please look into it? CarinJohns (talk) 17:59, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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