User talk:Wickipond

Request for rename

For your reference, I've added a note to the WP:CHU page requesting your attention. Did you add another request after discovering your first choice was unavailable? Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering about the question above, but I'd also asked at the WP:CHU page. Because you only want the second name, I removed the first from the page. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Help

Sure, no problem. A good place to start would be Wikipedia:Tutorial, which gives some basic information about editing pages. The various symbols are part of wikitext (or "wikimarkup"; the link explains many of the functions). It's basically a simplified form of full HTML. The blue links are for pages within Wikipedia, and to create them, simply put [[ ]] square brackets around the word. So, if I wanted to link to the article on "Germany", I would format it like this: [[Germany]]. The end result is Germany. You can also pipe links, so the destination stays the same, but the link text is different. So for example, this:

I travelled to [[Germany|a very pleasant country]] today

becomes:

I travelled to a very pleasant country today.

This sort of linking is useful when a link is required, but it's piped for readable prose. Basically all the text in the edit box performs a HTML function. A lot of them are explained in the links above. See also Wikipedia:How to edit a page, which contain more information. Hope this helps. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 22:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. :) A purple link indicates that you've visited the page recently. So, the link to my page should be purple, correct? As well as the link to Wikipedia:Changing username. The link to, at random, Astronaut should be pure blue (unless you've visited that page). Is this what you're seeing? Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 22:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

When your account is renamed, it will show an error message (the login details are invalid, or something like that) when you try and login with your old name. At that point, try your new name, and it should work. The bureaucrats are quite quick to rename, so it shouldn't take too long. :) Pleasure to be of help, and my page is always open if you require further assistance. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Wickipond! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current 943 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Shannon Stewart (poet) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)