User talk:Mr.Validation

This is my first note to have created my talk page! ;-]

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Mr.Validation. 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  ►  23:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

ようこそ 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:Mr.Validation/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  ►  23:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

Re. About our group!

When you leave messages, please remember to "sign" your name, by putting ~~~~ (four tilde signs) at the end. This will add your name, and the date and time. You can also do this by clicking the 'sign' button, pictured here.

I have added the above 'welcome' message on the talk page of most of the users that you told me about - Stevenpels (talk · contribs), Insurgent666 (talk · contribs), diazepam92 (talk · contribs), Morphine Pels (talk · contribs), doctor hesabi (talk · contribs), hupaa (talk · contribs) and Great Hunter007 (talk · contribs).

I could not, however, find a user called "persian sky" (or anything similar).

I hope that introduction will make a good starting-point, especially the idea of Play in your user area. For example, create User:USERNAME/test - I suggest that you try it yourself, and encourage the others to make such a test page, and to edit it;

• They can try putting '''something in bold''', or ''italics''.

• Try adding a wikilink such as [[sausage]], or an external link e.g. [http://www.google.com This is Google] - which will look like this; This is Google.

This is a flower

• Add a picture, such as [[file:flower.jpg|thumb|This is a flower]] (shown here)

• Create a == New section heading == and perhaps === Some subheadings ===, and then perhaps look at how references work (shown below).

You may wish to start them off on some edits to Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (e.g. April, May).

The links in the welcome should also help to get started; please contact me on my talk page, where I will be very happy to help more. Best,  Chzz  ►  23:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Mr.Validation/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Persain sky

Hiya, I just had a message, and wrote back to Persain sky (talk · contribs), explaining why I could not find them earlier; their user name is "Persain sky", not "Persian sky".

I've explained that, if they want, they could just create a new account and forget the old one - or, they can just keep the name; it doesn't matter.

We can't delete accounts, because we have to keep the permanent record of who wrote what, for the "creative commons" licencing. It's possible to change a username through WP:CHU but it's a bit complicated; so if a user has very few contributions, it's easier to just create a new account.

Hopefully I explained it clearly enough to them, and wanted to tell you a bit more (in your 'coordinator' role).

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  15:22, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

This is now fixed; they have made Persian sky (talk · contribs) and I've marked Persain sky (talk · contribs) as 'abandoned'. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  16:02, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Resolved

Tips

When you leave a note for another user on their talk page, you should put it in a new section, like this.

To avoid conversations being split over many pages, it is best to reply underneath queries. Then you end up with a threaded conversation, like;

First message here chzz (talk) 00:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply here Mr.Validation (talk) 00:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

More here chzz (talk) 00:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

You indent with the colon character, then two colons, etc. etc.

First message here [[user:chzz|chzz]] ([[user talk:chzz|talk]]) 00:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
:Reply here ~~~~
::More here ~~~~

If the conversation is on your page, rather than the other users talk page, then you may want to let the other user know that you have replied. Go to their talk page, create a new section (called 'Talkback' or something), and put this in,

{{talkback|Mr.Validation}} ~~~~

...which will look like this;

Hello, Mr.Validation. You have new messages at Mr.Validation's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Mr.Validation (talk) 00:10, 1 April 2009

For more, see Wikipedia:Talk page.

This is just tips/guidance - trying to help establish 'good practice' amongst your group.

I hope it is appropriate for me to leave information like this here, for you?  Chzz  ►  19:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

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Dear Caesar u told me why I didn't start editing my page , I and insurgent666 decided to discuss on her user talk  ►  Persian sky (talk) 16:15, 24 June 2010 (UTC)persian sky