User talk:Plado

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Please help me with...How to insert a new piece of information to expand on facts on a page. The html code I am having trouble with when I want to add a paragraph of text and possibly add a photo on the page about the history of Yogurt but I can't fathom how to lay it out or where to place it on the page. Not sure I understand either what this piece about my signature below the line is when it shows Plado (talk) 19:40, 12 March 2017 (UTC) and I don't have a signature.[reply]

Plado (talk) 19:40, 12 March 2017 (UTC) Plado - Mr J Prior[reply]

There's also a 3 minute video about editing Wikipedia here (click on it to enlarge it)

Hi, on Wikipedia, HTML isn't used to edit pages, but a code called Wiki markup (or wikitext or wikicode). There's a long page about this code here, and a shorter cheatsheet here. If you want, you can also use the VisualEditor, which means you can edit without having to learn about this code. I've left a video about editing Wikipedia to the left, and a PDF cheatsheet about wikicode/wikitext to the right. Hopefully this helped, but if it didn't, click here or just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. Seagull123 Φ 20:39, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your explanatory reply. I'm still not happy with the process of adding information. The video was too small to read and the process was still far more complicated than it had been when I first added some information on the page about the history of the British Hillman Minx cars.

I couldn't work out what the pdf document was all about and the language used completely foxed me.  The video stated that when you have finished editing you have to explain what section or something that you have decided to place the edit.  I couldn't find any part of the page I wanted to edit that was the category for my addition of information nor had I got a reference other than my own evidence that I could photograph.  But then I realised that if it was a rigmarole to edit text I'd have no chance adding a photo.  They are going to have to make it far more user friendly for me to be able to add anything to this site.  That has disappointed me as I made donations twice to Wiki but someone has turned the interface into something far more complicated than it used to be.  Not good for me.  Regards J Prior

Please help me with... Please tell me what this means below for your signature please keep it? My signature isn't four tilde signs.

Plado (talk) 21:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Plado, last things first: Your signature isn't four tilde signs, but the wiki software automatically interprets four tildes as a signature and replaces them with your username, a link to your user talk page and a timestamp. That way, others can easily tell that the above message was written by User:Plado (ie, by you) at 21:26 on 3 March 2017 (UTC) - that's very helpful to keep track of longer discussions.

In an attempt to make Wikipedia more user friendly, the Visual Editor was introduced; the old "source" editor still exists, though. You can choose which to be shown as default in the editing preferences ("Editing mode").

The Visual Editor is meant to give a more "what you see is what you get" editing experience, more in line with, say, modern text editors like Word. If you prefer to edit the source code, you may want to check out WP:Cheatsheet which gives codes for various purposes.

Adding images is somewhat tricky due to copyright issues. If you took the photo in question and are OK with releasing it under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify it for any purpose, including commercial purposes, you can upload it to the Wikimedia Commons via their Upload Wizard. The picture tutorial explains how to display the image on Wikipedia once it's uploaded.

Please note that Wikipedia requires reliable published sources, and your own photos probably would not be considered such sources. If there are no other references for the information you want to add beyond images you can take yourself, then unfortunately Wikipedia is not the appropriate venue for the information in question; you may want to write about it on your blog instead. See also WP:No original research.

Another of your questions seems to refer to edit summaries? For the source editor there's a line for the edit summary below the textbox for the page itself; for the Visual Editor you can add a summary when you save the page. Huon (talk) 22:08, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]