User talk:Roms69

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to Adam Johnson (writer). Instead of adding more links to the article, why don't you help improve it by adding the information you learn at those websites into the article itself? If you need to point a reader to a website, you can add it as a reference, which I see you know how to do already. Just be sure to write it in your own words rather than cut and paste. I'll post a list of helpful Wikilinks shortly. Regards, Chuckiesdad (talk) 00:49, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello, Roms69! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Chuckiesdad (talk) 00:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Redirect page

Hi Roms69, Jones Lecturer has been created. Creating a redirect page is not diffcult, the instructions are at Help:Redirect. Since you asked, when you work on redirects or disambiguation pages, it's a good idea to look at What Links Here (in the Toolbox on the left side of your screen) and fix any links in other articles that point to the redirect/disambig page instead of the final article. The goal is that redirects are only hit by users who type in that term, and not used as links from other articles.

Here's what I did next. If you will look at the History page for Adam Johnson (writer), you will see that one of your Wikilinks pointed to the new page Jones Lecturer, which was a red link until I created the page. Since Jones Lecturer is now a redirect page, I repointed your Wikilink to the final page Jones Lectureship. I used the piped link option to change the link without changing the visible text. In brief, when I change something, I try to look for any ripple effects and fix anything I break. :)

Thanks for your editing! Regards, Chuckiesdad 16:20, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

I need help with two items.

First, I tried to create a page called "Emporium" which would describe a book. But I accidently named the page "Emporium Short Stories." I'd hoped to use the "short stories part to disambiguate this Emporium from the many others. I don't know how to move a page or change its name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporium_short_stories

Second, I've tried to place an author photo of myself on my wikipedia page, and I found it pretty tricky. The page that describes me is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Johnson_(writer)

The photo I uploaded to wikimedia commons is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Johnson_Writer_Water_Meter.JPG

how the heck do I get that image into a my wikipedia page?

Thanks for all your help Wikipedia community! --Roms69 (talk) 08:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

1. I moved it to Emporium (short stories) and added the entry to the dab page Emporium.
2. I fixed your image. Should become visible once you clear the cache of that page (Ctrl+F5) if you are using Firefox.

--Unpopular Opinion (talk) 10:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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