Wikipedia talk:New contributors' help page/Archive 2

Proposed template change

I'm proposing an additional category in the Template:Editabuselinks to reduce the number of posts at WP:AN and WP:AN/I, please feel free to comment here User:Mbisanz/TemplateSandbox. MBisanz ^talk 13:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Page Archived

Hi there,

I just archived this page as it was getting kind of long and old from Wikipedia talk:New contributors' help page to Wikipedia talk:New contributors' help page/Archive 1.

--The Helpful One 22:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I just did Feb. It does not look like the bot is working. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 14:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Archiving!!!!!!!

Hi there,

I think that WP:NCH should be put down to archive to less than a week, as you can see at the moment, it is 143 kilobytes long. while the Wikipedia:Help Desk is 177 kilobytes long and gets archived every few days. Is there a reason why it is only archived every 2 weeks?

Any comments would be appreciated.

--The Helpful One 13:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I hate how long these pages get. Maybe you could get a bnot to archive discussions older than two weeks. Malinaccier (talk) 19:18, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Agree. 5 days would be plenty. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 22:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

• I changed it to 7 day archive to see how it goes.Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 15:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

• It seems the bot was not working. I do not think it was configured correctly. Based on the edit history of the archive page it has always been manual. I set up Miszabot to run and archive over 15 days old. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 18:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Please help publishing my userbox

It's the Tinnitus userbox at here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EinarKramer/Userboxes

EinarKramer (talk) 18:52, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Alrai TV

Alrai TV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moseoudi (talk • contribs) 13:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Baffled

I have written an article. How do I upload it so that it appears in the Wikipedia when someone types in the title on Google. So many people ask this question and get told how to write a good article, how to make sure it doesn't contravene Wiki guidelines, how to use the sandbos, etc ad infinitum. Nowhere does it tell you how to upload the thing. Can anyone help. Please write to dpol@btopenworld.com as I feel I will never be able to find the answer in the untold number of subpages in Wiki. This is far from being an intuitive site. Davpol8112 (talk) 18:13, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Uploading is not necessary - unless you're talking about images. All you need to do is type in the name of the article - if it does not exist (and make sure that it doesn't) it will take you to an empty page with a white box. You simply cut and paste what you've written into the space and hit save. Cheers. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 18:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

The standard advice at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page#uploading article includes: "If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page". Many articles by new users are deleted so we prefer to give more advice when somebody asks how to create an article. If the article is User:Davpol8112 and you are the subject then note that Wikipedia:Autobiography says: "Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is strongly discouraged". PrimeHunter (talk) 21:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Special Trining Program

STP ,Special Training Programme an initiative by CampusConnect from Infosys in collaboration with IEG(Institute of Electronic Governance),JKC(Jawahar Knowledge Center) with the aid of Government of Andhra Pradesh and Rajiv UdyogaSri----- is a training course designed for making the IT future of the world to see to India. It is specially planned to uproot the rural and socially challenged talents in the state and make the leaders for the IT world. r the entiation to start the e training program has very well organised with some of the IT Gaints being the Actrive sponsorers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Identifymecnu (talk • contribs) 14:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Why is Wikipedia so darn complicated?!?

I own a little company called SchoolDesk (www.schooldesk.net), and I wanted to have my company listed in Wikipedia so that if somebody did a search of our name, it would come up with a discription of our company. Is that not easily possible here? From what I can tell, this is all FAR too complicated for the ordinary Schmo to just jump into the sight, make a submition and logout.

So why is it so hard to do here, and is there a better site anyone could recommend to create links to our sites and to increase our SEO rankings?

Thanks!

"That Dumb New Guy" - Rob

Is your company notable? If so, you can request a page. If you're not sure, AboutUs.org is a really interesting place to promote yourself, and it follows the Wiki format. --Haemo (talk) 22:02, 21 April 2008 (UTC)