User talk:Lepo21

Welcome![edit]

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John Costigan (National Sales Trainer and Motivational Speaker)[edit]

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Welcome from T9[edit]

Hi, Lepo21. 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! Trafford09 (talk) 16:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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:Lepo21/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!

--Trafford09 (talk) 16:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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John_Costigan[edit]

Hi. Got your message you left me. Your User:Lepo21/test is coming along fine.

You asked "How do I put a picture in the little box on the right at the top?". Well, to do this, first you need to locate a suitable picture from somewhere.

One place you can look is Commons, as described in the "Getting started > * edit a page • upload and use images" link included in the Welcome block I posted for you on this page.

However I've looked on Commons, and only this shows up:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Costigan

So you would need to find an image from elsewhere, if you want to put an image into the article (which I agree would be best). Google is a good starting point, I'm sure. Please follow the links, and gen up on the explanations there re Copyright of images.

I'll comment on User:Lepo21/test here shortly. Keep up the good work! Trafford09 (talk) 08:03, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable Sources[edit]

I hope you're enjoying the challenge of creating your first article! There's more than meets the eye, isn't there! Before I tell you of 'one more thing', I must point out that you could always submit your article now at any stage, provided it has at least one 'reliable source'. So, if you feel you've put enough time into the article, we could soon put it live. Once it's live, any other editors can work on it as they see fit, and improve it and make it meet all WP standards.

A point about references. Each statement in an article needs an in-line citation to a Reliable Source (RS). There has to be at least one WP:RS per article. Note that self-published sources, e.g. blogs (see full list) are taboo on WP, so unless we can find an RS for their statements, we can't quote their stmts.. And if we do, other editors may in the future question &/or remove such statements.

I hope you're not daunted by the work involved. I think you'll be rightly proud, once your article's gone properly live. Do drop me another line if you have further queries. Trafford09 (talk) 08:33, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Cropped John Costigan 005.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading File:Cropped John Costigan 005.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 16:07, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg[edit]

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Polly (Parrot) 18:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

John_Costigan lacks good WP:RS[edit]

Hi. Got your message you left me recently. I've reviewed your User:Lepo21/test.

Whilst you could try putting it live now, it would currently meet opposition from other editors, on some aspects, such as the following:

Some may question whether the individual is 'noteworthy'. The leading section would normally include statements to show the person's major achievements & claims to fame. WP:BIO gives more info. on this.

As I explained in my earlier paragraph, a WP article needs at least one RS. If you follow that link, you'll see that 'Reliable' means, amongst other things, not being written or influenced by the person who's the subject of the article (Mr. C.).

Also, the likes of blogs, YouTube, Twitter & LinkedIn are generally considered unsuitable for WP, as they have no independent editorial control and thus risk opposing WP:NPOV. Hence I would advise removal of all such lines from the External Links section.

In the body of the article, any sentence that might be challenged should have one or more WP:References, so that the reader can firstly verify the text that is included in the article and secondly find a starting point for further information. The sections Education to Online Technology, inclusive, make several statements. However none are backed up with in-line reference. Please refer to other WP articles for examples.

Further points re the External Links section. I clicked on the 'http://www.youtube.com/user/jackryanassociates/' link, but just got a set of seemingly inappropriate Channel icons, with message "Invalid username" on a pink line. As for the 'http://www.niu.edu/' link - well, it proves that NIU exists, but does it have info. specific to Mr. C.? If not, it's not a useful link.

So to summarise, I'd suggest the article needs work doing to it. This would best be done before putting it live as, without satisfying at least the notability and (at least one) RS criteria, I fear an editor may in the worst case raise it in WP:Deletion discussions, leading towards its early demise.

All this may seem daunting and yet, if you can do these 2 minimum things, the article should survive:

make a statement that shows the person's sufficiently notable for WP, and
find and include a ref. to an independent RS, to back up the above.

If I can be of further help, please just ask. Best regards, Trafford09 (talk) 10:40, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How to move an article to 'live' status[edit]

Lepo21, as you asked specifically how to do this, the answer is to simply create an article - say John Costigan (Sales Trainer) - by clicking on that WP:red link and then copying and pasting your own prepared article into that.

The reason I'd add the (Sales Trainer) is to avoid confusion with the existing article (established over 3 years) on the Canadian John Costigan.

Oh - just a query - what does 'dba' mean, in your pending article?

But I'd reiterate my advice to improve your article further before making it live. Regards, Trafford09 (talk) 14:33, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg[edit]

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Polly (Parrot) 21:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg[edit]

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:JohnCostiganatHardRockHotel.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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