Mehrshad006

Article Page for Group Project

Hey Mehrshad, I set up a skeleton for us to work on. It seems this is not a "live" page, but we can make it live once we are well developed.For quick access, links are in the table on the course page. Also, here: our rockin' article —Preceding undated comment added 22:29, 3 April 2011 (UTC).

Other Stuff

Hello Mehrshad, My first tip is to sign your comments on talk pages with four tildes. This is a tilde ~. When you add four of them, the Wikipedia software adds your signature, plus the date and time. You don't need to sign edits you make to articles, but instead, you should make a brief remark called an edit summary. Explain what you are doing. Adding referenced content. Removing unreferenced content. Correcting a typographical error. And so on.

Are you planning to start a new article or work on improving an existing one? References are very important, and our job as editors is to describe what reliable sources say, as opposed to writing our own opinion or our own original research. "Wikifying" is also important. Let's say you quote a well-known expert in an article. That person will probably have a Wikipedia article. You can link to that person's article by placing double square brackets around the name. That will create a clickable link to that expert's article. The same goes for concepts, places, notable books, organizations, legal cases, and so on. Link to them if they are important core principles relevant to the article content. You don't need to link to obvious things, though. For example, you don't need to link to environment every time the word is mentioned in an environmental article. If there is no Wikipedia article on some important element of your article, consider that an excellent opportunity to create a new article. You can still create the link with the double square brackets. However, it will create a "red link", which is a reminder to you and other editors that a new article is needed.

I hope these comments are helpful, and I encourage you to ask follow-up questions. Happy to help a fellow USF student. Cullen328 (talk) 01:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC) Hello Jim, Thank you for your respond. I am planning to start a new article. I have some topics that migth work on one of them.1) Noise pollution in California. 2) Hazardous materials transportation. 3) California smog check regulations. 4) Texas vs. EPA. I search a little bit about texas vs EPA. Please if you have any comments let me know.thanks.(````) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.202.150.211 (talk) 21:52, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

On smog regulations, see California Air Resources Board. Cullen328 (talk) 23:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

On hazardous materials transportation, see Dangerous goods. Cullen328 (talk) 23:24, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

On noise pollution in California, see Noise pollution, which as some info about Oregon and the UK. You would need to make a case as for why California needs its own noise pollution article. Is it different in California as compared to Nevada or Oregon? Are the regulations that unique? Cullen328 (talk) 23:27, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Online ambassador

Hey there! I'd be happy to help out; have you read the Public Policy tutorials yet? Ironholds (talk) 14:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC) Yes I did. I chose some topics for wiki if you have any advise let me konw.thanks 1)noise pollution in california.2) hazardous materials transportation.3) california smog check regulation.4) texas vs. epa.(138.202.150.169 (talk) 01:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC))

Sandbox

Hello Mehrshad, Please let me know the location of the sandbox page for your team's article. Thanks. Cullen328 (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Article draft

Hello, I recommend that you move your article draft to your sandbox. You can "cut and paste". Your userpage should be about you as a Wikipedian. The formatting looked bad because you had spaces at the beginning of lines. Text needs to start each line, or it is displayed with a box around it. I encourage you to write as much as possible, and not worry too much how it looks. I will be happy to help you wuth the formatting. Good luck! Cullen328 (talk) 02:22, 19 April 2011 (UTC)