Nearlygold

Welcome

Hi, Nearlygold. 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!  Chzz  ►  17:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

ようこそ 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:Nearlygold/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! --  Chzz  ►  17:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

Baran

I've moved the article on Baran to a user subpage, it's User:Nearlygold/baran. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  16:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

IRC

Hi, you got disconnected a few minutes ago, so I will paste the rest of what I said here;

[17:45] <chzz> OK, done - so, what I've done here is, I've moved your article to a subpage.
[17:45] <chzz> Your user page here, should be just for a bit of info about yourself
 (if you wish) - take a look, I've removed the article from there...
[17:45] <chzz> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nearlygold
[17:46] <chzz> ...and I've put the article into a user subpage. It's a bit like a 
folder or directory. So, see;
[17:46] <chzz> [[User:Nearlygold/baran]]
[17:48] <chzz> I've also written a note on your talk page with a link to the new 
location of the article.
[17:48] <chzz> nearlygold have a look at that, and let me know if you understand 
so far. Then I'll help with the article
[17:51] <chzz> OK, so - the article needs a bit of work before it would be accepted 
on Wikipedia. Sure, you could move it to the live area now - but it would get deleted, 
and we don't want that. The article needs some references and other things; if you 
have about 30 minutes to spare, I'll happily explain how you can fix it, and add 
it as a 'live' article. If you don't have time, I'll happily do it for you.

So - same still applies; I'll talk you through it over IRC, or help you via talk pages, or whatever you wish.

You can either;

• Leave a message on my talk page
• Put a {{helpme}} on this page, and get a response from a helper
• talk to us live

Best of luck in whatever you decide,  Chzz  ►  16:56, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Robert J Baran

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Robert J Baran, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Unreferenced WP:BLP

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. —S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 16:26, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Baran

Hi there.

So you have the link to User:Nearlygold/Robert_J_Baran.

To fix up the article, you'll need to add references to [[WP:RS|reliable sources]. I will add information on how to do that, below. Please also read WP:FIRST, which explains a lot about how to make articles. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  00:12, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Nearlygold/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook">
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Spotlight

Hi there. Hopefully you'll remember me, from my trying to help you; well, now it's my turn to ask for help.

I'm trying to help re-launch an idea called "Spotlight". The notion is to select an article and work on it collectively, via live discussion, for one week. If lots of people get involved, it can work really well; in the past, the project died off through lack of participants. Anyone can help out, because that's the whole point - we have many and varied skills, but between us, we can do amazing things. So - please join the channel, and add yourself to the participants in WP:SPOTLIGHT. Thanks for your time!  Chzz  ►  22:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC)