Talk:Jon McKenzie

Hi we are two students from the University of Hull at Scarborough; we are creating a Wikipedia article on Professor Jon Mckenzie of New York University who is interested in performance theory. Could anybody point us in the right direction where to go in this article? --Stephanie Pearson (talk) 11:25, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

We have been given Jon Mckenzie as a research subject in which we have to place a Wikipedia page on him on Wikipedia. We have been given him due to his extensive research into performance theory and is a noted writer based on this. he was contributed widely in Theatre and has improved students like us to be able to grasp performance and we would like to honour him by putting up a reference to him on Wikipedia, so that future students may also research into him and get a good indication of his work. Although our research at the moment is limited due to the fact we got him today and we had to create the page then and add to it later, we would appreciate it by advice and patience as we slowly edit the page, once our knowledge has grown, the page will grow. --Stephanie Pearson (talk) 14:24, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have edited my paragraph on McKenzie's influences that I added yesterday as somebody commented that it looked like some of the information was from a original resource. However, all of the information in the middle section is from the same website so can anybody guide me as to the best way of making this clear so that it is does not look like the information is my own? Many thanks, Rachel —Preceding unsigned comment added by RJKing1990 (talk • contribs) 15:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

How can you change the title page name on our Wikipedia page as we have realised he spells his surname McKenzie not Mckenzie. --Stephanie Pearson (talk) 10:39, 22 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I've done it for you. Under the "Page" tab at the top there is a "Move page" function which does the job.  Favonian (talk) 10:57, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

i placed a link to Doorika because in their reference they have Jon McKenzie, however the style of their referencing is incomplete and i cannot find the rest of the information needed for the reference. It is also not mentioned in Jon McKenzies C.V so i am concerned that their information is either wrong or i have missed something. Can someone help me find this information, also how do you insert italics for the title in a reference. --Stephanie Pearson (talk) 16:47, 30 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I found http://www.womenandperformance.org/past.html with Google; this links to the table of contents of each issue, so you might be able to work out which issue number has the Doorika/McKenzie material. For italics, surround the text with two single quotes - see WP:Cheat sheet for a quick formatting guide. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how do you add a picture to a article?
 * See WP:IMAGE and links from there. JohnCD (talk) 18:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Help me we have uploaded a file according to the wiki help on adding an image, it is currently on a file page and we are stuck on how to add it to the article itself. Please help --Stephanie Pearson (talk) 11:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You can add  to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing   with the actual file name of the image, and   with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information. This deals with the mechanics of adding the image, but there is a larger problem. The image is of a living person, and appears to be copyrighted. In order to use an image here it needs to be in the public domain or claimed as fair use of copyright. Photographs of living people are generally not allowed as fair use and, as you may or may not have noticed, the image is tagged with a notice that speaks a bit to the issue. The image has no licensing information nor claim of fair use on it and will be deleted if this is not addressed. If you are in contact with the owner of the image, please see Donating copyrighted materials. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

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why do we have the banner about living persons biography when all our work has referencing and is all true due to the fact that we are being assessed on this. please can you point out what we have done wrong. our tone is neutral and we have fully read and understood the conditions of Wikipedia


 * Don't worry about those; they go on the talk page of every article whose subject is a living person. It's just a reminder that all editors have to be especially careful with these articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:22, 2 November 2010 (UTC)


 * (e/c) You misunderstand. That is a general notice for biographies of living persons. It is placed on the talk page of many, many thousands of biographies, from featured articles to barely sourced stubs, to inform (or remind) people that when they edit the page they must do so with the requirements spoken about in mind. If we wanted to flag that the article has a problem with sourcing, negative content, etc. such notices would not be placed on this talk page but on the article itself, and would not say "this article must adhere to..." but would say something like "this article has problem so and so...''".--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much on your help on our process these past weeks by answering our questions, on behalf of myself and Rachel you have been extremely helpful and we hope our information is useful and interesting to the readers of Wikipedia. This process has been enlightening and i have fully imersed myself in the role as a Wikipedia editor. Once again thank you for your patience and help it has been very much appreciated.--Stephanie Pearson (talk) 22:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)