User talk:Alexburrage

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:10, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Brad Carson. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

SomeImage.jpg

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! ''Additionally you removed a MUCH better image from the Infobox. Why???'' Zackmann08  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:12, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Brad Carson, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:12, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Brad Carson. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:16, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Brad Carson. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I will make those changes. I want to engage you to address any concerns you have.
Help me understand specific objections. I want to make sure I update this post.

Brad Carson
You have been warned multiple times about your edits on Brad Carson. You tried to say in your edit summary that I need to follow Wikipedia procedure and explain your deletions. You have a grand total of four edits to Wikipedia. YOU are the one not following procedure. You are introducing information that is unsourced. You removed a perfectly good image to replace it with a grainy screenshot (which is not a valid image as it is covered by copyright). You are also removing scontent that is sourced. Continuing to revert edits is vandalism and will result in you being blocked. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:27, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I'm genuinely trying to update this, and would welcome your help. First, the picture is an updated one. It is from C-Span and C-span does not require any license for a federal government hearing picture. I don't want to fight over the picture, just to say that it must be several years old. If its a big deal, leave it. But the BCG senior advisor role (cited), the addition of the primary campaign (cited), the clarification of works written (cited) - all these seem appropriate.

Second, please let me know what citations I overlooked. I've tried to cite everything, but if I missed something or you disagree with cite please let me know so I can fix it. Thanks for your help.

Alexandra


 * Hello Alex. I'm going to try and offer a little help here. Firstly the image. I don't confess to fully understand what is federal and what isn't in the US, but according to C-Span, a licence is required for commercial usage. At Wikipedia we require that content is available for commercial usage (see WP:C). There seems to be a few other strings in that licence. I understand the image you're using claims to be more recent, but in terms of quality? There seems to be no competition.
 * The second most important thing here is referencing (see WP:VNT). Each statement you're adding should be sourced to an independent reliable source (WP:RS), not the thing being referred to. Take a look at the first few changes which don't reference anything, and other changes further down which only vaguely reference the homepage for Transportation Committee, etc. I'd suggest making very small changes at a time, using independent sources for everything which support the fact. Feel free to ask for further help. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:26, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

That's helpful. I will keep the picture, although the other one is freely usable. I understand the point re quality.

I will also try to independently cite each item, going through the list. I will omit things I can't find a cite for. I'd be grateful if you'd ping me here if you think I made a mistake, rather than delete my whole effort. I will promptly fix things. Much obliged. Alexandra
 * That was who offered the feedback, not myself. Also please start signing your post as instructed HERE. -- Zackmann08  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * If I may offer you further advice... You are doing a better job of referencing statements but they are all WP:BAREURLs. I would strongly encourage you to use WP:REFTOOLS to make better references. So for example, instead of:
 * which produces:
 * You would insert:
 * which would produce:
 * Do you see why that looks SO much better? The toolbar makes it super easy to insert the template. Let me know if you have questions. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:06, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you see why that looks SO much better? The toolbar makes it super easy to insert the template. Let me know if you have questions. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:06, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you see why that looks SO much better? The toolbar makes it super easy to insert the template. Let me know if you have questions. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:06, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Helpful point. Will make sure all have the better citation. Appreciate the advice.
 * You are still not WP:SIGNing your post. Please use ~ after your comments. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it, truly. Alexburrage (talk) 22:38, 20 October 2016 (UTC)Alexburrage
 * No worries! We were all new at one point. It takes time but you will learn! I'm going to post something on your talk page in a second. It is a welcome template but I encourage you to take the time and read through each link on it. You don't have to read them all right now... But they will help you TREMENDOUSLY! -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)