User talk:BookPortal

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Maryn mckenna
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Speedy deletion nomination of Maryn mckenna


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Can I edit it before it gets deleted? BookPortal (talk) 16:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notification for March 19
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Your submission at Articles for creation: MarynMcKennaDraft (March 19)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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KylieTastic (talk) 19:04, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Revising Maryn McKenna article
Thanks for your note today. I'm glad that I could help with the Maryn McKenna article.

I have looked at the Maryn McKenna Draft. You are on the right track with the additional information included in it. With regard to your comment, "Perhaps you can use some of the info from the draft to put on the page," those additions to the existing article would be better done by you than by me. I say that for two reasons:


 * 1) You know which information came from which source; I don't.
 * 2) If you want to continue to write and edit on Wikipedia, you need to get used to doing so in Wikipedia style. That will result in more satisfaction and less frustration. (I say that from first-hand knowledge. I struggled with conforming to what was expected on WP and at one point quit writing and editing for awhile. Then I settled in, and now I enjoy it.)

I see that you have four references for the draft. They appear to be reliable, according to WP guidelines. Blogs are normally not considered appropriate, but I think that one with the National Geographic name probably would be an exception.

Having said that, I will point out two changes that you need to make with your use of references:


 * 1) References should be in-line, rather than at the end of the text. For example, the University of Florida reference should appear in the text at the end of the material that came from it. If you do that in the Edit window, then the page will display the number 1 at that spot. Do the same for all references. Wikipedia's software will automatically supply numbers starting at the top of the page -- 1 for the first reference, 2 for the second, etc.


 * 2) References should be formatted according to WP style. The best way to do that is to use templates for citations. When you are in the Edit window, do you see at the upper left a box with "Templates" in it? If not, click on "Cite" at the top; then "Templates" should appear at the upper left. When you click on "Templates," you'll see four options: Cite Web, Cite News, Cite Book, Cite Journal. All of the references you have in the draft would use Cite Web. You should at least fill the URL, Title, and Website Name boxes and click the Access Date icon to show the current date. That will format your references appropriately. The other templates are used similarly, but I won't go into them now, since your current references in the draft are all from websites.

Take a look at the material I added to the published McKenna article. You'll see how references look when the templates are used.

I realize that I have gone over a lot of material here. I hope it will be useful to you. Some things I learned via tips from others on WP; other things I have learned from trial and error. If you have questions, please let me know. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:21, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event
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Advice
Hello, BookPortal-san!! I am a Japanese Wikipedian. I saw your Japanese userpage. Your Japanese is verry good. But I suggest better words.

あなたが Wikipedia で素晴らしい活動をされることを期待しています! -- Kibé, Shuichi (talk) 09:50, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:MarynMcKennaDraft


Hello, BookPortal. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "MarynMcKennaDraft".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. TopCipher (talk) 14:49, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

The photo thing
It´s not the easiest thing to accomplish around here, but it can be done. Here is a discussion where the subject of an article wished to donate a photo of himself, and he managed: Talk:Adam_Conover Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:52, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Taking it to the next level...
Are you really smart?

Are you bored?

Would you like to learn a programming language?

Wikipedia is a great place to learn JavaScript.

How?

You can practice writing user scripts and/or gadgets for Wikipedia.

JavaScript is used to enhance Wikipedia in many ways.

You don't have to download the language, because it is already built-in to your browser and into Wikipedia.

All .js pages in your user space are treated as JavaScript programs. Your common.js page, and your skin-named pages (vector.js, monobook.js, etc.) are live JavaScript programs executed for every page you visit while you are logged on (in the skin you have activated on your account). Those pages could include JavaScript programs, but it is more efficient to import other programs from within those pages.

(Vector is the default skin of Wikipedia).

You can look at other users' common.js and vector.js pages to see how to import programs.

And there are plenty of JavaScript programs listed at User scripts/List. Those are source code, that you can install. But you can also copy and modify them to do something else.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Some pages to take a look at to get started, are:


 * User scripts
 * WikiProject JavaScript
 * Outline of JavaScript
 * Outline of scripts

Judging from your user page, I think you would make some very interesting and creative user scripts.

But I wasn't sure you knew about JavaScript (the next level up in user know-how), and so...

Now you do.

Have fun. The Transhumanist (talk) 22:48, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, BookPortal. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Maryn McKenna, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 14:41, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I wrote the article first and then got in contact with Maryn McKenna to ask for permission to use a photo. She agreed but I now no longer use X formerly known as twitter. So I have no affiliation outside of that.  Book Portal   &    Talk 16:52, 17 March 2016 (UTC) 09:05, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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