User talk:Brojohannes

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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. I am working on a biographical entry for Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf that I will put into my sandbox (hopefully I have it figured out) for comments. Brojohannes (talk) 04:56, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

/sandbox   I'm setting up this page for a second, related article to Christian Zinzendorf. This one will be on the German community of Herrnhaag where Christian was the leader in the late 1740s. Brojohannes (talk) 22:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

oops! I thought I was setting up a new page, rather than a continuation of the existing page. Should I put it on a user subpage? help Brojohannes (talk) 23:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, you asked for help without asking a question. What do you want to know? &mdash; neuro  (talk)  23:33, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

helpmeI'm working on three related articles; a biographical entry of an eighteenth-century spiritual leader plus two place articles about spiritual communities associated with him. I've developed the articles on my PC and will transfer them to Wikipedia. So far I've established a sandbox with two user subpages so I'll have separate areas for each article. Is this the right way to do this? Then I want to get feedback on the articles to help improve them. I've prepared the biographical entry to have a list of contents, an explanatory initial paragraph, the box that typically goes on the right side with basic stats and a picture, additional pictures (to be set up through Wikimedia Commons), plus verifying information such as footnotes, references, bibliography, external links and categories. Now I don't know HTML so my major concern is how all this stuff gets set up in the proper Wikimedia format so it looks like a biographical entry. I've looked under "templates" to see if there is a single biographical page template that would include all of these items that I could use to fill in the proper information but if there is I can't locate it. I have the same concerns regarding the two "place" entries, meaning I don't know how to put the information I've prepared into the correct format. This is what I'm seeking help with. Brojohannes (talk) 06:34, 23 January 2009 (UTC)Brojohannes (talk) 20:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC) "Neuro: [message]".Brojohannes (talk) 20:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. However we don't use HTML here on Wikipedia. I suggest Ccopying your entries onto Wikipedia, and an experienced User will come along and make it Wiki-standard. Also try going onto a existing biography (such as Barack Obama and copying the teplate from there, and edit it. Hope this helps! -- Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count ) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 20:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Very helpful. Many thanks. Brojohannes (talk) 21:14, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

helpmeSomehow three blue-dotted boxes are appearing on my article. Each one sets up the paragraph it contains into a single horizontal line rather than keeping it within the margins of the rest of the article. Why is this happening and how can it be eliminated? Many thanks.Brojohannes (talk) 17:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! Make sure there are no spaces before the paragraphs - this will cause the entire paragraph to be displayed in this way. :)  Stwalkerster  [  talk  ]  17:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks!Brojohannes (talk) 17:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC) helpme I'm inserting pictures from Wikimedia Commons into my article but I notice that only the pictures are added, not the captions. Is this normal or is there something I can do to make sure the captions are included? Many thanks. Brojohannes (talk) 17:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC) helpmeI'm ready to put this article currently in my sandbox plus the two related articles currently on my user subpages into the encyclopedia. How do I get it out of the sandbox? Currently my user page says /sandbox. However I'm worried if I edit the page by deleting that, that I'll lose all three articles. I don't want to do anything irreversible. Please advise, and thanks. Brojohannes (talk) 15:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)