User talk:Chillies335

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Chillies335! Thank you for your contributions. I am ThatPeskyCommoner and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 09:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * How to write a great article

Some tips to help you!
Hi, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps.  Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type  on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you. Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 09:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837.

Chzz lives in Footown.

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, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

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

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

Something to make your life easier!
Hi there ! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing!  Pesky  ( talk  …stalk!) 09:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (Smart Citizen Foundation)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (Smart Citizen Foundation), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to include material copied from http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/how-have-you-used-technology-promote-transparency, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. It may contain content taken from other sources as well, including material translated from Spanish.

If you believe that the article is not a problem under our copyright policy, if you are the copyright holder or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:


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While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Because this is a legal matter, we are not able to take chances here. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but we cannot use your proposed rewrite as it does not remove the problem text. For example, your rewrite included this:


 * The source says:


 * Please review Copy-paste. You will need to write an article from scratch unless you verify permission. You cannot copy or closely follow previously published sources, and you can't translate them literally from Spanish to English. While you can and should use information from other sources, you cannot use language from them unless permission is supplied. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC)