User talk:Coolli22

Welcome!
Hello, Coolli22, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Sichuan cuisine
Hi Cooli22;

Glad to see that you are taking an interest in Wikipedia, but there are problems with your additions to the Sichuan cuisine article. If you want to make additions, you need to have Reliable sources. There are none for the story about Dongpo Pork, so I removed that material. One good way to get sources is to Google, or in this case, just search Wikipedia. This would get you to the Dongpo pork article, which says that it was not invented by the poet, only named after him.

Wikipedia needs your help, so I hope you will get hooked!

ch (talk) 16:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, I understand that, but can you tell me why did you move my other editions? Thanks Coolli22 (talk) 18:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Coolli22 None of them had sources.
 * Every statement should be followed by a supporting citation; if a group of sentences are all supported by the same source, you can place a single reference after all of them, but you need to have at least one reference per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any statements after the final reference in a paragraph. If you need a refresher on how to add citations, please consult this training module. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ok thanks Coolli22 (talk) 21:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Cooli22, I have removed a portion of a subsequent attempt of yours to add some material to Sichuan cuisine. This time, you provided a citation to a reliable source (progress; yay!), however this source does not back up the claim you were making about sweet and sour flavors, so it had to come out. Please try again, and make sure that whatever content you are trying to add is supported by the source you are citing. If you have questions, feel free to ask below, or you can contact me on my Talk page, or User:Ian (Wiki Ed) on his Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Regarding your recent additions to Sichuan cuisine, I've removed as unsourced. Please see Wikipedia's WP:Verifiability policy for more information about this. Mathglot (talk) 18:16, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Media upload issues at Commons
Hi, I am trying to add my own photos on to the page, but Wiki keeps saying that "We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera..." is there any solutions? my files are in JPG, thank you very much! Coolli22 (talk) 19:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Coolli22, for concerns about uploaded files on Commons, you could start at c:Help:Contents. User:Ian (Wiki Ed) may have more information for you, or a more specific help link about this. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 18:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Coolli22 What's source of the image? Was it a picture you took yourself, with your own camera? Or was it something you found online? If it's the latter, you can't use it unless it's specifically tagged with a free license. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

How to add references
Just a note to thank you again for your edits at Sichuan cuisine. Please don't get discouraged! We need your help, and want get you hooked to improve this and other articles in Chinese regional cuisine. You could make a big difference in a lot of articles without too much work.

In the References section, I added links to the copies of Dunlop and Chiang at the Internet Archive, a tremendously useful site that has free online copies of many books. So to find sources for your dishes, click on the link that takes you to Dunlop or Chiang there and search in it. You might not get a hit on the first try, so you might have to try other phrasing or spelling. Or try the other book. Think of it as a treasure hunt.

Then you can use the "sfnb" below, just changing the page number.

There's a full description at WP:CITESHORT or the main article Help: Shortened Footnotes, but it's easier just to give some examples.

BTW, I have surrounded text with "no wiki" so that it is not formatted, so that you can see the coding (you could also see it in "edit" mode).

For instance, in the Reference section I added:
 * . Internet Archive ONLINE. ,

which would produce
 * . Internet Archive ONLINE.

I also added:
 * . Internet Archive ONLINE

Which produces:
 * . Internet Archive ONLINE

Then to make a footnote reference, in the text insert
 * {{{sfbn|Chiang|1987|p= ?} or {{sfnb|Dunlop|2003| p = 1234}}

which produces
 * {{sfnb|Chiang|1987|p= ??}} and {{sfnb|Dunlop|2003| p = 10234}}

These appear in the reference section, where you click the link to get to the full listing (here the listing is above, but obviously in a real article it would be in the Readings section): {{Reflist-talk}}