User talk:EJohnTowse

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Hello, EJohnTowse, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Incident pit. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question.
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If you are John Towse of BSAC, then doubly welcome to Wikipedia! I've done my best to tidy the articles that were causing you problems. I hope they are reading better now. I should say that the text you contributed to Incident pit may be copyrighted (to yourself, I assume) and you should realise that by placing it on Wikipedia, you're releasing it under a free licence. I hope that's what you intended. The article at present is lacking the diagram of the incident pit. I could "cook one up" to try to match the description, but it would be far easier if you were able to point me to an existing image that I could model from. Again, welcome! RexxS (talk) 19:31, 20 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you RexxS. I have a colour diagram of the Incident Pit that I used in the 1973 conference.
 * Since I am very new to Wikipedia I find it very confusing and all attempts to add the illustration have failed so far!
 * It must be easier than this?
 * EJohnTowse (talk • contribs) 21:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi John - I've taken the liberty of moving your reply here so that our conversation stays together - I hope you don't mind. Thanks for taking the time to find my talk page, by the way. Your talk page (here) is on my watchlist for a while, so you can reply here and I'll see it and reply to you here as well. That way you'll have a complete conversation that you can refer to.
 * I'll do my best to help you through the first steps in Wikipedia, as there is a bit of a learning curve! Unfortunately, there's no way to include an external image in an article, so all images have to be uploaded first either to Wikpedia or to Wikimedia Commons. The simplest thing to do is to look in the toolbox on the left side of this page. There's a link to upload a file (or you can just click the link here). Do your best to follow the instructions and get your file uploaded to Wikipedia (not Commons) with a licence of some sort. Then message me here and I'll see if I need to tidy up the resulting file page. If you upload to Wikipedia (not Commons), I'll be able to see from your contribution history where you uploaded it. I can show you afterwards how to place the image in Incident pit. Anyway, try not to get frustrated with the technology here, I promise it gets easier! Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:35, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi John, you did well to get the file uploaded to Commons. You now have the same username (EJohnTowse) registered at Commons, so I can find your contributions there if needed. I've added the image to the Category:Underwater diving, so that it can be more easily found by others. I've also just cropped the image to remove the border, as the convention is not to have borders as part of an image. As you can see they are normally added via the container within the article. --RexxS (talk) 22:58, 21 September 2011 (UTC)