User talk:Ejcalaunan

Welcome!

Hello, Ejcalaunan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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. Again, welcome! L888Y5 (talk) 22:37, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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Some tips to help you out!
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.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 11:14, 21 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!) 11:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Saint Louis University Laboratory High School


A tag has been placed on Saint Louis University Laboratory High School requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 18:54, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, since I have a special interest in articles on high schools, I rewrote it instead of deleting, removing the copied text, most of which was inappropriate to an article on a school, and rewriting the topics that were suitable.

Do not to copy from a web site, even if you own the copyright and are willing to give us permission according to WP:DCM, for  the tone will not be encyclopedic and the material will not be suitable. (If you do want to license it, you must explicitly license the rights to the material according to our licensing, using the CC-BY-SA and the GNU  licenses, as explained in WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:Donating copyrighted materials; be aware that these licenses  give everyone in the world an irrevocable license to reuse and alter the material, even for commercial purposes.) A WP article needs to be written like an encyclopedia article, not a press release--don't praise the organization- say what they have accomplished. Include only material that would be of interest to a general reader coming across the mention of the subject and wanting the sort of information that would be found in an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only to those associated with the subject, or to prospective students, such as the detailed requirements for admission or the detailed school regulations--that sort of content is considered promotional. Keep in mind that the goal of an encyclopedia is to say things in a concise manner, which is not the style of  press releases or  web sites, which are usually more expansive.

As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know.  DGG ( talk ) 21:14, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Saint Louis University (Baguio).
There are similar problems with the page on Saint Louis University (Baguio). There was an acceptable earlier version this April, and unless you fix the present one, I shall revert to it.
 * 1) You are creating unnecessary articles on the schools  duplicating the content of the main article. This is inappropriate unless you intend to move most of the material on them from the main article. Otherwise, I'll delete them under WP:CSD, duplicate articles.
 * 2) The page on the university has extensive promotional sections on the merits of the school, and the importance of the fields of study to society in general. These are typical promotional techniques, and not acceptable here.
 * 3) The article on the university has an extensive biography of the founder. It does not belong there. It belongs in a separate article (after removing the puffery).
 * 4) There is promotional material and puffery with vague adjectives of praise throughout the article.
 * 5) The sections on the Order and its school system belong in their own articles., not here.
 * 6) Only those people with Wikipedia articles can be listed as noted alumni.
 * 7) We do not use bold face.

other articles

 * 1) Immaculate Conception Catholic School ‎ has the same problems as the university article: outrageous puffery. I'll check for an earlier version. Otherwise I shall simply delete as hopelessly promotional.
 * 2) I removed a highly promotional section you added to Umingan, Pangasinan
 * 3) I've removed inappropriate promotional material you've placed at various pages elsewhere.

Wikipedia may not be used for promotion, and you are an account that has done essentially nothing else. I could block you immediately, and I would, except for two considerations .First, you seem not to have received a formal warning on your user page, though there have been notices on article talk pages. Second, I want your help in cleaning this up. You don't have to help me, as long as you add no more inappropriate material. but at  more promotional edits after the warning below, I'm going to block.

I'll look here for a response.  DGG ( talk ) 23:13, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

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November 2011
This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.  DGG ( talk ) 22:58, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

advice
As you have not responded, I made the appropriate edits to remove promotionalism. I combined all the University pages except the medical school, and edited the high school pages to appropriate contents. I very strongly urge you not to re-add promotional contents, though you are welcome to update the statistics.  DGG ( talk ) 03:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)