User talk:Elkmilok

Your submission at Articles for creation
Thank you for submitting an article at Articles for Creation. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia&. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article and resubmit when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you.  SKATER  Speak. 00:03, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Note
If you click here, one of your questions at the help desk has been answered. This is a courtesy note, but generally you shoud re-visit the page occasionally to see if more comments have been made; you won't be notified each time somone replies. Good luck, hope the answers help. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:24, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: My very unpleasent experiences with Wikipedia

 * Greetings Elkmilok - and a belated welcome to Wikipedia. I've just come across the note you left at the Village pump. Just wanted to say thanks for overcoming your initial disappointment and sticking around. The place needs contributions from serious folk to balance out the more frivolous stuff going down, but unfortunately many from academia are put off by some of the conventions here and time wasted on non-constructive pettiness. But the pros do outweigh the cons. Mostly :) Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 09:18, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation was accepted
Your nomination at Articles for Creation was a success, and Gustavus Sidenberg was created. Thank you for helping Wikipedia! Cyber cobra (talk) 16:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Please continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request.
 * If you would to help us improve this process, please consider

Gustavus Sidenberg
Could you specify a URL at one of the "commercial websites" for the passenger list? --Cyber cobra (talk) 17:05, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * What would the exact Ancestry.com URL be, if you don't mind? --Cyber cobra (talk) 23:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Do you know if Wikipedia has a general policy on citing such sites?
 * For-pay-only sites are fine to cite. If you query is more specific, I'm sure someone would probably answer at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. --Cyber cobra (talk) 00:27, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Signing talk pages
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Reply at the Help Desk
Hi Elkmilok - just to let you know that your question at the Help Desk has received responses. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:44, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Adolph Walter Rich
Hi! You did an excellent job with the Adolph Walter Rich article. I added the defaultsort, categories, and help with the citations. I hope your experiences with Wikipedia will be more pleasant-Thank you-RFD (talk) 12:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC) Many thanks for your comments-
 * on the following questions:

1-If you are doing something with Illinois barns- getting involved with a wikiproject like WikiProject Illinois may be helpful. For myself being part of WikiProject Wisconsin is helpful. 2-You would have to provide information when loading photos as to who owns the phots-copyright laws. 3-The article on Nya Upsala (Wisconsin) is a good example of various ethic groups setting up settlements in Wisconsin so I see no problems with this. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 20:19, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Floquenbeam
Elkmilok, I'm cleaning up my talk page, and wanted to make sure you saw my response to you if you come back later. Here is my response to you on my talk page, from 8 April. If you already saw it there, sorry for the trouble. If not, just click the [show] button. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:38, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments on my problems. I have at still not figured out two things. Frist, where do I find answers to my comments. For example, should you should you respond to this and just say "hi" I understand it would appear somewhere in "My Talk." But there must be more; perhaps no one has ever answered, which is O.K. What I worry about is that they have written me things, and I just do not know where to look for them.

Second,I am still lost on tracing a submission. A few days ago I submitted an item "Adolph Walter Rich." I wish to find out what is happening with it. The help desk says. "Click on my watch list" - I do so, but there is nothing there. So, there is a space which lets me add things to my watch list. So I type in the words, "Adolph Walter Rich." Is this all I have to do? It seems too simple. I think I must have missed a step. Am I correct that all I have to do now is to just keep watching my watch list and acceptance, rejection or other comments will appear there?

Any help you can offer will be appreciated. If you have something to suggest, please try to keep it very simple.

Thanks.

Elkmilok (talk) 18:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Elkmilok,


 * Actually things seem to be going well with your two articles, you may just not know it!


 * Sorry if some of this you already know, and I hope I've made it simple; just take it paragraph by paragraph.


 * For example, consider the message you left me above, on my talk page. when I logged in, I got the orange "new messages" bar.  I could have left you a reply on your talk page.  Then you would get the orange bar.  However, the conversation is disjointed, and difficult to follow.  So, most often, I would just reply to your message on my talk page, as I've done here.  But, then you don't get the orange bar.  In order for you to know I replied (which I think is your main concern), I can leave you a blue talkback message (this is what I've done just now), or I might assume you have my talk page "watchlisted" (see below), and that you'll check in on it from time to time.


 * A watchlist is a list of pages you want to "follow". You get to it by clicking the "my watchlist" at the very top right of any page on Wikipedia, or by clicking here: Special:Watchlist


 * Generally, to be safe, if you leave a message on a page, you'll want to add it to your watchlist (see below) to make sure you see the responses. It sounds slightly complicated, but it isn't once you get the hang of it.


 * So, you probably want to make sure that all pages you edit from now on are added to your watchlist. To do this, first click on "my preferences" at the top right of your page; then choose "watchlist" from among the tabs at the top of the new page; and then make sure the last four boxes are checked ("Add pages I edit/move/delete/create to my watchlist").


 * Unfortunately, this won't add pages you've already edited, so to add those, go to each page (by typing the page name in the search box, or by clicking on a link to the page), and click the "watch" tab at the top of the page. This adds it to your watchlist.  If you want to go to a page listing all the pages you've edited, click on the "my contributions" at the top right of your screen, ot by clicking here: Special:Contributions/Elkmilok.  Then, you can choose which pages to watchlist by clicking on those and clicking the "watch" tab.


 * Your articles are now at Adolph Walter Rich and Gustavus Sidenberg. If you watchlist those pages, you will automatically watchlist their talk pages, where people discuss the article: Talk:Adolph Walter Rich and Talk:Gustavus Sidenberg.  This is where you ask/answer questions, etc.  You may notice that people have been editing/adding to/formatting your articles, which is really the essence of having them on a wiki.


 * I've probably overwhelmed you. You might want to give Tutorial a try, if you want to ease into this a little slower. I'm happy to expound further, if you'd like.


 * Thanks for contributing the two articles, and for not giving up. I hope there is more to come!  Cheers. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:38, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Adding an image
Hey Elkmilok. To add an image to Wikipedia, click "Upload File" (the button is near the bottom of the left column), then select what the image is (the items that qualify are in a list - if you're not sure if yours is free to use you can ask me). To add the file from your computer, then click "Browse" and find it on your machine. Then you can fill out the information like author, source, etc. Then press "Upload File" at the bottom of the page and you're good to go! I'll check in to help fix the image if there are problems, and I can add it to the article. Sheeana Talk 05:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * PS - there's a lot of little things to fix in the article, like adding back all of your page numbers. Don't worry, I'll add them all back tomorrow, but I'm afraid I need to put this aside for tonight. Sheeana  Talk 05:35, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Arpin, Wisconsin village website
I did search for an official village website to add to the article and found nothing. Sometimes, these types of websites might have information about the history-Many thanks-RFD (talk) 11:43, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I did find a website for the Lester Public Library of Arpin that I added on. This will help people to contact the libary about information about the community-Many thanks-RFD (talk) 12:52, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I noticed your comments on RFD's page. That Arpin history looks relatively good (a few spelling errors) - you provided a reliable source which is important. Where the best place to ask about topics depends on the topic. You can ask experienced people like either of us if you want, but it's probably better to ask about Wisconsin topics at WikiProject Wisconsin. It's important to have a bunch of reliable sources like you have suggested. Please only upload photographs that you took yourself and don't include art works. Otherwise the photo needs to be published before 1923. I'm an admin in Wikimedia Commons, which is the best place to upload works so that the other Wikipedias like Spanish and French can use them. Commons is the file storage place so that any Wikipedia can access.  Royal broil  03:11, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

William Channing Woodbridge
Hi. I've nominated William Channing Woodbridge, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Sheeana Talk 06:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Help desk
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