User talk:H.e.mccandless

Help me!
Help me with...I am writing an article about William Luckey (the President of Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky) for a project in my writing studies class. There are some words which Wikipedia will not let me use such as Wabash College (which is where he attended college) and Lindsey Wilson College (which is where he is president now and I was just wondering how I can fix those things without taking the information out of the article. The article we tried to create was called William Luckey Lindsey Wilson College President.

I hope to hear from you soon. If you could, please email your response to hannah.mccandless@lindsey.edu and I will fix it!

Thanks!!

H.e.mccandless (talk) 18:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * What makes you say that Wikipedia won't let you use those words? I don't understand that at all. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:17, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Just a quick couple of pieces of advice... The article William Luckey doesn't exist yet, so that might be a better name for the article. Usually for a biography, the name of the article is simply the common name of the person unless there are multiple people with that name, in which you may need to add something in parentheses after the name to differentiate them. The other piece of advice is to try the article creation wizard if you haven't yet, do so at WP:WIZARD. It will guide you through the process. Like JamesBWatson I'm confused because I have trouble believing that our edit filter would disallow those specific terms (it's possible but seems very unlikely). Are you getting an error message telling you that you can't use those words? If so, can you reproduce it here for us to look at? --  At am a  頭 21:47, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Obviously since you used the "words" in this discussion, they're not disallowed. However, if you mean links to some website, then it's possible those sites are not allowed for some reason, and you'll have to leave them out.  I agree you should use the WP:WIZARD to write your draft.  good luck !!  — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (t • e • c) 01:47, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, now I'm on a computer instead of my mobile phone. Please create your draft using the article creation wizard on the page WT:Articles for creation/William Luckey.  Make sure to include any reliable source that you can find and following the formating guideline for inline citations on referencing for beginners.  When you are done and are convinced you have a suitably referenced draft, please click on the "Submit your draft when you are ready for it to be reviewed!" button in the big grey box.  An edit page will load when you click this button, simply press  and you are done except for waiting for it to be accepted.  Keep track of your draft and your user talk page here, and you will be told if it is accepted (there will be a green accepted box on this talk page) or declined (there will be a pinkish/orangish declined box on this talk page) and if declined there should be some details as to why it was declined on the draft itself.  Make any needed changes and click the blue resubmit button.  Creating an article is not a process that should be rushed, but if you have patiences and are willing to invest the time to get all of the appropriate sources, it can be in mainspace within a month usually.  If you have any further questions, feel free to mention me (copy my signature and paste it on this talk page followed by ~ ) and I'll see if I can't clarify or post up a new Help me request and someone will be here to help you.  As far as emailing goes, if you want emails, I suggest you go to Special:ChangeEmail and put your email and password into the appropriate boxes.  This will allow people to email you through the Wikipedia system.  Happy editing! — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (t • e • c) 13:52, 7 March 2014 (UTC)