User talk:HMRothman

How do External Links work?
A page states "she was a Fulbright Scholar"

Wikipedia has a "Fulbright Award" page, where it states it "is a scholarship awarded as part of the Fulbright Program" and "The program makes a number of awards at undergraduate, postgraduate, post-doctoral and Fellowship levels".

In the academic world, people who get a "Fulbright Award" are often referred to as "Fulbright Scholar"s.

I think the reference Fulbright Scholar should be an alias|synonym|resolve-itself to the Fulbright Award page.

How do I/we do that?

"Nearly every question has at least two correct answers"; usually, there is an easiest, a quickest, a most elegant, &/or an approved answer — each of which may be different from all the others. Therefore:

(A) we could make the citation reference scholar map to award [modify the 'source'], or

(B) we could make the reference be a destination for both scholar & award [modify the 'target'] or

(C) some combination, or something else I haven't thought of.

--     Peace - Hesch ''"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious." - unknown'' ''"Do not put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness." - HMRothman'' 23:21, 15 August 2009 (UTC)


 * If you think that Fulbright Scholar should redirect to Fulbright Award instead of Fulbright Program, then please, go ahead and change it. You can get to the redirect itself by clicking this, and you'll see that it currently says;


 * 1) REDIRECTFulbright Program


 * If I understand the above correctly, you should change it to;


 * 1) REDIRECTFulbright Award


 * You might also want to click on "What links here?" on the toolbar on the left, to check on other pages that link to the redirect - or click [Special:WhatLinksHere/Fulbright Scholar]].


 * By the way, why does the topic of this section say "How do External Links work?"? Was that left over from a previous question? There is no need to remove things from this talk page; you can just keep adding new sections to the end.


 * For more help, you can either;


 * Leave a message on my own talk page;
 * Use a - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put , and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~ at the end;
 * Talk to us live, with this or this.


 * Best wishes,  Chzz  ►  23:38, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

How does an article get an 'alias' OR how can text in an article reference an unspecified 'name'?
[21:31]  Hello, chzz - Thanks for the reply. To answer your question first - yes, it is kind of left over from something earlier - concurrent, actually. This is the first time I am attempting to edit content, rather than just proofreading (or prufreedn, as I usually advertise myself). [21:33]  The page in question, Barbara Katz Rothman, contains Wikipedia references and external links and other stuff -- recently created (by someone else), and still in the works. I have added / upgraded / proofread much of it, and now I am in Wikipedia syntax area I don't know. [21:37]  I think you misread my first entry - Fulbright Awards made by the Fulbright Program (two separate Wikipedia (is WP OK here?) entries) create people who are Fulbright Scholars; the definition of Scholars in within the article F Program. Therefore, I think Scholar should refer to Award, just as Award should. An Alias, synonym, whatever terminology WP uses. I think what I am looking for is for "... article text < > ..." to act the same / have the same result as "... name ..." where 'name' exists but 'keyword' does not (yet). Peace - Hesch ''"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious." - unknown'' ''"Do not put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness." - HMRothman'' 02:11, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. I'm not really sure what you mean, but I'll try to answer. Are you asking about how we link articles? Normally, you just put the article name in double square brackets, like sausage, which displays as sausage. If you want to link one word to an article with a different name, you can put e.g. traditional food , which links the words "traditional food" to the article called "sausage", like this: traditional food. For more help with this, see WP:LINKING.   Chzz  ►  02:43, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Excellent! Thanks, Chzz. All the examples I had come across seemed to be unnecessarily redundant — I did not detect any difference between the article "sausage" and the name "sausage" (I may have been looking at the work of someone at a similarly unsophisticated level as myself).  I will go back and code Fulbright Scholar where "Fulbright Scholar" currently appears.  PLEASE NOTE:  I believe you have detailed an explanation of the second option of my question, AND I believe there is still a need for the first option; as in this case, I believe I am not the only visitor to Wikipedia who might seek the information in the Award article knowing only the Scholar terminology.  --Peace - Hesch  HMRothman(talk) 04:05, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Signature
Hi HMRothman, may I ask that you take a look at Wikipedia guidelines regarding signatures. At present there are a few problems with your signature: tags.
 * Excessive length - the quotations should be removed.
 * Use of
 * No links - the signature should include a link to your user page and/or talk page (or your contributions page, but my personal advice would be to include at least one of the first two as well). For example, using: HMRothman'(talk) results in HMRothman'(talk).  (NB. The talk link will not work here as we are already on the page to which it links.  ∙  AJCham  talk  03:01, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

AJCham – Is this better? Thanks for the warning and advice. I am still working on the concept of this TalkPage, and have little idea about my UserPage, much less my ContributionsPage. I am an in courage a bull pruf reedr arrogant enough to think I am competent to pic nits in [some] other peoples' works; except for this Barbara Katz Rothman article, I have limited myself, for the most part, to missing or superfluous commas & spaces & letters. --Peace - Hesch HMRothman(talk) 04:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

PostScript: I just looked at your UserPage and was reminded of a badge I occasionally wear: "Is it 'typos' or 'typoes'?  No matter, they're both wrong." - HMR 04:25, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

"I was there"; Is it appropriate to add my experience to WP?
The WP article Epstein Brothers Orchestra was commended to me, and it turns out I was at a wedding at which they performed. Is it appropriate to add this factoid to WP? Where and how? "Discussion" and "Talk" are two venues that tempt me; the article itself does *not* seem the appropriate place for such anecdotal information, though noting there that they performed at (at least one) such event *might* be appropriate. If it is relevant, "Chi" Epstein (one of the 4 brothers) was a friend of the father-of-the-bride, trumpeter "Red" Berken, who performed with and/or conducted them on some numbers, and is deserving of an article of his own. I can name and/or contact at least another dozen attendees who can 'verify' this information. --Peace - Hesch HMRothman(talk) 10:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid not: the WP:Verifiability policy requires that "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source" - information from your own experience is considered original research. Even the talk page is for discussion about improving the article, rather than general discussion about the subject. By all means write an article about "Red" Berken, if you can find published sources to show notability - have a look at WP:Your first article. JohnCD (talk) 10:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)