User talk:Hmmreally

Your recent edits
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 17:41, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Some help with the tildes
Hi,

I noticed that you've been having some trouble with signing comments. Please keep in mind that signing is for talk pages and discussion pages only, never while editing an article nor while providing a description of an edit (the edit summary). Just say whatever you want to tell someone and at the end write ~.

For example:

I agree with you. We can find better sources for that article. Have a great day! ~

Make sure you've provided an edit summary even in those situations, such as "Reply" (on talk pages no one reads the edit summaries so there's no need to say much, although for article edits you should describe your edit clearly), but don't sign in the edit summary description box. Then click Save and you'll see your username and date at the end of your comment.

For example, look at the top of the history of this page, HERE. See, you tried to sign there, but that's not a place for signing. But at least you provided an edit summary, which is important, whereas several others did not. However, perhaps it was a mistake to link Walter Brennan there because he had already been linked in the lead section of the article. What you did is maybe a case of overlinking. Here are some useful tips: WP:OVERLINKING. See, it says, "Generally, a link should appear only once in an article, but if helpful for readers, a link may be repeated in infoboxes, tables, image captions, footnotes, hatnotes, and at the first occurrence after the lead." Possibly what you did was right. It's not very clear. Maybe Walter Brennan should not have been linked in the lead section, and instead your choice was the correct one (the first appearance after the lead), but definitely not in the lead section AND right after it.

Anyway, I hope I was able to help with signing, and feel free to ask for help on my talk page. The Teahouse is also a great place for getting help. All the best, Dontreader (talk) 06:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi again. You are right: I should archive most of what's on my talk page! People keep on telling me but I keep on forgetting. Notice, however, that if you want to write something to someone on a talk page, and it's a new topic, you can click on "New section", which is at the top of every talk page, next to "Read" and "Edit", and right before "View history". If you choose that option ("New section"), you will be asked to provide a title for the new section, then say whatever you want, sign it, save it, and the new section will appear at the bottom of the talk page. Oh, by the way, you forgot to sign your comment on my talk page. Anyway, my username should be read as Don Treader. I should make that clear on my user page.


 * How can I help you with links and footnotes? Have you tried using your sandbox for experiments? It's a great place to learn. You can mess up all you want, and no one cares. All you have to do is click on "Sandbox" at the top of your page. Anyway, I'm here to help! Dontreader (talk) 17:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I wrote a reply on my talk page. Were you notified? The references issue is much easier than you think. I created your personal sandbox with an example of how it works. Please check your sandbox by either clicking on Sandbox at the top of the page next to Talk or click here: User:Hmmreally/sandbox. Examine that page carefully, and then click on Edit just to see the code that was used for creating the references. A key thing you see in the article code is that under ==References== you see . The command  is what magically makes the ref list appear. Notice also the letters "a" and "b" in a couple of sources in the ref section. Please tell me what you think. Dontreader (talk) 01:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I will write to you only on your talk page to make sure you see my messages.


 * 1. As I said, don't try to sign in edit boxes. You should add the 4 tildes only at the end of comments on talk pages and similar pages where you interact with other people. Then save the page. You have not signed properly yet, but you'll get the hang of it.
 * 2. Edit summaries should be provided for all edits (articles, talk pages, user pages, sandboxes, etc.). The only exception is when you choose New section on a talk page to start a new topic because in those cases you provide a title for the section, and there's no edit summary box.
 * 3. Did you check your sandbox? Here it is again: User:Hmmreally/sandbox. You can mess around with it as much as you want and no one will care. It's great for experimentation. I could show you mine, with some neat tricks! Please look at your sandbox carefully and then click Edit to examine the code. You will see how the references are made. The list of references with numbers appears automatically thanks to the command, which is at the end of the sandbox code right now. Dontreader (talk) 03:25, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Talkback
Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Regarding my offer to help you
Hi,

I'm sorry but I spent a lot of time explaining how to place the tildes correctly, and how the references section works, yet you keep on making the same mistakes with the tildes. I just don't see a sincere effort on your part to learn the most basic things here. You also totally ignored the sandbox that I created for you. I will let others try to help you, but we are all busy people with real lives, so I hope you aren't just trying to mess with Wikipedians who have good intentions. Dontreader (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either: This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
 * 1) Add four tildes  ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment; or
 * 2) With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (Insert-signature.png or Signature icon.png) located above the edit window.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 22:03, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

August 2016
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Alt-right. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been undone. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 06:12, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
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