User talk:Info~enwiki

Spam
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Tyrenius 18:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I have reviewed your external links and kept them, as I think they are useful. However, please bear in mind the warning above. Please note also you inserted broken links, missing out the "artist/" code in the middle of the link. It would be helpful if you could add to artists biographies, not just add promotional material for your gallery.


 * You may have thought you were starting an article on the gallery at User:Kerlin Gallery, but this is just a user page, not an article. I have started an article at Kerlin Gallery. Judicious additions to this article would be useful, but please study policies on writing articles.


 * Tyrenius 19:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

User name
Wikipedia doesn't allow user names of companies, so I must ask you to change your user name. This can be done at Changing username, which will preserve your edit history. Alternatively you can just sign up with a new name, and the current name will be blocked from editing. You can find the policy on this at Username. I apologise for not mentioning this earlier. Please let me know your decision on this, either here or on User talk:Tyrenius. Thanks. Tyrenius 13:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Please respond to the above message or else if you edit again, this user name will be blocked. Thank you. Tyrenius 17:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Kerlin Gallery → info
--86.43.79.253 17:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Current name: Kerlin Gallery (talk • contribs)
 * Requested name: info (Gallery&newusername=info change username)
 * Reason: My current username is displaying a company and that is against the policy of Wikipedia -- 86.43.79.253 17:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)


 * This is insufficient. You must log in as this account in order for the request to be valid. --Durin 17:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Kerlin Gallery → info

 * Current name: Kerlin Gallery (talk • contribs)
 * Requested name: (Gallery&info=info change username)
 * Reason: company name -- Kerlin Gallery 17:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I have unblocked you to allow you to make this request at WP:CHU. Please do not edit anything other than this talk page or WP:CHU while unblocked pending the username change. If you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to ask. --Durin 17:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

You must be logged into make a username change request. You can not do it not logged in, as you did here and here. I have unblocked User:Kerlin Gallery specifically so this can be done by that account while it is logged in. --Durin 12:47, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The name you chose is already in use. Since it has no edits, you can request usurpation of the username at Changing username/Usurpations. --Durin 14:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Guide to referencing
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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can removed unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started.

Good references
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use Reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, authorised web sites, and official documents. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is Original research, e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research.

Simple referencing
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section. This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:


 * ==Notes and references==

The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):



Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.

Test it out
Copy the following text, open the edit box for this page, paste it at the bottom (inserting your own text) and save the page:


 * ==Reference test==


 * This is the text which you are going to reference.


 * ==Notes and references==



(End of text to copy and paste.)

Information to include
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For a book it might look like this:



An online newspaper source would be:



Note the square brackets around the URL. The format is [URL Title] with a space between the URL and the Title. If you do this the URL is hidden and the Title shows as the link. Use double apostrophes for the article title, and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics).

The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead. Wikilinks (double square brackets which create an internal link to a wikipedia article) function inside the ref tags. Dates are wikilinked so that they work with user preference settings.

Citation templates
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference

Same ref used twice or more
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the

The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:



You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! A short cut will only pick up from higher up the page, so make sure the first ref is the full one. Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them.

Example
You can see refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are 3 sources and they are each referenced 3 times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.

Next step
When you become familiar with the process, the next step is to have one section, "Footnotes", with links embedded in the text, and another, "References", which lists all of your references alphabetically with full details, e.g. for a book:


 * Lincoln, Abraham; Grant, U. S.; & Davis, Jefferson (1861). Resolving Family Differences Peacefully (3rd ed.). Gettysburg: Printing Press. ISBN 0-12-345678-9.

If you're ready to go into it further, these pages have detailed information:
 * Citing sources
 * Citing sources/example style
 * Citation templates
 * Footnotes

I hope this helps. If you need any assistance, let me know.

Tyrenius 00:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Info. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Info~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 00:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 14:02, 22 April 2015 (UTC)