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Sorry for being snippy!
Hey, sorry I was so snippy earlier. I don't think I was overtly rude, but I still could have been a little nicer! I mean, come to think of it, your minor misattribution was nothing worse than similar things I've done in the past. Real life stress is kind of high for me right now, so I'd probably do well to take a wikibreak! Thanks for not being all pissy back at me even if I might have deserved it ;-) --Icarus (Hi!) 23:51, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome
Welcome!

Hello, Keyofz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for contributingJohn Davis (pianist). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted. Please add reliable sources as quickly  as possible in  order to  assert notability for the subject. There's also a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Kudpung (talk) 04:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of John Davis (pianist)


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John davis
You have removed the PROD teplate, but you have only provided one single reliable source. That does not alone assert notability according mo Wikipedia requirements at WP:BAND. In order to avoid possible deletion, could you please now provide reliable sources as soon as possible. Thanks.--Kudpung (talk) 14:25, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Some
Hi, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps.  Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type  on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you. Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 10:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


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Named references
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Something to make your life easier!
Hi there ! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing!  Pesky  ( talk  …stalk!) 10:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the citation templates info. I will definitely explore this. Shortcut tips are welcome. Keyofz (talk) 13:28, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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I understand your deletion of the date. I received the news from the family. However, his death has not yet been publicized. I'll update the page when there's a citable source. Keyofz (talk) 06:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Probably not considered authoritative, but Almer's sister posted the news on TA's Facebook page last night: https://www.facebook.com/tandynalmer. Keyofz (talk) 06:26, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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Steven Crowder
I think you're misunderstanding something here. A parenthetical aside is not a verifiable fact. Just because Fox still lists him as a contributor does not mean he's still employed by Fox. In fact, the simple fact that he's not contributed anything to Fox since March 2013 is a good indication that he's merely kept on the site so that they can link back to his older articles. I would ask that you get further verification to back up your edit. Otherwise, it needs to be removed and reverted and maybe included as a link in the external links section. 5minutes (talk) 14:39, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Here is precisely what I wrote: "(Crowder is still listed as a contributor on the Fox web site.)" What part of that sentence is not factual? You say "we need more info from reliable sources." Define "reliable." (For that matter, define "we.") Is someone who offers a contrary opinion "reliable" because they support what you choose to believe? I repeat: wiki deals in facts, not conjecture. If you're convinced Fox's statement is untrue, then disprove it. Until you do, please leave it as is, because CROWDER. IS. STILL. LISTED. AS. A. CONTRIBUTOR. ON. THE. FOX. WEBSITE. Thanks for putting up with this vent. Keyofz (talk) 06:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Please relax. I'm not attacking you - I'm just working to make the best article possible.  Fox News is a reliable source, but there are a couple of issues.  First - WP tends to prefer multiple reliable sources.  The other issue is that the page you're linking to is not what you think it is.  It is not a list of current contributors.  It's an archive of Crowder's contributions at Fox while he was a contributor.  In fact, their current list of on-air personalities does not include Crowder at all, indicating that if he does contribute to Fox, he's an invited guest, not a paid contributor. 5minutes (talk) 11:51, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 19:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * I am obtaining proof of permission from both Dawn Eden and from photographer Ron Sartini. It will be submitted in a few days. Keyofz (talk) 15:26, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Photographer Ron Sartini has sent a letter of confirmation to the permissions email above. I trust this is satisfactory. Keyofz (talk) 12:53, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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Julian Whiterose
I have paraphrased some of the content you added to the above article, as it appears to have been copied from http://www.trinidadexpress.com/featured-news/A-century-of--vocal-calypso--recording-241390541.html?s=akpakguide.com/europe/rail-passes/multiple-counww.inlsndvalleyn, a copyright web page. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 02:27, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

No, this is fine. I'm grateful for your rephrasing. Sorry about copying content, I'm usually conscientious about avoiding that. I was just overly enthusiastic because Cowley had unearthed so many obscure facts about Whiterose I had not read before. — Keyofz (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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 * The replicated material was minor, and has been removed or revised. Why are my previous edits stricken? Keyofz (talk) 13:42, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Tobi Lou
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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Tobi Lou for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

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