User talk:LK Couture

Help request
LK Couture (talk) 22:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

i am trying to make a page for the designer Lloyd Klein and i am trying to make it just like Ralph Lauren's and Coco Chanel's page if someone could just help me out that would be great!

The below should help you to get started, and it tells you how to get more help whenever you need it.  Chzz  ►  22:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome and introduction
Hi, LK Couture. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  22:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

thanks for all that information i appreciate it but i have all the information that i want to start this page with im just putting up a biography to start and then all i want to do is add that box to the side with his picture and all his information just like on Ralph Laurens page do you know how to get that box? LK Couture (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That is an info box. You can see a list of them here: List of infoboxes/Proposed--Cubs197 (talk) 22:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * (e/c) They are called infoboxes, and you can pick and choose from a slew of them at Category:Infobox templates. The one in use at Ralph Lauren is Infobox Fashion Designer. If you visit that article and click "edit this page" you can then examine the code that's in the article to produce anything you see when in read mode. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I will put an example in a user subpage, user:LK_Couture/infodemo - you can play with it; try changing things, see what happens, etc.  Chzz  ►  22:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Permission for pictures
As explained on IRC - and added here, so that you have the links;

If a picture is your own - you took it, it's your own personal pic - then you can just upload it to commons.

If it is not yours, we need explicit permission from the copyright holder. You can achieve that by getting the copyright holder to email the picture with some text, releasing permission. One suitable text is in user:chzz/help/myboilerplate. They would then send that email, with their name and the date completed, and the pic attached, to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

Once the picture is on Wikipedia, it can be added to articles in various ways. If it is to go in that 'infobox' we discussed, you would just add the filename to the image line;

{{Infobox Person
 * name       = Chzz
 * image      = whatever.jpg

If the picture is to go elsewhere, you just put or something like that. This example shows the pic here. For more, see WP:IMAGES.

Like everything else, the best thing is to try it for yourself, on a userspace page, such as user:LK_Couture/test. Best of luck,   Chzz  ►  22:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

How references work
Regarding your proposed article, please note that all articles must show the notability of the subject. To assert notability, you need secondary reliable sources, such as a national newspaper, etc. Please read about verifiability.

The facts given in the article should be referenced. Think of it this way - the reader must be able to check the facts for themselves. For example, if you cite a newspaper or book, it would be possible for a reader to obtain the paper/book and check the fact for themselves. Unfortunately, if you cannot find reliable secondary sources for information, it cannot be put on Wikipedia. For example - I could say that I was the Queen of Sheba, and create an article about myself - but that would not be permitted. I could also create a myspace page about myself and my Queenhood, and cite that - but that would still not be sufficient. I would have to wait until the BBC News picked up on my Queenhood, and wrote a story about it. Then, I could cite the BBC article and create my page.

Here is how you make such references;

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837, in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

August 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Lloyd Klein has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \bfacebook\.com (links: http://www.facebook.com/lloyd.klein.couture?ref=ts). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Lloyd Klein
You should be aware that articles on Wikipedia need to be neutral in regards to the topics they cover. Lloyd Klein has the feel of an advertisement or a bio that would be on his website. Wikipedia is not a place for advertisements. Additionally, it is not a place for essays, and the tone of the article needs to be encyclopedic. I've watchlisted the article to keep an eye on it. You also should read WP:COI since it appears to me that you might work for the subject. It is fine if you edit the article, just keep things neutral, referenced, and free from advertisement-like language. Thanks. Killiondude (talk) 20:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Wuh Wuz  Dat  19:20, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

yes i already know the person before you told me. i'm in the process of fixing it today

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please create a new account, and see WP:WHYNOT in our FAQ for businesses and organizations. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may ask for a review of this username block by adding the text below this message. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 19:25, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm sorry, but this is a separate problem that it looks like no one mentioned before ... your username appears to represent a company. Please create a new account that doesn't refer to any company, organization or website. - Dank (push to talk) 19:27, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Your recent addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Copied from http://www.facebook.com/Lloyd.Klein.Couture?v=info Whpq (talk) 17:14, 18 August 2009 (UTC)