User talk:Marcel.kummer

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EdJogg (talk) 10:46, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Issue about sources in wikipedia

 * Copied from User talk:EdJogg:
 * Dear Pete
 * Thank you for your kind help at Talk:Great Western Railway. I have not noticed there is a template for done.
 * In the same context I am wondering about the following issue:
 * The chart I provided at Great Western Railway is based on ms excel. The wikipedia community is currently only in the posession of a picture of the chart. It would be hard to make changes to the chart as the source is not available. Currently the source is located on my computer only.
 * This must be a common problem in wiki systems. Is there a clever solution for this?
 * Best regards, Marcel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcel.kummer (talk • contribs) 06:22, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Marcel

There are a large number of useful templates hiding around Wikipedia, and people are making more all the time. I maintain a user 'help' page to keep track of the ones I find most useful.

As for the Excel source file, that is a very interesting point. I must be honest that I don't know the answer. I would suggest that you check out the Help pages and processes available. (Select Interaction->Help from the sidebar. Sorry I can't be more specific as to where you might best find your answer.)

This is the same question and answer present on my talk page. I thought I would answer here (as well) as you would be more likely to see it, and you could look at the formatting to see how to lay out your talk submissions more quickly. (You don't need to use a line break symbol. Two returns (as I've used here) will do the trick (3 returns gives you a big blank line, one return will be ignored and the adjacent lines joined). And where you have an indent using colons, you don't even need to leave blank lines.

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EdJogg (talk) 11:44, 25 October 2010 (UTC)