User talk:Nearlygold

Welcome
Hi,. 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  ►  17:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Baran
I've moved the article on Baran to a user subpage, it's User:Nearlygold/baran. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  16:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

IRC
Hi, you got disconnected a few minutes ago, so I will paste the rest of what I said here;

[17:45] OK, done - so, what I've done here is, I've moved your article to a subpage. [17:45] Your user page here, should be just for a bit of info about yourself (if you wish) - take a look, I've removed the article from there... [17:45] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nearlygold [17:46] ...and I've put the article into a user subpage. It's a bit like a folder or directory. So, see; [17:46] User:Nearlygold/baran [17:48] I've also written a note on your talk page with a link to the new location of the article. [17:48] nearlygold have a look at that, and let me know if you understand so far. Then I'll help with the article [17:51] OK, so - the article needs a bit of work before it would be accepted on Wikipedia. Sure, you could move it to the live area now - but it would get deleted, and we don't want that. The article needs some references and other things; if you have about 30 minutes to spare, I'll happily explain how you can fix it, and add it as a 'live' article. If you don't have time, I'll happily do it for you.

So - same still applies; I'll talk you through it over IRC, or help you via talk pages, or whatever you wish.

You can either;


 * Leave a message on my talk page
 * Put a on this page, and get a response from a helper
 * talk to us live

Best of luck in whatever you decide,  Chzz  ►  16:56, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Robert J Baran
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Robert J Baran, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Unreferenced WP:BLP

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. — S Marshall  Talk / Cont  16:26, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Baran
Hi there.

So you have the link to User:Nearlygold/Robert_J_Baran.

To fix up the article, you'll need to add references to reliable sources]. I will add information on how to do that, below. Please also read [[WP:FIRST, which explains a lot about how to make articles. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  00:12, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

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.

Spotlight
Hi there. Hopefully you'll remember me, from my trying to help you; well, now it's my turn to ask for help.

I'm trying to help re-launch an idea called "Spotlight". The notion is to select an article and work on it collectively, via live discussion, for one week. If lots of people get involved, it can work really well; in the past, the project died off through lack of participants. Anyone can help out, because that's the whole point - we have many and varied skills, but between us, we can do amazing things. So - please join the channel, and add yourself to the participants in WP:SPOTLIGHT. Thanks for your time!  Chzz  ►  22:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Senior Wikipedians
WikiProject Wikipedians aged 70 and older has been inactive for some time. The following three proposals may help invigorate this project.


 * 1) Change the name of this project to WikiProject Senior Wikipedians.
 * 2) Open membership in this project to users who are at least 60 years of age and have made at least 50 edits in the past year.
 * 3) Open supporting membership in this project to users who are less than 60 years old but have made at least 50 edits in the past year and support the goals of this project.

Suggested goals for this project:


 * 1) To support collaboration and communication among members for the advancement and improvement of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.
 * 2) To encourage older people, retired people, and soon-to-be-retired people to participate in Wikipedia both for the advancement of the encyclopedia and for their own personal enjoyment.
 * 3) To encourage older people to share their experience and expertise for the improvement of Wikipedia.
 * 4) To encourage older users to use their experience and expertise to help younger and less experienced users.
 * 5) To encourage participation in local and regional Wikimedia events.
 * 6) To sponsor Wikipedia meetings and classes at places where older people gather.
 * 7) To advocate for the elimination of ageism and sexism in Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.

Please add your suggestions for this project at Senior Wikipedians. Thank you, Buaidh  talk e-mail 01:15, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

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