User talk:Ola Winslow

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Hello, Ola Winslow, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:27, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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-- WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:27, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Dear Mike. Thank you very much for these explanations. I have a whole list of important film journalists and film publications that I would like to create Wikipedia articles for. I keep wanting to look up people like Stephanie Zachareck and Mike Goodridge and their publications when I come across their names in other articles, but although they are prominent journalists, and sites like Eclipse Online and UrbanCinefile and screenjunkies.com are really important, and have dozens of articles that mention them, I can never find anything.

Am I using this Talkback thing correctly? Was I supposed to hit "edit" on the tab above your post? Was I supposed to place that bracket above my comments, or below? Or only on your site? Sorry, I find the whole Wikipedia thing quite daunting, but I want to get it right.

I copy-pasted the curvy brackets from your site. Where else would I find these characters? Is there an easy way to insert these brackets, and the line separating Talkback and my name? Are there button combinations I can hit? Or is there a box I can open that

Can you teach me how to quote properly? I know that citations should really mention the publication and the date I gathered the information, if it is from a website. But I don't know how to do that.

Many thanks

best,

Ola.


 * Ola:
 * You appear to be somewhat bewildered by the whole Wikipedia experience. I'll try to point you in some useful directions.
 * First, my name is Dan, not Mike. Mike Goodridge is the name of the film journalist about whom you wrote an article.  I placed a comment at Talk:Mike Goodridge, and placed the "Talkback" template here hoping to direct you to that comment and elicit your response to the comment.  Please feel free to look at that talk page now and let me know your thoughts.  Preferably, you should edit Talk:Mike Goodridge and leave your comments there.
 * You are not using the Talkback thing correctly, but that's OK. Mistakes are made frequently at Wikipedia -- it's one of the best ways to learn how to use the system.  When someone leaves a "Talkback" message on your talk page, you should click on the link in the message to be directed to a talk page (either a user's talk page or the talk page of an article, or some other discussion page within Wikipedia) where the discussion is taking place.  This is a useful feature to allow a conversation to occur all on one page.  For example: if I were responding to your message on my talk page, I would leave a Talkback message at your talk page to let you know that you have a new message there.  You can do the same thing: if you respond on your talk page to a comment left by another user, you can leave a Talkback message at that user's page directing them to the conversation on your page.  For more information on this, refer to the documentation at Template:Talkback.
 * Curly brackets ({}) are a standard feature on American computer keyboards. They are located next to the letter P (they are the shifted versions of the square brackets ([]).  If you are using a non-standard keyboard that does not have these characters, I really couldn't say how you would generate them.
 * Help on citations is available at Help:Citing sources.
 * Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:40, 25 February 2011 (UTC)