User talk:Philsp

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Philsp! Thank you for your contributions. I am ThatPeskyCommoner and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You might want to consider being "adopted" by an experienced user who would show you how wikipedia works through a program called adopt-a-user. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 15:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * How to write a great article

Some tips to help you out!
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.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 15:31, 23 October 2011 (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.

Chzz lives 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.

Something to make your life easier!
Hi there ! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you might appreciate some help with 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!) 15:31, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Samuel Youd
I get that his actual birth name was Sam Youd. you made the initial changes without citing any sources, including obituaries or the SF encyclopedia, where i finally found a source for it. i have added such to the article, but i think to switch his name over entirely to sam youd, which is not well known outside of his circle of friends, would require some discussion on the talk page of the the article. I wont revert any of your changes (i dislike edit warring intensely), but I would ask that more inline sources be added, and a discussion be started. I do want to note that you have edited here under this user name a total of 40 edits. While i really want to welcome you, you might want to honor some of the other editors experience here as well (I have done a bit more, though i have never held a professional editing position). you seem to have an interest in the minutiae of the SF world, which i completely respect as necessary here. And, if consensus at some point is to change the article name back, or to rewrite using Sam extensively, i will defer of course. Also note, internationally, his WP articles are all Samuel or John (not that thats an authoritative answer, of course).User:Mercurywoodrose76.232.10.255 (talk) 07:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You make valid points. When i first made corrections to your corrections, i didnt have any sources for your changes. i then found the one source (sf encyc) for his kept birth name. I agree that we need to document a person's actual name. There is however some debate at many other articles on what the article should be called when there are multiple names involved. In his case, he is best known by most casual readers as John Christopher, to bibliophiles as Samuel Youd with lots of pseudonyms, to people in the SF fraternity as Sam, etc: it will require some consensus building (and i wont even try to push any pov at this point, just follow it a bit). Please accept my apology for the quickness in my editing. even with your not providing an initial source, i was still reverting to info that was not fully sourced itself. I will, again, not revert any changes you make, and will bring up any of my concerns on the talk page. PS this all comes about from my love of his work when i was a youth, and my efforts to improve the article a few months ago (and the creation of the template for his works as JC). so, i am guilty of WP:OWN, which i can see is easy to slip into if one is passionate about the subject. PPS my condolences to his family.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Recent photo of Richard A. Lupoff.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Recent photo of Richard A. Lupoff.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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File permission problem with File:Recent photo of Richard A. Lupoff.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Recent photo of Richard A. Lupoff.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Frances Deegan/Frances Yerxa/Frances Hamling
Got your email. I started that article a few years ago, and I don't remember all the details, only that the Deegan pseudonym was complicated. I'll edit the article to reflect that better. Thanks for reaching out. Penny Richards (talk) 14:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)