User talk:Rknopfel01

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Pan American Games Football
The men's tournament will be with u-23 teams, but Brazil has announced its U20 team will compete. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  17:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Volleyball 2011 Pan American Games
Where is your source for the groups draw? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  17:07, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I found the groups in the Spanish page Rknopfel01 (talk) 05:07, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you link the source here please?? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions   14:30, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Rknopfel01 (talk) 00:58, 29 September 2011 (UTC)http://usavolleyball.org/news/2011/09/27/men-s-pan-am-game-team-to-play-exhibition/44759 for men's tournament and http://www.voleibol.pe/seleccion-femenina/peru-ya-tiene-rivales-en-los-juegos-panamericanos/ for women's tournament

1988 Tournament of the Americas
This is odd both are contradicting one another. Obviously one is wrong, but its hard to say which one its is even if its the official FIBA website. I have e-mailed them and lets wait for the response. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  15:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a question, are you from Mexico? If so you plan on attending the 2011 Pan Am Games? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions   15:48, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

No, I'm not from Mexico, I'm from Paraguay and I live in the USA, so I won't be able to attend the 2011 Pan Am Games, I would love to though, I will follow it onlineRknopfel01 (talk) 04:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Really? Paraguay sound nice, I am guessing you will keep track of Paraguay's page? I am having difficulty understanding sources in Spanish, so its great we have people editing with knowledge of the language. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions   13:41, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

J. Augusto Saldivar
The name of this city is Julián Augusto Saldívar:. In es.wikipedia:--164.132.88.121 (talk) 12:07, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

you are totally right, many people thinks that the J stands for Juan, but it's for JulianRknopfel01 (talk) 05:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation, I will join the forum Rknopfel01 (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

October 2011
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=457596650 here].  pluma  Ø  03:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems like you might have been adding a legitimate reference, but I can't be sure: it doesn't look like one. I'm sorry if I was wrong, and happy editing!  pluma  Ø  03:09, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I just added a reference (link) to the Pan American Games website with the results and schedule of the Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games to confirm the results. This is the link: http://200.57.183.69/ENG/ZZ/ZZS103A_BB@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ENG.htm Rknopfel01 (talk) 03:12, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

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!) 09:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for all the tips, it will help me a lot, I really appreciate it. I will start using all the tools you mentioned, specially the Sandbox before posting or editing an article. Thank you again Rknopfel01 (talk) 09:24, 30 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.

Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!
You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - 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 all by itself.  For those it can;t do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually.  Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose soemthing appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing!  Pesky  ( talk  …stalk!) 09:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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