User talk:Zephfya

Thank you Roux! Zephfya (talk) 14:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Citing sources (e.g. printed sources)
Please :) I can't work out how to add citation and ref links correctly, any help appreciated! Thank you! Zephfya (talk) 02:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC) Use the "ref" template and add the " " tag at the end of the page for the reference to be listed. See this example: - Google has a Firefox page.  In a working mode:

Question
 * answer1
 * Answer to answer1


 * answer2
 * answer to answer2

- And you are also recommended to sign each of your messages at talk pages with " ~ ". Further questions are welcome! --Q0k (talk) 06:52, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk:The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Hi Zephfya. I'm replying from the helpme you left on the above page. I see you've already gotten advice from Q0k and it's very similar to what I would have said. So, since that still left you undsure of how to do it, let me try breaking it down into hopefully simpler bites.

Anything you place between ref tags in an article formats as a footnote when you save wherever you place the template Reflist. You place the ref tags in the text, but they only appear there when you're looking behind the curtain, at the code in the article while editing. When you are reading the article in normal mode, the citations between ref tags you placed in the text appears in the references section at the end. There are citation templates which can help with formatting, such as cite book. These go in between the ref tags and make citing easier and more consistent to place. See here for a visual explanation of all this which might help.

So, if this was a sentences in an article that you wanted to place an inline citation to a book at the end, you'd type right here, just after this colon with no space:

==References== ({Reflist}}

The above is what it would look like when you were in edit mode. However, when you saved this and looked at it in read mode, what you'd see is this:

So, if this was a sentences in an article that you wanted to place an inline citation to a book at the end, you'd type right here, just after this colon with no space:

Reference attribution
Hi again Zephfya. I have reformatted all of the references you placed and I thought I'd describe a few issues since you are planning on sourcing other articles. You should provide full attribution, which includes, where available, author's name, publisher, date of publication and date you accessed the source. For example, for the Variety reference, the publisher is Variety. The author is Dave McNary, as listed on the Variety site, where the date of publication is also listed. Also, the title of the piece is whatever it is entitled at the external source (not "link" or "review"). So the full reference is:

The order the parameters are placed is irrelevant by the way. In other words, you can place  first, and   last, or any other order, and it does not impact on how the reference formats. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:22, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. If the author is unlisted, you can place "Staff writers". Also, the first source is of highly dubious reliability. It's just a wiki where someone has placed a review. Please see Reliable sources. I have tagged it as such.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for doing that Fughettaboutit! Both you and Q0k have been absolute stars with your advice and patience with me!I would welcome any advice you have on how to modify that first para, would the synopsis from the book cover be a good idea for that? I don't know where that description came from as it was placed there by another contributor!Zephfya (talk) 20:32, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You're most welcome. Well, I don't know about modifying the first paragraph—the whole lead could do with a rewrite to be a summary of the article, per that guideline, but there are many other sources to mine on a quick look. Check out:, , , , and .--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC) 21:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, i've re-worded the lead and made it concise and current, and removed the other contributors review, created a plot summary section with the summary from the book itself and put current links for everything I could think of to do! The page still has a request box at the top asking for sources and refs..but I don't understand why, could you take a look please and advise me what i need to do next to meet the criteria it's asking for? And the same with the "unreliable source" message after a couple of the links i've placed, I don't understand why the sources i've used would be classed as unreliable, so if you could explain, i'd be most grateful!Thank you so much!Zephfya (talk) 02:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL! You added all those unreliable source templates yourself! I took care of it. I had added the template RS (which renders as:) to only the first citation (the one that was already present in the article). You removed that citation but you also apparently used the citation format from that citation, including the RS template I had added, as an example for the code in your most recent citations. Thus, when you added them you flagged each of them as unreliable sources by including the RS template. If you look you'll see that there are still uncited sentences in the article (outside of the plot summary, which doesn't need any) so the refimprove template is still relevant. I'll take a look at the structure soon and see if I can tweak it a bit to meet our style standards.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * DOH! *head, desk!* I'm such a muppet! That's what I get for following everything to the letter! Lololol! You have the patience of a saint.. and i have a large hole in my desk! Zephfya (talk) 06:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've now done the first pass on the next book of the series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician:_The_Secrets_of_the_Immortal_Nicholas_Flamel is there anything that you'd like me to improve there? Many thanks for your expert eyes and advice!Zephfya (talk) 06:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Images
Hi there, can i please have some guidance on how to insert an image into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Necromancer:_The_Secrets_Of_The_Immortal_Nicholas_Flamel I have the cover image for that and would like to update that article too, but i can't find any  advice on the help pages to tell me if the image needs to be from an online source or from my hard drive! All your advice is greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance!Zephfya (talk) 10:33, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. You can find all the info you need at WP:Images. Bejinhan  Talk   10:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the quick reply Bejinhan!Zephfya (talk) 10:43, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

periods
When a reference is at the end of a sentence, it should be situated before period (full stop, "."). Please make further corrections: period forgotten, period placed before reference. Q0k (page, talk, contributions) 05:28, 26 November 2009 (UTC)


 * P.S. I've found out that you are the creator of the page The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Congratulations! Q0k (page, talk, contributions) 05:28, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! It was all thanks to the advice, patience and lots of very nice encouraging words from you, Fleetflame, Fughettaboutit and Bejinhan! I'm working now to improve all of them to get them re-rated out of Start/Stub class, how am I doing?Zephfya (talk) 05:35, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Have corrected the missing/misplaced periods, thank you for spotting that! Your keen eyes and constructive pointers are most welcome :) Zephfya (talk) 06:02, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Michael Scott
recommend write more about his books and his life. the lead is meant to summarise the article, at the moment, some parts of the lead don't appear in the article and the first section is 'Online Games', so there should be a section discussing his books. recommend inline citation for every paragraph after the lead, also maybe good to have some criticism to show the other side Tom B (talk) 15:19, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for the advice, much appreciated! Will work on those areas :) Zephfya (talk) 15:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Adoption
Hey Zephfya, I've placed the template on your userpage like you saw, so now you're officially adopted! I don't have a special program or anything for you to do, although some guys do, but here's my talkpage link: user_talk:Fleetflame. You can ask me a question there anytime, and I'll answer as soon as I can. Otherwise, you know how to find me in the help channel on IRC. Good luck, and see you around!  Fl ee tf la me   ·  whack! whack!  · 23:39, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

I couldn't be happier ..or more thankful :) Your help and advice have kept me sane and got my first article built.. can't think of anyone I'd rather be adopted by, you totally rock and you know it!Zephfya (talk) 23:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey Zephfya, just checking in to see how things are going. Leave me a message if you need anything.  Otherwise, Cheers! :-]    Fl ee tf la me   ·  whack! whack!  · 17:53, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey there Fleet! How's my favourite rescuer? I've popped in a couple of times to say Hi but I've not seen you in the list! Zephfya (talk) 13:17, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Children's Lit Assessment and Book Pages for The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel
I am shortly, or already have, assessed several pages for books in this series. I noticed on the talk pages you'd asked for assessment. That notice did not draw attention at our project page. As you continue to update the pages if you would like reassessment please feel free to make a request at our requesting assessment page. There are a couple of us who are active at the moment in assessing pages.

As I assess the pages I notice that some of the content is similar from page to page, including information about the video games and film. Information on a specific page should be about that specific book. So, for instance, since there only seems to be one film in the works, at least from what I can gleam from the info presented, it should just be on the page for The Alchemist and the series pages. You are clearly passionate about the series and I wish you the best of luck as you continue to edit and improve the pages. Your truly, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice! I do plan on giving them all a good polish, they were my first attempts and I wanted to know how I was doing, so much appreciate the pointers! Yes, only one film in production at the moment, it will incorporate the first two books, the rights to make the films for the whole series were brought by Mr Di Bonaventura. Zephfya (talk) 23:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Request for interview
Hi Zephfya -

I'm a professor working with the GroupLens project at the University of Minnesota, trying to learn about how the adopt-a-user program functions so that we can hopefully develop tools and ideas that might improve it. Your user page indicates you have been adopted... would you be willing to have a conversation with me so I could ask you a bunch of questions about your interactions with the adopt-a-user program? (I'd be willing to do a phone call, instant messaging, or whatever way you would best prefer to do it.) I'm hoping that as a result of having a few of these conversations with people, I'll better understand how users in general get involved, how the adoptee / adopter pairings work out, and so on. Let me know. Thanks! SeparateWays (talk) 19:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there,

Yes, I'd be more than happy to do that :) You may not want to take the phone call route (although i'm more than happy to) as i'm in the UK! If you want to shoot me an email so we can make the arrangements. Best wishes, Jules.
 * Great, thanks! I've sent you email. SeparateWays (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for being so helpful -- it was much appreciated! (Figured I should add some closure here.) SeparateWays (talk) 20:44, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You're most welcome, it was great chatting with you! Feel free to email me if you have any more questions and to let me know how the research goes :) Zephfya (talk) 15:14, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space
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The question you were asking about in IRC...
Maybe Dispute resolution is what you're trying to find? It lists all the steps. Cheers, --Shearonink (talk) 04:09, 1 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you Shearonink, much appreciated. I've taken action to appease him and will consider further action on the dispute and his refusal to leave me alone tomorrow. Zephfya (talk) 04:39, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

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