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= April 6 =

03:06:29, 6 April 2016 review of draft by Organist00
How do i organize and reference my many "references" in the text. I want to link them to above article in numeric fashion as in other wiki. articles? i.s. ;lkj;lkj 1)  for 1st reference hi my name is 2) etc. Organist00 (talk) 03:06, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello, great question; the answer is at WP:Referencing for beginners. Give it a try and ping us if you have any problems. Also, do not leave a blank space at the start of any line,

it causes a coding error, like this
 * So make sure you aren't leaving empty spaces at the start of lines or you'll get those weird gray boxes.
 * Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:12, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

04:12:04, 6 April 2016 review of submission by 786wiki
786wiki (talk) 04:12, 6 April 2016 (UTC) Quick Question: The article I had submitted for review, my first, was titled: Sheikh Muhammad Ikram. It is now shown as: Muhammad Ikram. Would you please educate me, why? (If possible, I would prefer the full name in the title.) Thanks.

786wiki (talk) 04:12, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi 786wiki, the word "Sheikh" is an honorific title, similar to Professor, Doctor, Highness, Excellency, Duke, Chief, and so on. In the English Wikipedia we do not use such honorifics in articles - we use only the person's actual name - with very few exceptions, mostly for royalty who are almost always referred to by their titles. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:13, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

786wiki (talk) 19:14, 7 April 2016 (UTC) Hi Rodger. I couldn't find a "Reply" button so I hope this works! You are quite right: in Arab countries, "Sheikh" is an honorific (for an old person--the word for "old age" in Arabic is shaykhūkha!); in India and Pakistan, however, it is used as a proper name. So, unlike in an Arab country, when Ikram would have been admitted to primary school, his name would have been registered as: "Sheikh Muhammad Ikram" (which would be unthought of for a child in the Arab world), and that is how he is known! May I request therefore that in this case his actual name, as it would appear on his birth certificate had there been one at the time, be given as Sheikh Muhammad Ikram. Thanks. PS Please, for future reference, can you educate me on the proper way to reply in this situation. Thank you! 786wiki (talk) 19:13, 7 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi . "Sheikh" is a common name (rather than title) in Bangladesh too. Sheikh Muhammad Ikram is how the first line of the page should start, but it may not be the best title for the page. For the article title, Wikipedia uses the name most frequently used by reliable English-language sources, which is not necessarily the subject's complete official name. The draft says he was better known as S. M. Ikram. If that's how most sources refer to him, that should be the title of the article, much as we have SM Sultan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sheikh Hasina. You probably have the ability to move the draft to the new name on your own.


 * Help:Using talk pages gives some tips on communication, such as when and how to indent. If you want to be sure a specific editor otices a discussion that isn't on their talk page, it's a good idea to use their name in some sort of notification template, such as ping. --Worldbruce (talk) 22:06, 7 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, Thanks! Yes, "S. M. Ikram" would work too — "Muhammad Ikram" (as presently titled) doesn't ring right. So, How do I go about changing the title page? Or, would it be too much to ask one of the more experienced members, or the editor, to do it for me? Many thanks, again. 786wiki (talk) 10:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks! Yes, "S. M. Ikram" would work too — "Muhammad Ikram" (as presently titled) doesn't ring right. So, How do I go about changing the title page? Or, would it be too much to ask one of the more experienced members, or the editor, to do it for me? Many thanks, again. 786wiki (talk) 10:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I've moved it for you. For future reference you'll find the "move" option to the right on the tabs across the top, sometimes hidden in the "more" drop down menu. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:31, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Request on 09:01:16, 6 April 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Christos Evangeli
Christos Evangeli (talk) 09:01, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I wrote a page on New Zealand writer Joan Rosier Jones. As I was in a hurry i somehow failed to delete the Andreas Koukoumas a previous page that i had written for Wikipedia. Can you please re name it an post it and I will go through and sort out anyhting else that is required. Sorry about that. It's been a while since I have donne this. many thanks. Christos


 * Hi Christos Evangeli, an easy way to fix this is to copy all the content that is about Jones to a new draft page Draft:Joan Rosier Jones and add to the page to submit it for review. You have to do this yourself while you are logged in so that you are correctly "registered" as the creator of the page. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

12:06:34, 6 April 2016 review of submission by OriChayun
Hi. I need someone to check the grammar in a draft I created Draft:Spice_(singer). English is not my native language, so I think there might be minor mistakes. Thank you.

OriChayun (talk) 12:06, 6 April 2016 (UTC)