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:You already have a discussion on this at many different places. Please stop personally asking every administrator you run across to help you. The discussion at the BLP noticeboard should be sufficient to help you. By posting complaints at editor assistance, RfC, arbitration requests, COI, requests for feedback, AIV, ''and'' the talk pages of all these administrators, you are actually making things ''more'' difficult. Please stop doing so, or your edits will go from being simply uninformed mistakes to disruption, and could even warrant a block against your account. <span style="font-family: Georgia">– [[User:GorillaWarfare|GorillaWarfare]] <sup>[[User talk:GorillaWarfare|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/GorillaWarfare|contribs]]</sup></span> 19:23, 31 March 2011 (UTC) |
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Mentor
Help! I am an MPA student at WCU and new to Wikipedia, need all the help I can get. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvpolicy11 (talk • contribs) 19:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
- Responded on your talk page. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 04:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Our assignment for this week was to research and list 3 articles we are considering for our main project. I have chosen Epidemiology of Domestic Violence, Murder of Pregnant Women, or Women's Shelter as my 3. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ThanksDvpolicy11 (talk) 00:46, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- I think we can work with these! Murder of pregnant women is a good choice because it can definitely use expansion, particularly to include non-US murder of pregnant women (as shown by the template at the top). Women's shelter is another good choice because it could also use expansion. Epidemiology of domestic violence is a bit of a concern in that it's already a pretty well-fleshed-out article. Do you have ideas of what you would add to it? Sometimes really comprehensive articles like that one are difficult to improve. I've gathered that you're interested in the topic of domestic violence -- have you seen Category:Domestic violence? If you decide you do want to change any of your topics, you could probably find some more ideas there. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 02:14, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I have decided on Murder of Pregnant Women as my Wiki page. I discussed this with my professor last week and we determined it could use some updates in the areas of current research, hard data, discussing the link between domestic violence and the murder of pregnant women, and include info about state policies (since this is a public policy class). Let me know what you think...thanks for your help.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 22:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds good! All of those changes sound fine. I look forward to working with you on it. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 00:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I need help determining how to cite and reference in-text. We have to begin a preliminary paragraph next week. Thanks for your help.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 01:22, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
I have posted my preliminary paragraphs in my Sandbox. Would you take a look at them and let me know how to move them to the Murder of Pregnant Women Wiki page? I have a graph (or a link) that I would like to add that shows state laws. Could you help with that as well? Thanks...Dvpolicy11 (talk) 19:42, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Looks like they did not separate into paragraphs...how do I fix that?Dvpolicy11 (talk) 19:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for suggestions to my Murder of Pregnant Women Page...I have made changes as far as section headings...and will work on the quotes. Dvpolicy11 (talk) 17:06, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds good. I'll look at the article more thoroughly this afternoon. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 17:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Citations
Sure, no problem. First I would like to direct you to two handouts: File:WikipediaReferencing.pdf and File:RefCodeHandout.pdf. These are probably more coherent than this explanation. There is also WP:Citing sources, although that might err on the side of too in-depth... Anyway, citations seem complex but are actually relatively simple. They are generally made up of a citation template enclosed in HTML tags. Then, at the end of the page in the "References" section, they are all displayed. The numbering and linking into the article is all automatic.
So, say I wanted to cite an article like this one from the New York Times regarding Wikipedia. The citation would look like:
<ref>{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Noam|title=Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?scp=2&sq=wikipedia&st=cse|accessdate=11 February 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=30 January 2011}}</ref>
You can see the <ref> and </ref> elements on either side of the citation template. That template looks complicated but it's really not. I highly recommend something called "RefTools". You can turn it on in My preferences > Gadgets. It's under "Editing gadgets". It's explained pretty thoroughly at Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0, but it's pretty self explanatory. Once it's enabled, you can click a tab above the editing box that says "Cite". There will be a dropdown box that says "Templates", and you can choose either web, news, book, or journal. It will then give you fields to fill in. It's incredibly simple, and provides nicely formatted citations like the one above.
Another useful thing for citations is the use of named references. This allows you to easily cite a source more than once. Say, for example, I wanted to use that citation above. I could provide a name in the reference tag that would allow me to reuse it:
<ref name=Cohen>{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Noam|title=Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?scp=2&sq=wikipedia&st=cse|accessdate=11 February 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=30 January 2011}}</ref>
Then, anytime I wanted to use that citation again, I would just insert <ref name=Cohen/>
(note the slash) instead of the entire reference template.
To display the references at the end of the article, you add the References section (==References==
) and then underneath that, either {{reflist}}
or </references>
.
I hope this helped! Your mentor will probably go over this as well. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 01:51, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi...I have made some changes to the article on my user page...sandbox. I added section headings and would like some info on how to move it to the main page. Thanks for adding reference section. Will that section transfer to the mainpage intact?Dvpolicy11 (talk) 16:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- The article is not ready to be moved to the mainspace quite yet. I don't have much time right now to help you out with it, but I'll give you a more thorough answer in a few hours. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 17:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi..I made changes to the section headings and will be doing rework to the body tonight. Thanks for your help.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 19:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
- I've replied at User talk:Dvpolicy11/Sandbox. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 19:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi...I have made some changes to the body. Please look over it when you have an opportunity. I need to move the article (or what version I have of it) into the Wiki main space before Thursday. My professor knows that we are not going to have completed articles but he does want to see response from other Wiki users. Your on-going help is greatly appreciated.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 01:59, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
- I've replied at User talk:Dvpolicy11/Sandbox. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 04:03, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestions...they are a great help. I am going to ask if I can delay moving my page until the week-end. I will go through each of your suggestions and then ask for more help. Thanks againDvpolicy11 (talk) 21:18, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
- Alright. Let me know what your professor decides. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 21:19, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. My professor has extended the date that we must have our article posted on the main page until Monday. I have made some changes. Please review and give me some feedback! Thanks for all your help.I would like to keep the title of the article as is due to the fact that I am attempting to improve an existing page.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 20:07, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- Terrific. I'll go through the article again and leave feedback on the talk page. As for improving the existing page: that's fine, just make sure you don't lose any of the valuable information in the existing article. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 04:03, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi again. I have made more changes to the article and wanted to let you know that I apologize for borrowing your opening words and will change them if thats a problem. I would like to keep the original article title and just work my updates into it. There is some great info there already. Please review at your convenience and I will need your assistance in moving the article tomorrow. Thanks so much...Dvpolicy11 (talk) 21:30, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
- The changes look good. Don't worry about using my opening words -- this is Wikipedia after all, so I'm fine with anything I write being reused. I think choosing to add your article around some of the text in the existing article is a good decision. Because you're adding to an existing article, you don't have to use the actual move function. You will be able to simply copy and paste your text around the existing text, combining the two in whatever order makes most sense. This is known as a "selective paste merger", and is explained in detail at WP:SMERGE. Please note, however, that steps 3, 5, 7, and 8 of WP:SMERGE are not required because you are using text that you have completely written yourself in the userspace. When you save the page, you should use an edit summary like: "Expanding article using text from [[User:Dvpolicy11/Sandbox]]". – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 21:44, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
When I copy and paste do both articles need to be in edit mode? All the info you provided about the move is a huge help. ThanksDvpolicy11 (talk) 02:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, otherwise you'll lose the formatting. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 02:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
One other question...when I copy & paste my references will they automatically reformat with old and new info?Dvpolicy11 (talk) 14:47, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Mentor...I have merged my article into the original and thus answered my own question about references. Thanks for your help and please look over the page when you get an opportunity.Dvpolicy11 (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
RA reform
Hi GW. You may find this interesting and perhaps you might like to consider joining the task force. The project is running following a thread I started at Jimbo's tp. --Kudpung (talk) 15:52, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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Cropped Image.....
You sent me a message concerning the image I cropped. By the time you replied, I was out and now I do see the one I updated. Thanks for your help it's appreciated. Adamdaley (talk) 09:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- No problem! Glad it worked out. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 14:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Again!
Hello GorillaWarfare! You are the one who wrote the retired template on my homepage when I retired, well I'm back now! But this time I Promise not to write Vandalism on Wikipedia. So Hello again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Souvalou (talk • contribs) 20:18, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- Oh good! I'm always happy to see users return. I'm also happy to hear you won't be vandalizing. Let me know if you need any help with anything! – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 20:45, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
O.K., Thanks!--Souvalou (talk) 21:16, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
RfA
Hi GW. I notice you haven't signed up for this. There's no obligation of course and I know you're very busy and it may take up more of your time, but your input would be most welcome. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:39, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- I think I'm going to pass on this. I only occasionally weigh in at RfA, and I'm not even sure what my opinion is regarding the whole reform thing. I also don't know how much time I'll have to commit. I appreciate the offers, though, and will definitely try to keep an eye on how things are progressing. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 12:26, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- No problems, but feel free to chime in any time. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. Perhaps I shall. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 15:43, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- No problems, but feel free to chime in any time. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Ronn Torossian
Notice you are an administrator and am hoping can assist on Ronn Torossian page. Slanderous BLP article there with blog mentions and sources claimed which arent in the actual references. Regardless if or if not of Sockpuppet, does not allow a BLP to be biased in this extreme. Greenbay1313 (talk) 17:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC) --greenbay1313 (talk) 18:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- You already have a discussion on this at many different places. Please stop personally asking every administrator you run across to help you. The discussion at the BLP noticeboard should be sufficient to help you. By posting complaints at editor assistance, RfC, arbitration requests, COI, requests for feedback, AIV, and the talk pages of all these administrators, you are actually making things more difficult. Please stop doing so, or your edits will go from being simply uninformed mistakes to disruption, and could even warrant a block against your account. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 19:23, 31 March 2011 (UTC)