February 2009
editWelcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Guy Sebastian has been reverted.
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Image copyright problem with File:Bring Yourself 2009-04-04.ogg
editThanks for uploading File:Bring Yourself 2009-04-04.ogg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like {{PD-self}} (to release all rights), {{self|CC-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.
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Signature and other things
editHi Diane. No problem about the Guy Sebastian thing. I hope you didn't feel bad about the comments regarding the images. There was no blame being attached, it was more like "this isn't the right way to do it, so we need to fix it". With regards to signatures, it's all explained here - Wikipedia:Signatures. I'll give you a quick run down. When you make a post on an article talk page or a user talk page, type in four tildes at the end. They will just look like squiggly symbols when you type them in, but when you preview or save the message it converts to your user name and time. The tilde is at the top left of the keyboard under the escape key and it looks like ~. You'll have to hold the shift key when you're hitting the ~ key. Just practice on your talk page if you like and type in a little message and then ~~~~, then hit the show preview button and you'll see that when the message appears it will show your signature. Then when you save the page it becomes permanent. Let me know if you have any problems. You're right, it's a learning curve but there are always people willing to help.
Also if you're looking for "how to" information one way I find things is to go to the search window and type in "WP:Signature" or something. The "WP" will narrow the search to Wikipedia information pages so that will be policies and guidelines and "how to" stuff, rather than articles. If you type a general word like "quotation" or "signature" or whatever, it usually comes up with a choice that will lead to an instruction page. That's how I found the signature page. I didn't know it was there, but I kind of knew how to look for it. Hope this helps. Cheers Rossrs (talk) 08:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Rossrs - it is good to get feedback - it is how you learn and grow your skills as an editor - it seems that another editor has taken on board comments and is editing the page - so that is good!
and you know if all it takes is to type four tildes at the end - that is what I have been doing but my preview always looks like this
practice Diane 08:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
I am wondering whether I have something in my settings that is preventing this to properly come up...
thank you anyways I will go check out the links you provided
Diane 08:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
practice Diane 09:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Guy
editHi Diane, I hope everything's going well for you. I don't know what would be the best way of dealing with the Guy Aussie Idol page, because I can't find a similar page for any other Idol winners. I think the article content is fine, but the infobox doesn't look right. I would be inclined to use an image without an infobox. Bette Davis filmography is an example. That way you can include whatever caption you wish, but you don't have to worry about unnecessary fields. I have never seen an "Idol Performance" type article before, and the closest thing I can relate it to would be filmographies, so the layout could be similar. From that point of view I think the layout is fine. Now - someone may object to the article. It's the sort of article that could be listed at articles for deletion on the basis that it could be merged into the Guy Sebastian article. The other side of the coin is that it's already been removed from the article as a way of trimming it. I honestly don't know what the right or wrong of it would be, if someone did follow that line of thought.
The only problem I see with it now is the naming. The way you've named it is the way biographical articles are named when there is more than one person with the same name. For example if you click on Paul Kelly you'll see all the different articles for people named Paul Kelly. The article you've created is not a biographical article but a list, therefore the name needs to be changed. There are a couple of ways you could do it. If you wanted to expand it to include all performances for that season, you could have something like List of Australian Idol Season One performances. If you want to keep it just about Guy, it would need to be List of Guy Sebastian's Australian Idol performances. Or - if you go to Category:Lists and start clicking on some of the lists and sublists, you may see something you consider more suitable. You would then need to insure that it is linked from his article. At the moment it is an "orphan", meaning that you can't link to it from any other article. (If you go to the article and click on "what links here" you'll see it only links to my talk page.) For someone to find the article and look at it, they would need to know it's called "Guy Sebastian (Winner Australian Idol 2003)" or they would need to be looking at my talk page or at one of the category pages. It should be linked from his article the same way as his discography. If you can decide how you would like to name it, I can help you with making a redirect page for it and thereby setting it up under a new name, and also linking it from his article. Rossrs (talk) 08:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Guy Sebastian (Winner Australian Idol 2003)
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An article that you have been involved in editing, Guy Sebastian (Winner Australian Idol 2003), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guy Sebastian (Winner Australian Idol 2003). Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. (Hey, just adding a personal comment: I know you created the page with good intentions, but to me, there's no reason why it should be a standalone page and not part of the actual Guy Sebastian page. However, you can of course feel free to comment on the deletion discussion. Thank you.) SKS (talk) 04:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Portal
editHi Diane, nice to hear from you. Unfortunately I know nothing about portals. I've never really looked into them in any depth, and when I did look at them some time ago, I didn't really understand and gave up on the whole idea. So, I'm in the same boat as you. I had another look after receiving your message and the editing seems to be open to all. If you look at the edit history, there is the same style of editing as here. ie People edit, and if they do something that doesn't fit, it gets revised or reverted. I see no reason why you can't participate and no reason why there should not be a Guy Sebastian project (not portal). Have a look at Wikipedia:Portal and Wikipedia:WikiProject Kylie Minogue. I remember the person who started the Kylie project did it simply because they thought it needed doing, so you can do the same. Projects are usually very welcoming of people who wish to take part, and if you make it known at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian music that you need a little help and advice, I'm sure you'll find someone more than willing. Or you could just message someone who appears to be active in that project. Rossrs (talk) 15:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Diane
I wanted to catch up with you after your recent report at WP:ANI. I've been looking periodically at the talk page, and I've not seen the kind of discussion I'd hoped for, so I'm a wee bit concerned. Are the issues with the lead section resolved, do you think? If so, I'll stop worrying; if not, I'll have another chat with the two editors concerned...!
Cheers, TFOWR 08:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)