Chalbeis

Hi Catherine! I had some issues with my page but it should be all set now, sorry for the inconvenience! User:Jillgeib {talk} —Preceding undated comment added 13:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC).

Hey Catherine! Nice to see you here, Welcome to Wikipedia, feel free to ask me any question, I'll be happy to help you. One small note though, please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) when you leave messages on talk pages. Have a good day! Lynch7 14:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

That's great :) Lynch7 14:24, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Hey to you too!

I'm still getting used to this whole Wiki thing. It's Ricky if you couldn't tell. I sent a message to someone a while back but I thought to get back to you while I was up and yes I totally forgot to send in my stuff before work tonight so I hope he accepts it still, I really didn't mean to! I like a lot of stuff punk rock is my favorite and since coming to college I started getting into dubstep, house, and other forms of electronic music. How about yourself? Snarkyr2unit91 (talk) 05:24, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Topics

You've got some great ideas for topics - specifically about food. I'm always hungry as well. Food has always been a centerpiece of life - it is where we gather, it is what we think about, it is not only essential but it is something that we try to enjoy multiple times a day. I'm sure you'll find amazing awesome stuff about food. As for your links, try linking to the WIkipedia page rather than an "external link" - rather than using the whole URL just use the stuff past the /wiki/ - such as [[Pokémon]] rather than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon]] Debaser42 (talk) 19:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Citing sources

Hi Catherine, about citing sources, here are some points:

• I assume you know where to cite from; a book, journal, a reliable website (not blogs), a newspaper, or a magazine. Read this for more info on types of sources.
• Now, the citing part is very easy: click on the "Edit" button, and edit the article as you normally would. Click on the place where you want to insert the cite.
• On the top of the editing box, you will see a small button which says "Cite". Click on that, and you will get a small menu.
• Click on the box which says "Templates", and select the type of source you have: Web, news, book or journal.
• You will get a neat box wherein you will be asked for the details. Fill all the details you know, leave the rest blank. Click "Insert".
• Your cite is ready to use. Just save the page.
• In the end of the page, just add the text: ==References== {{reflist}}

After you've done this, your text will look something like:

The photograph featured on the front cover of the single was taken by photographer Emmet Gowin in Danville, Virginia in 1969.

References

-- Hope this helps! Regards, Lynch7 15:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Awesome, you found out how to cite sources. A small thing: You don't need to put the "(Edited 2/10/12)" note at the end of the edit. Lynch7 04:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Your article

I've moved it back to your standbox since it isn't really ready to be an article yet. The topic is also likely to need narrowing a bit. Food treds is a bit imprecise as a title since it could cover well anything from the movement of the standard food basket out of the Fertile Crescent onwards.©Geni 05:37, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Article Review

Hello - please do some work cleaning up your article. You have a "testing sources" section that does not belong there. You need to do some work on your article before people can give you constructive feedback on where to take your article next. Debaser42 (talk) 15:34, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Food trends

The article Food trends has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

mess. not clear what the article is about and not a useful starting point for writing a viable article.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ©Geni 19:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Food trends for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Food trends is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food trends until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Yunshui 雲‍水 10:17, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

• Catherine. I found the article, in its current form, much too much like a personal essay to stand as an encyclopedia article and I fear it will succumb to the deletion process without a lot of quick work. I did post a few quick links to news articles in my comment on the deletion discussion page for the article. I think the subject can be developed into an appropriate article, based on the sources I was able to find with very little effort. A suggestion: an administrator (which I'm not) can move the entire article to a subpage of your user page (this is called userfying) where it can be worked on without so many eyes seeking to give it the rush out the door. You can even invite collaborators to help and also have the article reviewed by other editors for helpful hints at various stages of development. Once developed, the article can be moved back to mainspace, where the articles reside. On the userfy page, there is a list of admins willing to do this (userfy) for you. Don't give up! Geoff ^{Who, me?} 22:07, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

• I've closed the AFD discussion as delete but have userfied the article to User:Chalbeis/Food trends. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:24, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Article

Hello - your article, Lifestyle_trends_and_media is still very short and includes some obvious problems (such as "testing sources") that should have already been overcome. Additionally, there is nothing in your talk page, suggesting that your editors haven't given you any feedback. You have VERY little time left to write your article and I suggest you not only continue to work hard on this but also request feedback from your editors ASAP. Debaser42 (talk) 13:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Removing AfD templates

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:29, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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