Dreduardoa
Welcome!
editHello, Dreduardoa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Some links...
edit...that should help you write articles:
- Your first article
- Referencing for beginners
- Notability (people)
- Notability (academics)
- Reliable sources
Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 04:04, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
And remember...
edit...to not post personal information on Wikipedia talkpages. Shearonink (talk) 04:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Your sandbox page
editJust a quick note — when you edit the Help Desk, it's a good idea to create a separate header for your question. You can do this by editing the page just like you did before, but putting the header name between two equals signs.
==Sample header==
That's what I'm talking about. It will make it easier for other people to see where one conversation stops and another starts.
On the subject of your sandbox, there are several things that should be done. First, I must admit that the page looks rather promotional; in other words, it sounds as if you're trying to talk about how great Anhalt is, rather than describing him neutrally. Right now, the page looks like a fleshed-out résumé rather than the sort of biography that you'd find in a printed encyclopedia. Secondly, you have some substantial formatting errors; this is not something that will get you "in trouble", but something that makes the page appear wrongly. When you're trying to provide a link to another website, enclose the link in one bracket rather than two; [http://www.example.com] produces a link to http://www.example.com, but [[http://www.example.com]] makes the software think that you're sending readers to an article that would be located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http://www.example.com. Also, to produce citations, the simplest way is to insert them directly. You can do this with a simple cut/paste: cut the reference from the numbered list, find the number in your text, delete the number, paste the reference, and enclose it with <ref> and </ref> characters, like I did here. Finally, if you want to produce a bulleted numbered list, don't simply make new lines and number each of them; the software won't know what you're doing, so you'll just get a paragraph with numbers in the middle. Instead, replace each number with the # character; this will automatically bullet them and keep them in numerical order, so you won't have to renumber them if you add or subtract one in the middle of the list. Nyttend (talk) 02:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- I'm guessing this is what you were going to ask me about? It sounds like Anhalt is notable - that is, that he should have an article here. I'm assuming that he really is the dean of a real school like your draft says, of course - I didn't check your references. Much of the rest is style, like Nyttend said. However, I do have a few content suggestions. Were any of the positions Anhalt held named chairs (e.g. the John Smith Chair of Subject)? Has he gotten involved in any significant controversies? Many academics won't have, but if he has, they should be mentioned regardless of whether they would make him look good or bad. The second-to-last paragraph (the long one about presiding over events) should either be shortened or something should make clear why each of the items listed is important. Finally, as Nyttend said, the article should sound like you are describing him impartially, not like you are a fan or promoter. Oh, and if you can take a picture of him or find a freely licensed picture, that would be awesome!
- Don't let this discourage you - you're off to a good start! Creating your first article is always tricky - but you'll get the hang of it in no time. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:47, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation
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- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Edward Francis Anhalt.
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Hello! Dreduardoa,
I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. Any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
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I have nominated Edward Francis Anhalt for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Francis Anhalt. Cunard (talk) 20:27, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:Ed Anhalt, 2008.jpg
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Thanks for uploading File:Ed Anhalt, 2008.jpg, which you've sourced to http://www.iugrad.edu.kn/eanhalt_bio.htm = http://www.iugrad.edu.kn/images/faculty/eanhalt.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
- make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
- Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.
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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 14:48, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
