L.Sochava

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This is your Talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss things with them. At the end of your messages you should always enter your signature by signing with four ~~~~ or by pressing the button in the editor shown here in the picture. By the way, it is not necessary to sign edits that you make in the articles themselves as those messages will be deleted. My name is Brendon. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, post {{helpme|your question}} on your talk page (this page), someone will quickly come up and attend to your query. And also, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist. Good Luck Editing!  Brendon ishere 11:44, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Tips on your user page

First thing first,

Do you like your user-page, L.Sochava?

If yes, then cool . Ignore the rest of the message.

"Show preview" button highlighted

"Save page" button highlighted

However, if you don't like it and want to make it look even better, then follow these steps (and in that case, I'm happy to help):

1. Open your your user page.
2. Click "edit this page"/"edit" (above) to edit the page
3. Add - {{New user bar}} or {{New user bar|Image name of your choice}} above everything else in the content area of that page (whatever you write below and the Image, if any, will be shown under the section "About me").
4. click "show preview" (below)
5. Now, if you like it, click "save page" (below).

In case you cannot find the buttons

Here are some codes that might help, the codes work on internet explorer and other browsers like Mozilla firefox, google chrome too. If they don't work try clicking ↵ Enter after pressing the keys of code.

1. ⇧ Shift+alt+e - "Edit the page"
2. ⇧ Shift+alt+p - "Show Preview"
3. ⇧ Shift+alt+s - "save page"

Note:

See also: Wikipedia:KB

1. Mac OS X-users must hold control (in stead of ⇧ Shift+alt), and press the desired access key (e, p or s), I guess.
2. If these keys don't work by themselves press ↵ Enter after them without changing the order, to initiate the intended process.

I hope this helps.  Brendon ishere 11:44, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! L.Sochava, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 01:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Welcome

I saw your article on Off-Center Ions. You have demonstrated that you understand that Wikipedia provides general overview of topics. Here are some additional guidelines:

• per WP:SECONDARY: we focus on secondary references (reviews and books). Citing a lot of journal articles takes little skill. The real benefits come from general sources (like your book!) that contextualize journal articles. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a competitor for Chemical Reviews. So be selective in your referencing. By the way, references are more useful when you provide titles and even better DOI's.
• per WP:COI, you need to be careful about conflict of interest. Every researcher around the world seems thinks that they are doing the best stuff and their papers should be cited more often. In fact, about 50000 journal articles appear each year in chemistry, so we have almost zero interest in citing journals unless they are pioneering articles or we just lack a better source. In any case, it appears that you understand this restraint.
• Almost every new editor at Wikipedia-Chemistry participates because they want to cite some of their own work. Given your training, I hope that you will decide to contribute more generally, even on topics that do not require citation of your publications. There are probably many Wiki-articles in your field that could be improved.

Finally, welcome and feel to ask if you have questions. --Smokefoot (talk) 20:41, 2 September 2012 (UTC)