Richal13
Hello! How are you? Richal13 (talk) 12:40, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Big text
Hello and welcome
editHi -- I got your message on my talk page. I fixed the "big text" you tried out just above -- you'd left off a ">". As you can see, big text is only slightly bigger than regular text. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the class. If you have any questions about Wikipedia or how to do something you need to do for your assignment, just leave a message there and I'll reply here on your talk page as soon as I can. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:28, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Ballotpedia
editBallotpedia and Wikipedia are both wikis; but content on each of the two sites is independent of the other. Inclusion or deletion of subject matter or content on this site has nothing to do with its inclusion or exclusion on that one. We do not treat Ballotpedia itself as a reliable source, although I certainly have used it in the past as a source of leads towards reliable sources. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, Laura -- I got your note on my talk page. Just to expand slightly on what Orange Mike says above: we don't regard Ballotpedia as a reliable source, because anyone can edit it. That means if you find information on Ballotpedia you shouldn't add it to a Wikipedia article and cite it to Ballotpedia. However, if the sources cited by Ballotpedia are reliable, you can check them out and if they support the information given you have a citation. Alternatively if you find unsourced information you can try searching for other sources to support that information. Ask if you have more questions. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:41, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Survey
editHi Richal13!
I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!
It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!
Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!
Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 23:34, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Problems with upload of File:2191ctmqpsa34d.jpg
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Picture
editHi -- I got your message. I saw that you put "Maggie Smith/freedigitalphotos.net" on the picture in the article, but there are a couple more things that we need to do. First, can you tell me where you found it? I looked on freedigitalphotos.net but couldn't see it there -- can you give me a URL for the page it's on, or tell me how to find it? If you can do that I can do most of what's needed after that. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library)
- Thanks for the details (and for the kitten!). I posted a query on the copyright questions noticeboard asking about it; the terms of use (which you can see here) don't look to me as if they allow Wikipedia to use them, but I'm not really an expert so we'll wait and see what they say on the noticeboard. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 06:24, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- There's been no answer at that noticeboard yet; there may still be, of course, but I noticed that someone has removed the picture from the article. I have to say I'm not convinced it's a great picture for the article -- it's a picture of a homeless person, and the article is about voting rights. Of course homeless people have a vote too, and they perhaps have more difficulty than others in exercising that right, but still it doesn't seem all that important an illustration. A picture of a president signing a voting rights act might be more suitable, for example. If you decide to find another picture, and have trouble with the licensing for it, let me know and I'll try to help out again. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)