SherryOcean

Wikilinks and a note on drafts

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I wanted to let you know that a number of your recent edits are probably unnecessary, and I thought you might have made them because you didn't realise the wiki software is already doing the hard work for you. When a word is surrounded by brackets like this:

 [[word]]

the software will automatically go looking for an article named Word. You don't need to help it out by changing links to:

 [[Word|word]]

Hopefully my explanation makes sense! Also, I notice you refer to such changes in the edit summary as citations. They're really just wikilinks. Citations are references to support the statements you make in your article (which I see you have plenty of in your draft, that's great). The reason I make the point is it might lead to confusion later on when discussing with other editors.

Finally, when preparing a draft and waiting for a review you might not want to place the draft page in disambiguation pages such as Zinger. This might lead to users being taken to the page before it's been reviewed and ready.

Hope this is helpful and not TMI! If you want to reply to this message, edit the section and add a colon next to your reply, like:

 :This is my reply... ~~~~

The four tildes are turned into your signature when you publish. Cheers, Basie (talk) 20:57, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

:This is my reply...SherryOcean (talk) 21:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Hopefully I'm replying correctly. If not, I'll soon find out. LOL Thank you for all the information!

I have a some questions:

1. If the word I'm using is to be lowercase instead of the uppercase found in the Wiki URL and I use [[word]], will it find the correct Wiki link and keep my lowercase in the article?
2. Do I need to go back and change my edit summaries to something else in the one's that I used the word "citations" in?
3. What should I be saying in the edits instead?
4. Sometimes there's already words written in the edit summary - should I just keep them instead of writing something else?
5. Should I put my 4 tildes at the beginning and end of my reply and/or comments?

Thanks so much for your assistance! SherryOcean (talk) 21:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

No worries at all! With the replies, if you use a <br /> tag the colon in the reply won't do its job. You might notice that I've used two colons here... each successive reply uses one more colon, so each reply is indented a little more.

1. If I've understood your question correctly, yes :) The idea is that you can just include a word like healthcare in a sentence without having to capitalise it.
2. No, there's no need to change the edit summaries (in fact, you can't).
3. Something simple like Fix healthcare WL (WL is short for wikilink)... although of course they didn't really need fixing!
4. You may be seeing summaries like /* Section Title */? If you see one of those, it's because you're editing a section. You should put your summary after that, because it will help other editors understand which part of the article you changed.
5. Just the end, to sign off: Basie (talk) 22:27, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Let's see if I can get this colon indent reply thing right. I added 4 colons because 3 didn't really indent enough.

Thanks so much for all your answers!

BTW is there a list somewhere of topics that people need Wiki articles written for?

Have a great day! SherryOcean (talk) 12:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

You got it! Yeah, it looks like a small indent when you only add one colon, but trust me on a big page with lots of people responding to a thread, it becomes a necessity :)

You might not know about wikiprojects. There are a bunch of 'em... I edit in medical, nursing, New Zealand, and computing areas mostly. I suggest picking your favourite topics, or something you're particularly knowledgeable about, and seeing if there's a project that covers it. Such projects can be a way of finding like-minded editors and pages that need work. For example, because your article was about a mobility tool, you might be interested in WP:DISABILITY. Or, because the company is from Virginia, you could check out WP:VIRGINIA. Or because maybe you like parakeets, you could look at WP:BIRDS. Basie (talk) 20:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

WOW! Thank you! That info gave me lots to ponder. I think I'm going to just stick to five topics so that I'm not all over the place. Plus, I read a lot of books about these topics, so I am more familiar with them. I think I will write about:

1. Online retailers of the United States
2. American retail chief executives
3. Disability related topics
4. Aging
5. Virginia

You've been so helpful Basie. All tips and advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks again! SherryOcean (talk) 13:52, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Zinger (mobility device) (June 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Zinger (mobility device) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Zinger (mobility device), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, SherryOcean! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have 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! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

You're invited

Hello, SherryOcean, I have noticed your interest in articles related to Disability. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Disability, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles dealing with disability on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you. I just added myself. SherryOcean (talk) 13:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)