Spry895

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July 2010

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of world map changes. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 06:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

John Kennedy Presidential Trips

In your file about president JFK trips around the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_President_John_Kennedy_Presidential_Trips.PNG) you forgot to include Venezuela. He and Jackie visited Caracas in December 1961 (See the picture: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset+Tree/Asset+Viewers/Image+Asset+Viewer.htm?guid=%7B611D9DF9-56BF-4723-B9CA-BE4938398A70%7D&type=Image). Please, correct it, thank you. Rafael (talk) 03:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.75.48.216 (talk)

Presidential trips maps

I was interested in your additions of the presidential trips images you added to several articles. However, there are two problems I noted. The first is that there are no citations for any of the maps. I would like to know where you got the information to make these maps. The second is that most of the maps do not reflect national borders at the time of each presidency. For example, does not show Europe during the Cold War or the existence of the Soviet Union. These two problems should be corrected. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any thoughts or information. Andy120290 (talk) 01:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Presidential Cabinet Members.jpg

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Vandalism spree

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add "Prince" to serial references to the President of France as you have done in the articles listed below, you may be blocked from editing.

• diff 16:53, 11 May 2011 G-20 major economies ‎ (→Member countries and organizations)
• diff 16:55, 11 May 2011 2008 G-20 Washington summit ‎ (→Core participants)
• diff 16:57, 11 May 2011 2009 G-20 London Summit ‎ (→Core participants)
• diff 16:58, 11 May 2011 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit ‎ (→Core participants)
• diff 16:59, 11 May 2011 2010 G-20 Toronto summit ‎ (→Core participants)
• diff 17:00, 11 May 2011 2010 G-20 Seoul summit ‎ (→Attendance)
• diff 17:01, 11 May 2011 2011 G-20 Cannes summit ‎ (→Attendance)
• diff 17:02, 11 May 2011 2011 G-20 Cannes summit ‎ (→Agenda)
• diff 17:04, 11 May 2011 2012 G-20 Mexico summit ‎ (→Attendance)
• diff 17:08, 11 May 2011 2010 Nuclear Security Summit ‎ (→Leaders at the summit)

You really do need to stop now. --Tenmei (talk) 17:54, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Please help!

I want to make a visit map like the one you made for George H.W. Bush. I have the list of nations, but I don't know how to make the map. Please contact me on my talk page and I'll send you the list. It's on Muammar Gaddafi

Sincerely,

Screwball23 talk 20:20, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Some tips to help you out!

Hi Spry895, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Spry895/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 12:12, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Spry895/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Something to make your life easier!

Hi there Spry895! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you might appreciate some help with references.

You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 12:12, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Interphil Laboratories

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It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Interphil Laboratories saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 12:17, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:22, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Ways to improve List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong

Hello, Spry895,

Thanks for creating List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Please add your references.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Boleyn}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

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Boleyn (talk) 13:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 07:07, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Draft:List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong concern

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Your draft article, Draft:List of international trips made by Kim Yo-jong

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Proposed deletion of Interphil Laboratories

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Unsourced stub about a non-notable lab.

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JPII travels maps

Hello. In your maps of travels of JPII (1, 2), could you indicate what is the source for the map you used as well as what the colours on those maps mean? Veverve (talk) 21:04, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Benigno aquino travel map+japan+2.png

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Proposed deletion of File:Benigno aquino travel map+thailand.png

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