User talk:Avisron

Coding

Do you need any help on using the coding, buddy? I see it's on your profile and also I reverted one of your edits to Kurt Cobain as you had put <ref><ref> completely out of the blue! Just message me if you need any help, friend, and I will try and get round to helping you out. Scarian^Talk 21:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

No worries, happy to help. Right, what do you need help with first? Citing a website is pretty easy - you already got the first bit <ref></ref>. Those, obviously, are citation tags. You stick a web address in between those after a piece of text and it becomes a citation. Say if I said, "Grass is green" , that would be my proof saying grass is green. Remember, you must have a forward slash in the closing tag, this tells Wikipedia to end the coding.

Do you know how to inter-link pages? Basically it is two of these brackets [ (Can't remember their name) around each side. So if I wanted to direct you to Cheese on Wikipedia I'd put two of those brackets around it [[Cheese]]. But, if I wanted to interlink a word, but didn't want you to send you to the word (If that makes sense)... I would put [[England|Cheese]] becomes Cheese. This time, clicking on cheese would send you to England. The difference in that is the | line thing... I seperated the link I wanted you to go to from the word.

If you click on 'Edit this page', you would notice that around some of the blank tags I have put <nowiki> - that is the tag which stops Wikipedia from recognising the coding so I can show it to you. Now, warnings... there are dozens of different warnings in Wikipedia, it's like they just love antagonising vandal I.P.'s... I, personally, cannot only remember a couple, but they are characterised by the { bracket... (Can't remember its name either but it's the squiggely one). So for example, the only one I know - <nowiki>{{vandal1}} - the squiggely bracket signifies it's a template. So the [ bracket's are links. And the squiggely ones { are for warnings and barnstars etc.

Another highly used coding of mine is ^{[citation needed]}. For example, "Grass is green" {{fact}} - because I don't have a citation for that statement I would stick a ^{[citation needed]} tag on the end of it. This alert's users that the statement needs a reference in order to be verified.

Another favourite of mine is the tag... If for example someone said, "Nirvana is the greatest band in the world" I would stick {{weasel-word}} on it, because, despite being true, it stills needs verification.

Basically, they will become second nature to you... you will begin remembering the codes the longer you use them. I was always looking up certain codes because I couldn't remember them and lots of veteran users still do.

Here is a list of Wikipedia sites that have coding help on them if you need it; WP:CIT - How to cite, WP:WARN - Vandal warning, and WP:TC - General clean up.

This site here is a basic overview of all the template messages you can use - if you're looking for a specific code just look around in there and see if you can find it.[1]

Hopefully I have been of some assistance and I hope I haven't been doing things you already knew about! If you need any more specific help don't hesitate to contact me. All the best. Scarian^Talk 05:41, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

No worries, my friend. If you need any other help sometime, don't hesitate to ask. :-) Scarian^Talk 05:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

RE: Sprint/NEXTEL Cup

Hey, no worries, it's not a problem. It's actually happened a lot lately but in month it can all be changed. Sorry if I came off a little harsh, at all. Thanks! Caster23 ^{talk contribs} 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

February 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your recent edits to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have been reverted as they could be seen to be defamatory or potentially libellous. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 15:32, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Note: After review of Avisron's contribution history, the edit that generated the warning placed above by me appears to be very unusual for the this editor. Avisron: Could you please explain? Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 16:08, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Uh, yeah, sorry for the months-in-waiting response. I'm not sure what the deal with that was. The only thing I can think of is that I left my account signed in on a high school computer. Avisron (talk) 23:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

GM

Hello. Regarding the page GM. Specifically, the description of the entry for General Motors. There's only one article about an automobile manufacturing company that might be referenced as "GM". As such, the entry needs no further qualification beyond "automobile manufacturing company". Disambiguation pages are intended to be "sign-posts". They help the reader find the article they are looking for, when a given page name (such as GM) can refer to more than one article. They are not and should not attempt to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Indeed, the briefer, the better. Short entries need less maintenance as the world changes. Removing the qualification also means there is no need for people to edit war over the qualification. Removing needless cause for edit wars is a good thing. Remember, Wikipedia is not a battleground. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 21:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Smithsonian Institution Archives Edit-a-Thon and Meetup!

Who should come? You should. Really.
	She Blinded Me with Science: Smithsonian Women in Science Edit-a-Thon will be held on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Smithsonian Archives in Washington, D.C. This edit-a-thon will focus on improving and writing Wikipedia content about women from the Smithsonian who contributed to the sciences. It will be followed by a happy hour meetup! We look forward to seeing you there!

...and if you do not live in the Washington, D.C. area, please forgive the intrusion and you can delete this invite! Sarah (talk) 16:19, 8 March 2012 (UTC)