User talk:Président
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Hello, Président, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Restauranteur[edit]
I note you are correcting restauranteur to restaurateur. Please note that is a perfectly acceptable word, noted by the OED from 1859[1]. Tassedethe (talk) 06:47, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
- Moreover, within the context of an article, precedence is one of the deciding factors when determining which spelling convention to use. Keep in mind that language is a dynamic thing- the morphology of which may not be arbitrated unilaterally.--Mavigogun (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Back in July, you added a 'controversy' section to this article, containing several purported quotes: [2]. I have removed this section in accordance with our policy on biographies of living people, as it was unsourced. As that policy says, any controversial content about living people must be supported by a source. If you want to add this material to the article, please find a reliable source which supports it. Thank you. Robofish (talk) 21:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Some tips to help you out![edit]
Hi Président, 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:Président/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!) 11:23, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
How references work[edit]
Simple references[edit]
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:Président/reftest and try it out.
Named references[edit]
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[edit]
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![edit]
Hi there Président! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.
You might want to consider using this tool - 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!) 11:23, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Lorànt Deutsch. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:12, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
The 3%[edit]
Hello,
On 26 September 2008, you quoted Thomazi in Tonkin Affair as writing that, "On the stock exchange on 30 March the 3% fell by three and a half francs; it had only fallen by two and a half francs on the day that war was declared in 1870." Now, I can't quite figure what "the 3%" is. Could you elaborate on that for me, please? Thanks in advance. Best. Président (talk) 04:36, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've been puzzled about that too, and I'm afraid I can't help you very much. I've just checked the relevant paragraph of Thomazi (p. 260), and the French text reads as follows:
- A la Bourse, le 30 mars, le 3 % baisse de 3 fr. 50 ; il n’avait baissé que de 2 fr. 50 le jour de la déclaration de guerre en 1870.
- I'm pretty sure my translation is correct, but what 'the 3%' might be, I have no idea, I'm afraid.
Speedy deletion nomination of Ophélia Kolb[edit]
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Talkback[edit]
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A page you started has been reviewed![edit]
Thanks for creating Scipion Dupleix, Président!
Wikipedia editor Kieranian2001 just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
reviewed as part of page curation, interesting article. Publications given instead of secondary references.
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