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Question from Chris3570 (17:28, 22 January 2024)

Hello! I've written an article, published to draft (not yet for review). In my last edit I added an infobox with photo but not sure how to preview the page to make sure I've done it correctly! Can you advise how I can confirm this will display correctly? The article is Draft:Liz Fenwick Thank you! --Chris3570 (talk) 17:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

All sorted now thx Chris3570 (talk) 10:41, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lauren nevatil on Poison control center (05:12, 23 January 2024)

Hello, I am very worried after my son‘s bath whom is two years old I drain his nose with a sucker and putting boogie drops in before I get all of his boogers out because he gets very congested. I accidentally used the swimmer ear that he needs during the summer the bottles look a lot of lake and he was very upset and crying cause it hurt him but got over it real quick, but is it something that I need to be extremely concerned ? --Lauren nevatil (talk) 05:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Question from John Bois (05:59, 28 January 2024)

Hey! I have free time now and getting back into Wikipedia editing so I do know what I am doing mostly! I mostly edit American sports articles (football, soccer hockey, basketball, and baseball) I do have one question though if you go on a Wikipedia page like "76ers" they have colored boxes do you know how to do that? --John Bois (talk) 05:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, @John Bois! Sorry for the really late reply. The color for basketball club infoboxes are controlled in two ways: either by setting |color1= (text color), |color2= (background color), and |color3= (border color) in the infobox, or by adding the team to the centralized Module:Sports color/basketball module. Note that module editing may be a difficult when you're only starting out — I suggest making edit requests at the module's talk page instead, so that a competent editor can make the change for you. Chlod (top • contribs) 11:00, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	This award is given in recognition to Chlod for collecting at least 10 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Tangerineskies (22:03, 20 February 2024)

Hello! It's great to have an experienced mentor. Thanks for being willing to help me out!

I am an English major in my university (undergraduate), and I was wanting to create a new article on my topic. For more background, the project is supposed to be an article that "looks" like a Wikipedia article, but is completed on Canva. I wanted to actually contribute to Wikipedia and start my writing adventure here with this first assignment!

All that to say that this will be the first Wikipedia article I've ever written, and I'm super excited about it, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. I plan on checking out the "how to create a new article" page, but I'm wondering if there's any tips you might be able to give me?

Thank you!

Tangerine --Tangerineskies (talk) 22:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, @Tangerineskies! First off, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your interest in contributing! My go-to page for finding out how to write articles is Help:Your first article, which covers the basics of what to check for before you write article, and what to do while you write your article. All articles from newcomers start off as drafts, where they'll eventually be reviewed prior to publishing.

There's a lot of tips I can give, but perhaps the most useful one I can give is to ensure that you're using good, reliable sources. Sources are the foundation of an article; it could make or break whether or not a draft gets accepted. Help:Referencing for beginners has a simple guide to sourcing, but if you're more into specifics and details, you can check out Wikipedia:Reliable sources — the holy grail for what is and what isn't allowed as a source on Wikipedia.

If you're ever confused, you've got more questions, or you need help, feel free to reach out! There's a "reply" button after each message on this talk page, which you can use instead of drafting new questions from your homepage. I'll be sure to reply as soon as I can. Again, welcome to Wikipedia and I hope you stick around! Chlod (top • contribs) 11:52, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello again @Chlod. Thank you so much for your quick reply! I appreciate the resources and have been checking out a bunch of these websites since yesterday afternoon. I am not the best at "coding" (I know Wikipedia uses its own basic system using brackets, and accepts HTML-5, which I don't really know anything about either). Because of this, I was wondering how much I will need to know to write articles? In the sandbox, I tried to use a few of these keys out, but it said I was in the WYSIWYG viewing page and not the coding page. Would you be able to tell me how to switch back and forth between the "coding" page and the default sandbox page, please?

Thanks for your help!

Tangerineskies (talk) 16:52, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tangerineskies: If you're getting a WYSIWYG editor, then you're probably using VisualEditor. This is usually enough for most article writing (and it's what I use when writing most of my articles). If you'd like to switch to the "source editor" (or "wikitext editor", same thing), click on the dropdown at the top-right of the page, and select "source editor". The page should reload and open up the source editor. From here, you can use wikitext to write your article/draft. To switch back, just click on the same dropdown and select "Visual editing".

When editing in the source editor, I suggest enabling syntax highlighting using the icon (may be hidden behind the "Page options" menu). It'll highlight parts of the text and help you differentiate between links, references, templates, and text. Hope this helps! Chlod (top • contribs) 17:07, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Chlod! If it's entirely possible to write articles on the VisualEditor formatting, then I think I'll stick with that for now. Thank you for all your help! Tangerineskies (talk) 17:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC)