User talk:Calnut

Welcome!

Hello, Calnut, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Pedro : Chat 14:15, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} Pedro - I'm new at this and have been floundering. I see so many things I want to contribute to, but have to get over that initial "I have no idea how to do"... I looked at your talk page, not sure what to do there.

I have a basic article started. Wanting to know if there is somewhere to ask for help to edit before putting it on Wikipedia. Can you make suggestions? or suggest how to do?

Thanks so much!

{{helpme}} Pedro - thought I would get involved with the Wiki Ohio group, but couldn't figure out how to even put my name on the list of participants much less ask a question. How to do? Thanks in advance.

{{helpme}}Help! I just lost most of the article I was working on...any way of getting it back?

Well, maybe I just start with real short now, and then slowly build it back up....

Help

Hi Calnut - apologies - I'll be away from my PC for a couple of hours but will reply asap. Pedro : Chat 17:31, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Calnut. Some help! Firstly you're putting the "help me" template inside "nowiki" tags - e.g. <nowiki></nowiki> - that's because they're in the message I left, but if you use "nowiki" then it does what it says - no wikipedia markup - so it won't signify you need help and thus appear on the right pages! Not your fault - it's to make sure that a welcome message doesn't automaticaaly put you on the "needing help" page!

To enter a "help me" template just literally paste this only: {{helpme}} ie the two curly brackets and the words with a description of what you need and someone will come running - just don't add the "nowiki" bit!

~~To join the Ohio Wikiproject go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Participants and click "edit this page" at the top. Add your username alphabetically to the list.~~ Oops - you did that okay! [1]

Is your missing article at User:Calnut/sandboxDr.T ? I can't see any edits you have made that have been deleted. Remember that untill you hit "save page" in the edit box then you won't have saved the text. If you exit from Wikipedia, or indeed just go to another page then anything will be lost until you save it.

Hope that helps a bit - feel free to ask about the next steps!! Pedro : Chat 19:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}}Thanks Pedro...Did I do the helpme correctly? The missing article...on the user page is only shows 3 paragraphs. When I go to edit, it looks like it is all there. However, when I click show preview, it goes back to the 3 paragraphs...? How do I get the entire article to show up all of the time?

Is there a way to ask someone to make suggestions to improve the article before it is published?

Thanks so much!

Hiya! I've fixed it for you.
When adding a reference, do this:
<ref>Reference here</ref>.
What you had was this:<ref>Reference here/ref> — in other words, missing a <.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 20:53, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}}Thanks so much for your help Pedro and S Marshall. I am just getting back to work on the article again. I feel very rusty. But I did move it, so I hope it is now live, though I can't seem to search for it. I am assuming it takes a while to get into the system? Thanks again for all of your help!