User talk:Julianyc

Dick Ebersol

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. The two important things to bear in mind if you want to edit the Dick Ebersol article are that it must be written neutrally and that all content in it must be verifiable. The latter objective can be achieved by citing information you add, which means putting the source of the information in between <ref></ref> tags when you add it. For example "The sky is blue.<ref>"What Colour is the Sky?", Wall Street Journal, February 15, 1967, p.2</ref>" or "Adolf Hitler is generally considered to have been a bad man.<ref>http://washitlerbad.com</ref>". Don't worry too much about specific reference formats, as long as you include enough information for others to check the truth of your statements. Since you work for NBC sports, you should also read our conflict-of-interest guidelines; they don't prohibit you from editing the article, but they do suggest that you take special care when doing so. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Steve Smith (talk) 18:17, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I just noticed that you probably can't edit the page because of its protection settings; I'll lift those for now, pending the resumption of any problems. Steve Smith (talk) 18:18, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Julia - it's actually not required that sources be available online. All else being equal, it's probably best that they are, but in the situation you're describing it sounds like the articles are under copyright and that you don't have the copyright holder's permission to post them, so putting them online wouldn't work. For those that are online but require payment, you can include a link to the article so that anybody who does want to pay to see it can easily do so. For those that aren't online at all, just include enough information about when it did appear so that somebody who felt like going to a well-stocked library and digging the reference up could do so, as in my Wall Street Journal example above (I'm assuming that these articles were published offline). Please let me know if you have any questions. Steve Smith (talk) 23:06, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NBC Sports

Julia, I think the NBC Sports page could use an expansion of its history section, with particular reference to the people who have worked for and run NBC Sports. Also, I'm sure that there are missing programs. Khan_singh (talk) 04:10, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds great. I'd be glad to format whatever you have for addition to the article. Thanks. Khan_singh (talk) 04:12, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, great stuff. I'll work that into article. Just one thing, no one around here seems to know exactly when NBC started televising the PGA Tour. Do you have that info handy? Thanks again. Khan_singh (talk) 21:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was in the act of adding you information to the article when my browser crashed. I promise to get that in there directly. Thanks again for all of the information. Khan_singh (talk) 03:10, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I added the information you gave me, as well as some I found. Let me know what you think. Thanks. Khan_singh (talk) 00:23, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure exactly, let me ask around. I'll let you know as soon as possible. How is all of th other info working out that I gave you? Let me know if I can answer any other questions for you. Thanks.

Creating new pages

Hi Julia - I'm not sure what you mean by "there would be no site editor assigned yet"; Wikipedia articles aren't assigned to any one editor, but are considered to be available for anybody to edit. I sometimes think it would be nice if articles were so-assigned, since it would create some measure of accountability over article content, but that's not currently the case. As for starting new articles, the simplest way is to just type the name of the article (make sure that you use the same capitalization as the article should have) into the "Search" field. At the top of your search results, you should see something like "You may create the page "XXXX", but consider checking..." where "XXXX" is the name of the article, in red text. Click on this red text, and you will arrive at a blank edit window where you can start writing the article. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Steve Smith (talk) 18:55, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steve- I was under the impression that most wiki pages has a more frequent editor who monitors what is up on the page and what gets put up, etc. etc. So, that's why I was under the impression that I might need to know certain guidelines if I ever wanted to create a new page from scratch. Hope that makes sense? Just trying to learn the process on how these wikipedia pages originate. Julianyc (talk) 17:08, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]