User talk:Block1945

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Daniel Block. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article and resubmit when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. fetchcomms☛ 22:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Block1945! I am Fetchcomms and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time. I just wanted to say "Hi!" and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some important pages that you might find helpful:

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Citing

For your article, you cited it fine, but you need to use inline citations (see WP:CITE). To do so, put: <ref>Citation info stuff here</ref> after each sentence you are citing for. Then at the bottom, delete the list you have made and add <references />. This should make the citations you had after each sentence appear automatically.

An example of the census would be:

U.S. Census Bureau. (2007, January 12). State & county Quickfacts: Allegany County, N.Y. Retrieved January 25, 2007, from http://quickfacts.census.gov.

If it is on a webpage, then add that as above, otherwise just leave it out. There isn't any "set" method for citing (some like MLA, Chicago, etc.). For making a section,

==Section name here==

Use two equals signs, name, and two more. For subsections, use three equals signs on each side, use four for sub-sub-sections, etc. fetchcomms☛ 20:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Start your time at Wikipedia!

Hey, Micro 101 here, if you want to start contributing to Wikipedia, start by making your User Page. Making and managing your user page will give you a feel for editing and making new articles. So, don't jump in right away. Talk to User: Fetchcomms for advice for your user page. Have a good time here on Wikipedia! Micro 101 (talk) 18:52, 19 December 2009 (UTC)Micro 101[reply]

Er, don't worry about this message... actual editing is more important than your userpage. fetchcomms☛ 23:25, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Block

I have cleaned it up some, but if you could find some more sources so as to establish his notability, per WP:N, that would be excellent. fetchcomms☛ 23:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure where the photos are... but if you could just do the same inline citing as before, that would be all. Thanks! fetchcomms☛ 22:21, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your nomination at Articles for Creation was a success, and Daniel Block was created.

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Thank you for helping Wikipedia! fetchcomms☛ 20:28, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Pair_of_Sauceboats,_ca._1765.jpg)

Thanks for uploading File:Pair_of_Sauceboats,_ca._1765.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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I have now got my new article up for approval. It's Mungo Mackay. And the jpeg of the Sauce Boats is now part of the article. So it's no longer an orphan. Remove your deletion warning please. Thanks for the reminder. Block1945 (talk) 18:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mungo Mackey

Hello. I just stopped by to congratulate you on the very nice article you've written about Mungo Mackay. Of course there's always something a reviewer can find to complain about. So I have a couple of minor things I noticed: first one is that when citing a book it's best to put in page numbers that you're referring to (or even a chapter if that's easier) to help anyone looking for the material and background; the second one is that Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia, aims for, let's be honest, a rather dull style. It's generally thought best to avoid "we" and "us" and even "one". You'll have noticed that the sauce boat picture was deleted. When it comes to pictures, things tend to be very automated and ruthless. And we tend to be really quite restrictive about what kind of copyrighted pictures can be used. Basically, if you could go somewhere and take a picture yourself (or ask someone to do it for you), then we say that that is what we should do and that a copyrighted picture isn't really acceptable in that case. So, no more sauceboats I'm afraid. If you know where the originals are, it could be that we can find a brave volunteer to go and photograph them. Let me know if you do. And if you have any questions about images, you can either try Wikipedia:Media copyright questions or you can ask me if you like (but I'm more likely to be wrong). Again, thanks for contributing this fine article. Very best regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:56, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Txcrossbow (talk) 04:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lake Barrington Shores, Illinois concern

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Your article submission Lake Barrington Shores, Illinois

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 11:46, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]