User talk:CableHut

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Now you know how to add pictures to wikipedia articles, why not add your own? This shows you articles that are near you. Is there one without a picture or where you could take a much better picture? In many countries modern buildings are still protected by copyright, but not in the UK and some other places. This is the upload page on Wikimedia Commons.
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When you add information to Wikipedia please summarize things in your own words, and tell us where you got the information from in the following format <ref>[The webpage, book or magazine you are citing, a description, the word "retrieved" and today's date]</ref>
If you find unreferenced information on Wikipedia that you consider dubious or unlikely, first try to reference it with a search on the internet. If you know it is wrong, correct it, if you can't find a source then {{fact}} adds the famous [citation needed]. If, after a week no-one has referenced the information, feel free to remove it.
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Many Wikipedians organise themselves by subject area, we have hundreds of WikiProjects ranging from Arts to Zoology, and I'm sure there will be ones that fit your interests. A good place to look for them is Category:WikiProjects by area, alternatively look at the talkpages of articles you are interested in and see which Wikiprojects have placed templates there.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, visit The Teahouse, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ϣere SpielChequers 11:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Try to remember to login when editing

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Wikipedia:Teahouse while logged out. Making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting. Note that the abusive use of multiple accounts or evasion of a blockage may result to you to have been blocked from editing Wikipedia. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:08, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Jean Jepson: Dancer; Choreographer; Teacher.

Hi CableHut. I think it would be a good idea for you to take a look at Help:Referencing for beginners, Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:Notability (people) for reference. Maybe you should even consider taking the Wikipedia:Adventure. I don't mean to sound negative, but the draft your working on about Jepson is almost certain to be rejected by Wikipedia:Articles for creation for a variety of reasons if submitted in its current form. Writing an article in accordance with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines is a pretty hard thing to do, especially for new editors who only seem to be focusing on only that one particular thing. I think you'd do yourself some good, if you tried editing other articles to better familiarize yourself with how Wikipedia editing works and how articles are typically formatted/written. You can also request assisatnce at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography or maybe even at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:20, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing

Hi CableHut. After seeing your latest post on Cullen328's user talk page I am wondering if you have (or had) had some kind of personal or professional connection to Jepson or her family. The way you refer to her in such a familiar tone in your talk page posts and throughout the draft you are writing gives me the impression that you were one of her friends or associates. If that's the case then I think it might be a really good idea for you to take a look at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide for reference.

One of the five pillars of Wikipedia is Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, which requires us as editors to write about a subject in a neutral encyclopedic tone. This can sometimes be really hard for editors with a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest to do because their personal recollections or experiences tend to creep into their writing (even when they are really trying hard to be neutral). Wikipedia does not explicitly prohibit editors from creating or editing articles about subjects they may be connected to, but it is something that it does highly discourage because it can easily lead to more serious issues. A COI editor may (once again unintentionally perhaps) be trying to portray the subject in a particular way which may not be considered appropriate by other editors. Editors do not have any ownership rights over articles they create or edit, and any disagreements over article content are expected to be resolved through discussion and consensus building on the article's talk page based upon relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. COI editors sometimes have problems with this type of thing because they are sometimes editing for their own personal reasons and not editing on behalf of Wikipedia as a whole.

Anyway, the links I have provided above are for your reference only. If you do have what Wikipedia considers to be a COI, then that doesn't mean you need to stop working on the draft. You should just make yourself aware of the kinds of things Wikipedia expects from COI editors in order to avoid any possible problems with other editors. I also strongly suggest that you submit the draft for review via Wikipedia:Articles for creation (AfC), so that AfC reviewers can assess it and point out any problems they might find. AfC is only optional, but drafts approved by AfC reviewers do typically seem to have a better chance surviving in the article namespace than those directly added by their creators, especially for first time attempts at writing articles. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:13, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]