User talk:Dstokols

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Daniel Stokols

Your article Daniel Stokols has appeared in the Dead End Pages list because it is not wikified. Please consult the Wikipedia Guide to Layout for more information on how to write a good, wikified article. I would encourage you to revisit your submissions and {{wikify}} them. Thanks and happy editing! James084 03:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Response from James084

I received your message on my talk page. Sorry I did not get back to you sooner; however, my real life is interfering with my Wiki editing. :) It looks like the NPOV template has been removed and I see that there is some discussion going on on the article's talk page. As this topic is outside of my normal editing I am going to remove myself from the discussion and the article. Thanks for your work in cleaning up the article! James084 01:10, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 06:54, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Internal links

Hi,

When you attempt to link to a wikipedia page, you are using what we would call "external links" - that is, you are pasting in the contents of the url or address bar into the page directly. Those links look like this in your edit window:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_psychology]

and like this on the main page:

[1].

What you should be using is internal links, using double square brackets. Like this:

[[Community psychology]]

which renders like this:

Community psychology.

See Help:Link for more information. Also, note that you shouldn't be adding wikipedia (internal) links to the external links section. They go in the see also section, or ideally are embedded directly in the text. Finally, the references section is for references used in the text. In this edit you added a research article as a reference, but made no adjustments to the text itself. This isn't, therefore, a reference. It could be placed in "Further reading" if the section exists, but it's best used as an inline citation since it is an article, and not something extremely lengthy like a book. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 01:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]