User talk:Ismee

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ismee, 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:

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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! --Geniac (talk) 15:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Newbie[edit]

You said you are "confused about the code for formatting our pages." You may find Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout) (shortcut: WP:LAYOUT) helpful for that. It describes how to structure articles with section headings and includes some example screenshots. Don't worry about bothering me with basic questions; it can be hard sometimes to find the answer to something in all the documentation and help pages available. For example, finding something in the general Manual of Style (WP:MOS); it's huge! --Geniac (talk) 03:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Arab Congress 1913 review request[edit]

Yes, I'll look at your article tomorrow and reply here with some pointers for making it more Wikipedia-style. :) --Geniac (talk) 03:12, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some things I noticed about some of the sections in your article:

Introduction: The section header should be removed so the text in that section merges upwards to immediately follow the first sentence, "The Arab Congress of 1913 met in Paris to discuss reforms to grant Arabs more autonomy under the Ottoman Empire." See WP:LEAD. Wikipedia articles shouldn't have Introduction sections; that's what the lead is for.

Arab nationalism: Who are these scholars that disagree over when exactly Arab nationalism began? Do you have any quotes to cite where one says something but another says something different?

Reform organizations: You'll need to remove the leading spaces on each line to make the asterisks become bullet points.

Attendees: Who are these people and why where they there?

Executions: You mean the Turks considered the attendees to be treasonous and so executed them? That sounds pretty important. Which participants were executed and by whom, exactly?

Your article has well-organized sections, an appropriately formal tone and a good detailed bibliography. Obviously, there are blank sections that you still have to fill with information, but overall, it's looking very good. --Geniac (talk) 04:46, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:AbdalHamidZahrawo.jpeg[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:AbdalHamidZahrawo.jpeg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:28, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you but I filled in the missing information about an hour ago and just emailed the website author to find out the requested information. Please advise. Ismee (talk) 00:51, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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Spellchecking on Elizabeth Gage[edit]

Hello. I reverted your edit to Elizabeth Gage. Whilst spell checking is a great practice and is appreciated, your edits did not actually correct any errors. It only changed the dialect from British English to American English. As per the manual of style, specifically WP:TIES, the article, being a biography of a British person, should remain in British English. You should be able to set your browser's dictionary to British English if you are spell checking articles already written in this dialect in future. Cheers, --§Pumpmeup 05:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling changes[edit]

Hello, I see you have been changing spellings again, even after you were warned by User:Pumpmeup not to do so. There is a Wikipedia policy, WP:ENGVAR, about this: editors must not change an article that is written in British English into American English, or vice versa. Please do not do it again. If you continue making unnecessary spelling changes, an administrator will likely block you from editing per user-blocking policy. 85.94.184.115 (talk) 12:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]