User talk:LEWhitfield

June 2012

Hello, thank you for your assistance. In editing the page File:The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich - Adolf Hitler.jpg I was attempting to remove the material that a student intended to place in a new article, which she inadvertantly placed here on the file page. I created the article page for her, moved her text and citations, and was attempting to clean up the file page. Perhaps you'd like to finish that process since I am not doing so to your satisfaction. Thank you.LEWhitfield (talk) 17:16, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was under the impression you were vandalizing the page, so I reverted your edits. My apologies for the mistake. In the future, I would recommend that you use the edit summary to briefly describe the changes you are making. It helps reduce the chances of a misunderstanding. Feel free to finish whatever you were doing. Dusty777 17:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will do, thank you for the tips. I'm still learning myself, in the process of teaching my class to upload articles. Is this the correct way to converse with other editors, or should I do that on the article or file talk page? I wasn't sure if you would get my message!LEWhitfield (talk) 17:29, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for the late reply... I got kind of busy that past couple days. If you have a question for an editor, the best way to get a reply is to leave the question on that editors talk page. I recommend that you read, Using Talk Pages, and Talk Page Guidlines. They both kind of give the general idea on how to communicate on Wikipedia, and they can also give the certain rules and guidlines that can help you get the most out of communicating with other editors. If you have any other questions on communicating, or any other questions in general, feel free to ask. (I'm more then happy to help.) Dusty777 17:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Alb0329/sandbox

Hiyas there LEWhitfield,

I just noticed that you made this edit and i was wondering - what issue are you running into? Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 19:56, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've got students learning to edit (and I'm still learning myself), and we've had this problem a couple of times. After they create a header, the text below goes into a dotted-line box - but runs off the right side of the page. I don't know what's causing it, but when it happens to them I clear it by replacing the text immediately after the header, without the space betwen. So it seems like there's another bit of code there that I can't see. Any tips?

Also, your message brings up another question: I suggested that they try out their article editing in their sandboxes, where no one else would see them (or so I thought!) - so how did you happen to see this? Thanks! LEWhitfield (talk) 20:07, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, a few questions. Lets start with the original problem first!

The "Dotted box" is caused by having a line in the text that starts with a space. For example, say i wanted to write "I am Excirial", but instead wrote " I am Excirial". The first version would do what you would expect it to do, but the second version would product the dotted box. I'll add an example after the rest of the text - adding it right here would cause the reply to be difficult to read.

As for noticing the edit: Technically speaking any edit one makes can be seen by anyone regardless of the page where it was made. However, if you are busy editing a user page or sandbox this decreases the chance someone notices or cares by an order of magnitude (You won't run into new page patrol for example, and actions such as blanking a page won't immediately be seen as suspicious). In my case i was out patrolling for vandalism using a tool called Huggle, which effectively shows the patrol any edit that was made, in order to check it for vandalism. That was when i noticed the question, and figured you might like a hand.

On a very different subject - i notice you mentioned students? In that case you may or may not be interested in the Wikipedia Education Outreach Program. Shortly put this is a program by the Wikimedia foundation aimed to help professors and teachers who wish to edit wikipedia as a class project - you might find it interesting to have a look at. Besides that it may be handy to know that there is a helpdesk here on Wikipedia which exists to help editors who run into issues while editing. There is also the Teahouse which serves more or less has the same purpose, though it focuses on more on helping newer editors, whereas the helpdesk is visited by editors of virtually any lever of experience (Leading to a very neat mix of complex and simple questions). If you run into an issue such as the "dotted box" again just drop a note there - most times other editors are glad to give a hand when needed. In either case it it a little more foolproof method to find an answer since you aren't likely to run into an editor who happens to be patrolling around at the time.

Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:28, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much - I'm glad you happened on me! I have just recently added this component (uploading short papers on art topics that are currently stubs) to an art history information tech class. We pack a lot of software skills into a semester, and this is only our second semester doing the Wikipedia article, so I haven't yet spent enough time on this part to do it right. I'm learning.. thanks to folks like you. I've gotten more out of direct conversations like this than out of the Wikipedia editing pages; there are so many of them it's a bit overwhelming. I will definitely check out the Ed. Outreach Program. Thanks for your help, and the tips, and your patience. I feel like a noob on Wikipedia - which I don't mind, but I don't want to teach my students poorly.

By the way, should I have also posted this message on your page? So...to do that I would just click on your name, go to your talk page and edit? LEWhitfield (talk) 22:01, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair there is really no set "One must reply like this" method and most people have their own "reply preference", Even so the most convenient default method is leaving a message on the other users talk page since this will cause the orange "You have a new message!" bar to appear for them. Thanks to that bar it is easy to see if someone responded, without having to traverse half the encyclopedia to find people one send a message in the past few months.

As for posting messages there you are entirely right. Clicking a username, navigating to the talk page and then editing it (Or clicking "New Section") is the way to go. Some users signatures (Mine included) may have a direct link to their talk you can use as well. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 17:57, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Example (Just open this section in edit mode to see the difference)

I am Excirial (No space at the start of the line)

I am Excirial (Space at the start of the line).

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