User talk:Musant

Advice

Advice of the editors is sought regarding the Jim Kelley Amplifiers article. Has also edited as user 128.200.156.20 and 128.200.156.22.

musant 17:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Musant. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 20:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Musant/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

-- Chzz ► 20:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Re. IRC

Hi there. Thanks for asking for help;as promised, following are the notes I made. Sorry it took a little time - Wikipedia had rather a lot of technical problems, over the past few hours (it even made it on CNN!).

The link you looked at previously was WP:BESTCOI.

Here are my notes;

"between the years of 1978 and 1985" - any reference for that?
"Approximately 600 of these amps were built during that time" - ref?
From "Further innovations" onward, there are no references; can any of this info be sourced?
"a unique post distortion passive LC tone control" - the word 'unique' may be non-neutral, unless referenced
The "Mark Knoffler Wiki Article" shouldn't be an external link; it should either be Wikilinked within the text, or it should be in 'See also'
Too many external links; rule-of-thumb is about 3. Unless they add to the understanding of the subject of the article, they should be removed
Format the external links like this: [http://www.google.com This is Google] So that the link is the wording

. If you can reduce the number of external links, and either add references as described OR remove unreferenced facts, then I can move it to the live area.

For more help, you can either;

Leave a message on my own talk page; OR
Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR
Talk to us live, with this or this.

Best wishes, Chzz ► 20:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to leave a message on someone's talk page

I would like to leave a message on chzz's talk page, but have no idea how to do it. I think I've make the suggested corrections on my article, and would like some feedback. Thanks.

musant 18:33, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Click on user talk:Chzz, then click 'new section', and put a subject. Type in your message, and at the end, 'sign' with ~~~~. Cheers! Chzz ► 18:42, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have new messages

Hello, Musant. You have new messages at [[User talk:Chzz#JK Amps article]|Chzz's talk page]].
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Chzz ► 19:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Jim kelley single channel hardwood combo.jpg

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Re. signature

Note: I did reply to your message on my talk page, but that has now been archived - my page gets rather busy. So, I am copying my reply here. Chzz ► 09:59, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hm - seems to be failing to sign, for some reason; could you click on 'my preferences' (at the top), and scroll down to the 'signature' box, remove anything in that box so that it is empty, and check that the 'sign my name exactly as shown' is not checked. That will, hopefully, fix it. Chzz ► 21:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please feel free to start a fresh section on my talk page for any further questions. Cheers, Chzz ► 09:59, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have new messages

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Chzz ► 20:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Copyright on photo

Hello, Musant. You have new messages at Fastily's talk page.
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-FASTILY_sock^(TALK) 01:52, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing

You can reference any sentence (or even within a sentence) by adding a <ref> and </ref> directly after the fact concerned. You can also use 'named references' so that you can use the same source many times. This is the preferred way of referencing articles. Chzz ► 09:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How references work
Simple references [edit] These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Musant/reftest and try it out. Named references [edit] Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates [edit] You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation \| last = Smith \| first = John \| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century \| publication-date = 2001 \| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] \| page = 125 \| isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Survey

A new user asked for help in getting some Wikipedians to complete this survey] - anonymous, and only for research. If you have a few spare minutes, perhaps you could complete it. Cheers, Chzz ► 06:05, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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