User talk:Newkai/Archive 1

Note: I've moved Kai Brinker to User:Newkai (I deleted the empty page that was there before) since it is clear that there was a simple misunderstanding about how Wikipedia works. Kai, welcome to Wikipedia and I look forward to many contributions from you. Regards & happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 13:46, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey Welcome to Wikipedia,

You seem to have a good idea about what to do, but if you need to play, try the sandbox. Good work on Syracuse Hancock International Airport. For images, please read the image policy, as you can only link to images that are uploaded onto Wikipedia's servers. I noticed you made Kai Brinker. Is this about yourself? In general, Wikipedia strongly discourages autobiographies in the main encyclopedia (see Wikipedia:Auto-biography). It's quite okay, however, to have this kind of information on your user page. Could I ask you to leave a message for me on my talk page to clarify things? Thanks! -- Burgundavia 12:34, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

More Welcome Notes[edit]

Just a couple of notes to make life smoother.

When creating an article, it is common to place the title within the first sentence. Thus, as I have added to Clarence E. Hancock and to add bold to that title by adding ''' (3 single quotes) around the name. Adding 2 single quotes adds italics and 4 adds both bold and italics. Double quotes are nothing special to the wiki.
For the adding interwiki links, it is common practice to only wikify the first instance of one particular thing, be it a date or something else.
Make certain that the first sentence gives a good general overview of the person, as you probably should assume that not many people know about this person
For signing your comments on talk pages, use ~~~ for your username and ~~~~ for your username with a date stamp
For very short aritcles, called stubs, add {{stub}} to the bottom of them, thus they will be tagged with an automatic message.
I am going to list Kai Brinker on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. VfD, as it is known in Wikispeak, is quite a scary place for newcomers. Expect your page to be attacked at vanity. Simply add a note saying you made a minor mistake and they will treat you better.

Above all, cheers, and welcome to Wikipedia. All the above stuff you would learn but it easier to simply tell, rather than stumble around for a while. Burgundavia 13:01, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

Greater Binghamton Airport[edit]

Hey Newkai, on category pages, they get automatically updated. The act of simply placing the tag adds the article to the category. On a related note, if you want to provide a link a category or an image, but don't want to add that page to the category or show the image, as you did with my talk page, place a colon before the category, like this [[:Category. Burgundavia 00:35, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Category wierdness[edit]

Categories are very new, less than a month old, so many categories are still in flux. In addition, there is a known display bug that sometimes shows up, regarding the sorting of articles into categories. As an aside note, you may notice categories with other category links in them written like this: [[Category:blah|blah]] After the pipe is the sort key, as otherwise all the subcategories get sorted in their parent category under C. Burgundavia 00:47, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Magna Graecia[edit]

Thank you for fixing the Syracuse link on this page. Etz Haim 04:11, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Elymian language at the Sicels entry[edit]

"the Elymian language, which some would consider related to Ligurian or to Anatolian." Would you be a little more specific here please. Even identify "Some" perhaps. "How" would help. Perhaps you'd best begin the Elymian entry. And please add an External Link to help us out. Thank you. Wetman 06:13, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I see now! not you, User:Pasquale! My blunder. Wetman 06:22, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No, Wetman, that was indeed me. I believe I was the one that added that particular language and I will try to clarify it. Pasquale 16:54, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

All right, now I'm confused. to clarify, I, newkai, did not change any content on that page. newkai 19:15, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Images[edit]

There are a handful of images you have uploaded that are missing copyright tags. If you have a couple of minutes could you mark what license they are released under? The images in question are listed below. - SimonP 17:59, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

The basic license is the GFDL. To release a photo under this license simply add {{GFDL}} to the page for each image. A full list of other valid images and tags is available at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. - SimonP 00:00, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)