User talk:Z.kelley
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Hello, Z.kelley, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
October 2017[edit]
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Cadra calidella. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:
|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]
Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:
|image=SomeImage.jpg.
There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know! Have you changed it or should I go ahead and change it?
Speedy deletion nomination of Niphanda fusca[edit]
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that Niphanda fusca, a page that you created, has been tagged for deletion. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
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- It is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. (See section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Wikipedia has standards for the minimum necessary information to be included in short articles; you can see these at Wikipedia:Stub. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Booyahhayoob (talk) 21:03, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
N. fusca[edit]
I think there's enough content on the page now to avoid speedy deletion. You should feel comfortable continuing to expand the page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:19, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Ways to improve Niphanda fusca[edit]
Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. Z.kelley, thanks for creating Niphanda fusca!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This is not a good article! Having seen your user page, I'd expect far better from a biologist with aspirations in journalism. We need information on distribution and habitat. We need an author name in the infobox. We need a reference to Bremer and Grey that you say describes this taxon well. We need some content! Please Google the species name to find some worthwhile sources and information.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions or need help with making your first article on a previously undescribed taxon into something worthwhile, do feel free to leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more general editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.
Nick Moyes (talk) 01:11, 14 October 2017 (UTC)