User:CaroleHenson/Community input
   
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I should have started this page awhile ago, but it's good going forward.
A summary of community input:
Copyright notice
[edit]Some of content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from xxx or elsewhere online. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. –CaroleHenson (talk) 14:03, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Articles about living people
[edit]If there is a problem with an article about yourself, a family member, a friend or a colleague, please read Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help and, if necessary, add a discussion to the biographies of living persons noticeboard, or look at the Contact us - Subjects page which has an email address for enquiries.
Writing exercises
[edit]User:Tony1/Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing
Cool piping trick
[edit][[West Hollywood, California|]] makes West Hollywood.
AfDs for venture capital / advertising / media
[edit]No there is no "higher standard." Articles are not presumptively SPAM because of their subject. But they do need to meet GNG and/or one of the related guidelines correlated to WP:N. Sadly, we do get a lot of corporate and self promotional SPAM so some subjects tend to attract closer scrutiny because of this. But as long as the article rings the WP:N bell and doesn't appear to have a lot of WP:UNDUE or WP:PROMO material it should be fine. People doing a lot of articles on corporate and business related subjects should also be aware of WP:COI.
From here.
EW
[edit]Avoid EW, but if needed, WP:ANEW.
Use of talk quote
[edit]Source text:
Bierstadt Lake is surrounded by a thick pine forest, and is ringed by sedges that give it a very serene appearance.
Wikipedia prose:
A dense pine forest encircles Bierstadt Lake, and the lake "is ringed by sedges that give it a very serene appearance."
―Mandruss ☎ 19:40, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Assessing article quality
[edit]From Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Assessment_of_article_quality
- ...There is no policy or guideline that limits the contributor from rating the article, however, as you go past C class it might be more reliable to ask others opinion. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment states this:"Generally an active project will develop a consensus, though be aware that different projects may use their own variation of the criteria more tuned for the subject area, such as this. Many projects have an assessment team. If you contribute a lot of content to an article you may request an independent assessment." Anything up to a C class is a matter of size so it in uncontroversial. B class or higher may request an independent assessment. GA and FA are always from an independent assessment.--Mark Miller (talk) 22:08, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Encyclopedia Britannica
[edit]as a reliable source. The summary of the issue from RSN Archive 115 - Is Encyclopedia a reliable source?:
- I believe noone will object if I summarise the dispute as follows: whereas the EB articles authored by reputable scientists or scholars can be used as a source for Wikipedia in the absence of better sources, it would be desirable to replace them with references to reliable secondary sources when such possibility exists.---Paul Siebert (talk) 00:59, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Format for date ranges within citation templates
[edit]- Year - –
- Seasons - example: Autumn 1981 – Winter 1982
Requests for images
[edit]Based upon input from User:Anna Frodesiak - plus at the end of the email, give the full url to my user page.
One image
[edit]Dear ,
Hello. I am a Wikipedian. I created the following article, and wish to add an image to it:
Hello. I am a Wikipedian. I recently encountered the following article, and wish to add an image to it:
Hello. I am a Wikipedian. I recently encountered the following article, and wish to add more images to it:
If you have an image that you own, and would like to add it to the article, I can do it for you, or you can do it yourself.
If you would like me to upload the image for you, please email it to me. After I upload it, I will email you back the release form (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates), filled out properly, for you to send to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org
To upload the image yourself, you will need to register at Wikicommons, the image storehouse for Wikipedia. It takes about 20 seconds: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Commons%3AWelcome&type=signup
Here is the link to upload the image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
If the image appears elsewhere in the media, then after uploading, the release form provided below needs to be sent in. If you own the image, and upload the image yourself, and it appears nowhere else in the media, then no permission form is needed.
If you have any questions, please ask. Many thanks.
Multiples
[edit]Dear ,
Hello. I am a Wikipedian. I recently created the following article, and wish to add images to it:
If you have images that you own, and would like to add them to the article, I can do it for you, or you can do it yourself.
If you would like me to upload the images for you, please email them to me. After I upload them, I will email you back the release form (shown below), filled out properly, for you to send to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org
To upload images yourself, you will need to register at Wikicommons, the image storehouse for Wikipedia. It takes about 20 seconds: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Commons%3AWelcome&type=signup
Here is the link to upload images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
If the images appear elsewhere in the media, then after uploading, the release form provided below needs to be sent in. If you upload the images yourself, and it appears nowhere else in the media, then no permission form is needed.
If you have any questions, please ask. Many thanks.