User talk:Thinneck

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Thinneck, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 21:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Morag (TV series) edits

I see that you're editing the article at the same time I am. I'll hold off on any further edits for the time being so that we don't bump into each other. I will point however that the odd boxes that you see around some of the text that you were working on is caused by putting a space at the beginning of the line.

Like this.

If you edit this section, you'll see that there is a space before the work "Like".

If you need any more help with the article, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Dismas|^(talk) 08:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dismas,

I'm a complete newbie on wikipedia so any help you can give me on creating/editing the article is much appreciated. I'm all done for now so please feel free to adjust/format in ways that make the article more in line with Wikipedia formatting.

If I search for the article at the moment in google for example, it doesn't come up. Is that because it's going through a vetting process and will go Live when that is complete?

Is simply continuing to edit and save okay or do we need to move the article somewhere else after each new edit?

many thanks for your help. Thinneck (talk) 10:18, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thinneck (talk) 08:33, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved your comments here so that we can keep the conversation in one place. I've put your talk page on my watch list, so I'll see if you reply here. I've also indented your reply, and my reply using colons. This is the usual way that we keep track of who is replying to whom here on Wikipedia.

I realize you're new. And it shows in that you are still using the word "create". The article is already created and has been live for a couple days now. Ever since you asked on the Help Desk to have it moved to the main space and someone else did it for you. They did it a bit prematurely, in my opinion. As you can see from the work we've been putting into it, there was quite a bit to still be done. Don't be worried though. You've done an excellent job. The writing was basically done, it just needed formatting and references worked out.

What Google does is up to Google. In my searches to improve your references (more on that in a moment), the article kept coming up as the first or second result. And to repeat, the article is live. It sort of jumped past any vetting process when the other user moved the article out of draft space.

The article does not need to be moved anywhere else. It is where it will be until the end of Wikipedia. :) And yes, you can continue to edit it for as long and as many times as you wish.

As for the references, take note of how I've put the references in. It's fine to put just the name of the publication, title, author, and date as you done but this is the Internet. So providing a link to an online version of the article is preferred. And you can use the {{cite web}} template as I've done.

Any other questions about this, just reply back here or if it's about a new subject, feel free to post that question on my talk page. Dismas|^(talk) 09:45, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for all of that! Very helpful to get your advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thinneck (talk • contribs)

You're welcome. Dismas|^(talk) 10:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 08:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]