User talk:Wilz
I listed some things that I'm still blur and trying to figure out on my user page. If anyone can help me with those things, I would appreciate a reply/answer here. Thank you in advance!
From Trilobite
[edit]Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions.
You might find these pages useful:
You can always experiment in the sandbox.
One more thing: if you leave a note on any kind of discussion page it's always helpful to sign your post with four tildes (~~~~), which is automatically converted to your username and the date and time. Don't do this in articles themselves though as they are not 'owned' by any particular contributor.
If you have any questions, see help, leave a question at the help desk, or feel free to drop me a line on my talk page.
Thanks again and happy editing!
— Trilobite (Talk) 20:21, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
P.S. I noticed you expressed some concern in the new user log about how difficult it must be to get formatting and the like correct. The best advice I can give you is that it doesn't really matter that much, as anything you contribute can be sorted out by others if there's something wrong with it. If you make a faux-pas (which is highly unlikely) people will probably be very understanding. The manual of style, included in the list above, is helpful, but you don't need to read through the whole thing, just refer to it if you're unsure of something. I'm fairly sure though that you will quickly get used to how things are done here so don't worry about making mistakes.
Copyvio
[edit]You did the right thing on Multimedia University. I am not a sysop and I don't often deal with copyright violations but as I understand it the article will just be deleted after a certain amount of time (the delay allowing its contributor to set the record straight if necessary, such as if they were the author of the page the article appeared to be copied from). Looking at the edit history of the article all the plagiarised text seems to have been added several months ago by someone who made no other contributions. I doubt anyone will be rushing to call for the article's reinstatement. Your link to the other page is sufficient evidence for a sysop to come along and delete the article some time in the next few days. You haven't done anything wrong anyway! Thanks for flagging up the copyvio, most of them are spotted quickly but this one seems to have been there a while. — Trilobite (Talk) 20:46, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Modifying your signature
[edit]In Special:Preferences there is a "your nickname" box. Anything in this box is put between a set of [[ and ]] when you sign a post. If you change it to Wilz]] [[User_talk:Wilz|(Talk) it will retain the normal link to your user page and add one to your talk page. This is entirely optional and most people don't bother (although some people seem to have very elaborate and sometimes even excessive signatures). You can change your signature to just about anything. Hope this helps. — Trilobite (Talk) 21:11, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Your article looks very good and while people will probably come across it and edit it in various ways (like all Wikipedia articles, though some may go for months without an edit) it doesn't need to be listed for cleanup, as that's only for really messed up articles with incoherent sections or duplicated information, etc. People come across articles in various ways: there are lists of new pages and recent changes, but there are many other ways of coming across them, particularly if they are linked from other pages. I'm not sure what you meant by your question about the community portal. What you are referring to is the concept of namespaces, so for example there is the User: namespace for user pages, the Wikipedia: namespace for internal matters, the main namespace where the articles go and the Talk: namespace for discussing them. "Talk:Something" would be the discussion page for the article "Something", and probably wouldn't have much to do with the Community Portal. To try to answer your question though, generally anyone can create any page they like, though if someone creates a page called hf38fdbb90hr3e980hjd4n3y7y8d90ffcgrwesrtys someone else will probably come along and delete it. — Trilobite (Talk) 10:38, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
As there is currently no more than a sentence on each of the possible meanings, they are all fine on one page. This is similar to the first type of disambiguation. If someone wrote enough on any of the topics to merit its own article then the situation would change, but as it stands this page is fine, if a little messy, so I have tried to clean it up a bit. — Trilobite (Talk) 18:18, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Welcome from another Malaysian
[edit]Welcome, from a fellow Klang Valley denizen. We certainly need more Malaysians to edit here. ;-) I see you have concerns with Malaysia#History, perhaps we better discuss that further on its talk page Talk:Malaysia#History. -- sabre23t 05:20, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi there! I was hoping that I could recruit you to the Malay wikipedia. I was trawling through Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Malaysia to find people to reach out and ping. Hope to see you there! If not, another way you could contribute is join the search for wikimalaysians and make a personal invitation such as this one. I have a feeling that sticking a link on the notice board might not be effective enough. -- Kowey 21:22, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC) (also Malaysian... sort of)
Welcome; help pages
[edit]Hi Wilz,
Welcome to Wikipedia!
Thanks for working on the Help pages. What is needed are links from the new help pages on Wikipedia to the existing ones, usually in the Wikipedia namespace. These links can be put in the templates (mostly still empty) linked at the bottom. Also some Wikipedia-specific text itself can go into these templates. Also the existing help pages have to be linked to the corresponding new one on Wikipedia as well as the master page on Meta. The one on Meta can be more recent and is the one to edit, the one on Wikipedia has the Wikipedia-specific content in the templates and may have Wikipedia-specific rendering, e.g. in the case of variables, namespace names, etc. Also adaptations to the master pages are needed to make the copies work properly, e.g. put m: in front of a page name in a link to a page on Meta in another namespace, changing formulations like "here on Meta", etc.
Developer User:Eloquence came with the idea of doing this copying of help pages (may later perhaps be done automatically). Since recently User:AaronPeterson is also active on help pages.--Patrick 22:29, 2004 Sep 20 (UTC)
Hi there. Saw your user page and your note to the new user log. If you want to help out, one thing you can do is watch RecentChanges, and fix vandalism or typos. That's useful to the project, and it's a good way to learn about all the different things going on here. Also, check out the suggestions on Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia.
In answer to your question about casual chat: there isn't a lot of that, since we try to stay mostly on task. There's a Wikipedia IRC channel, but I'm not on it so I don't know how chatty or serious they are. If you want to get to know Wikipedians socially, there are occasional meet-ups in various areas, and you can also find people by Instand Messenger. Isomorphic 20:14, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Multimedia University
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A tag has been placed on Multimedia University requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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