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Welcome

Hello Keith Ellis and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Keith Ellis. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback.
Message added 21:53, 25 March 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

ukexpat (talk) 21:53, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. As you seem to be interested in basketball, you should consider participating in the Basketball Wikiproject. – ukexpat (talk) 16:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Images are one of the trickiest aspects of Wikikpedia (I have been around here for nearly 5 years and I haven't got the hang of all the ins and outs yet!). It all depends on the copyright status of the image. Do you know who owns it? When and where it was published?

The following is a template generated message about images to give you some background:

If you want to add an existing image to an article, add [[Image:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text.]] to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information.
If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article, you must find out what the proper license of the image is. If you know the image is licensed under a free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (sign up). If you are unsure what license the image takes, see the file upload wizard for more information. Please also read Wikipedia's image use policy. I hope this helps.Template:Z40--ukexpat (talk) 17:24, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid that copyrights are not quite a simple as that. Does the year book contain a copyright notice? I will ask for help on this at Media copyright questions - the folks who hang out there are very good at answering such questions. – ukexpat (talk) 18:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just checked your contributions here and at Commons and I don't see the file that you uploaded. What was the filename? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 00:28, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, it wasn't uploaded. It has to have an acceptable media file extension, such as png, gif, jpg, jpeg, etc. Contact me via Wikipedia e-mail Special:EmailUser/Ukexpat, I will reply and you can e-mail the file to me. – ukexpat (talk) 00:47, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DeJernett Image

Done - whadya think? – ukexpat (talk) 14:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Piping" links

I fixed the problem you mentioned. Briefly, if you want a link to a Wikipedia article to display as something other than the linked article's title, you use a "pipe", so for example:

[[John Wayne|The Duke]], displays as The Duke. See WP:PIPE. – ukexpat (talk) 16:45, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Creating articles

Yes, I would strongly advise, although it is not a requirement, that you create a new article in user subpage first, at least until you get the hang of it. It is pretty demoralising to have one's new articles speedily deleted from the mainspace, so putting some thought and effort into them in userspace first gives them a much better chance at survival, though not a guarantee if they don't comply with policy and guidelines. As for references, after images they are the probably the second most tricky part of Wikipedia to get to grips with. There are several pages that can help: WP:CITE, WP:FOOTNOTE, WP:NAMEDREFS and WP:RS are probably the places to start. I will keep an eye on the article and help out if I see problems. – ukexpat (talk) 17:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References error: that was an easy one to fix. You need to add {{Reflist}} at the end of the article - I added it. That template pulls together all the cited references in a nicely numbered list. – ukexpat (talk) 01:04, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To cite a newspaper article, it's best to use the {{cite news}} template. – ukexpat (talk) 13:39, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Big Dave

Please don't forget those edit summaries. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 19:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the tags - nice work on the references! I'll take a look at your other draft and move it or comment as appropriate. – ukexpat (talk) 19:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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	Please don't forget those [[WP:ES\|edit summaries]]. Thanks. – [[User:Ukexpat\|ukexpat]] ([[User talk:Ukexpat\|talk]]) 19:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)		Please don't forget those [[WP:ES\|edit summaries]]. Thanks. – [[User:Ukexpat\|ukexpat]] ([[User talk:Ukexpat\|talk]]) 19:52, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

			:I have removed the tags - nice work on the references! I'll take a look at your other draft and move it or comment as appropriate. – [[User:Ukexpat\|ukexpat]] ([[User talk:Ukexpat\|talk]]) 19:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)