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Help Project newsletter : Issue 6

The Help Project Newsletter	Issue VI - April 2013
Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on.	Other news The Article Feedback Tool (v5) has now been changed to be opt-in for all pages. It can be enabled for specific pages by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 to them. There are also a number of new features. It has been proposed to merge the questions forum of the New contributors' help page into the Teahouse. Discussion is taking place here. The help menu at Help:Contents/Browse and its subpages have been largely cleaned up. User:Moxy has created a descriptive help directory. A project on Video and Interactive Tutorials has begun, supported by a Wikimedia Foundation grant. Suggestions for subjects are invited on the talk page.
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Welcome thanks

hey, thanks :)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Highspiritswow (talk • contribs)

Greetings!

Hi, I would like to inform you that I would like to use your quick templates ({{User:Ukexpat/QT}}) on my page for additional help for me in the future. I hope you dont mind. Thanks a alot! SefBau :  msg  13:01, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

By all means, glad that you think it will be useful.--ukexpat (talk) 20:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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knightmare on wall street (deletion)

Hi, I'm improving this article. What do I need to do to help it from deletion? Thanks Martin Campos Martin raul campos (talk) 20:23, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Find some sources that demonstrate that the book meets the guidelines at WP:NBOOK.--ukexpat (talk) 02:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'm trying to improve this article and save it from deletion. What do I need to do? I think I already fix the problems that you mentioned. Thanks in advance. Martin Campos Martin raul campos (talk) 17:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

No you haven't - please read WP:NBOOK again.--ukexpat (talk) 02:51, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Carrière des Nerviens Regional Nature Reserve

Hello Ukexpat, Thank you for your review. I finished the entry of references. I did my best to translate the french article but I write english like a spanish cow. Could you please correct the article. Thank you in advance. Cordially. Christian COGNEAUX (talk) 16:50, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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Video template

Hello, you seem active on the Help:Templates noticeboard. You and other qualified individuals might have missed my message that is getting lost with all the activity below it Wikipedia:Help desk#Video template. Nobody has assisted. If you don't know how to help fix this, could you refer me to someone who can? Trackinfo (talk) 20:17, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Technical questions are best dealt with at WP:VPT where the techie folks hang out.--ukexpat (talk) 20:19, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

External links

Hi Ukexpat,

I'm sorry I have offended you by linking wikipedia articles to archival collections on the same subjects, or to archival collections that may help a researcher looking for more information on that subject. The external links policy directly states: "acceptable links include those that contain further research that is accurate and on-topic..." The archival collections to which I have been linking these pages would be beneficial to people coming to these wikipedia articles looking for additional research material. There are already other external links to other archival collections (at other institutions, and not posted by me) on several of the pages I've seen pertaining to the same subjects, so why is it that just the archival collections I have been linking to (on the same subject) are not acceptable? Why haven't the other archival collections' external links been deemed unacceptable as well?

Sarliza — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarliza (talk • contribs) 20:21, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You haven't offended me, I just don't think these links comply with policy. Please discuss in the thread at WP:ELN.--ukexpat (talk) 20:25, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Removing notability and unreferenced tags from Facets Multi-Media

Hello. I'm a newbie here. I posed this question on the talk page of Facets Multi-Media, but I'm not sure if it's something you'd readily see. The question is, with the secondary sources and citations I've been adding to make the article more reliable, do you think there are enough references to justify removing the notability and unreferenced tags? Thanks. Total druid (talk) 21:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

About your answer on the help desk related to the subtitle/taxon creation

Hi Ukexpat, thanks for your comment on the helpdesk about the subtitle/taxon creation, but the original french version of this template is fr:Modèle:Sous-titre/Taxon, if that could contribute to help me. Bastaco (talk) 08:34, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Help needed

Following your edits, I think I need some help inserting cites to the article. Thanks! --Michael Haephrati (talk) 16:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Please take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners. Rather than referring to the scans you should use the appropriate citation template ({{Cite web}}, {{Cite news}} or {{Cite journal}} for example) referring to the original printed articles etc.--ukexpat (talk) 16:14, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Michael Haephrati (talk) 16:15, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

I am happy to say I now know how to use the Cite templates. I have worked on the version before your change and at the same time on the current version, going over the articles and sources listed in the old version and adding cites to them inside a textual description. I have added now 2 sites and wanted to ask if you could take a look before I proceed. --Michael Haephrati (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Another thing you have commented was "links to scans of sources are not permitted". There are direct links to most of the Amiga magazines, but these links lead to .zip archive per each issue of each Magazine. I have downloaded each issue mentioned and isolated the page of the article (so in some of the cases, these are not scans in fact) and uploaded to Flickr. I can't think of a better way to also display the image of the article cited. The sources for these archives are: Amazing Computing and Amiga World. Michael Haephrati (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can tell you are still using Flickr. That's not the way to do it. For ref #1 for example, you should be citing the journal itself using {{Cite journal}}, leaving out the Flickr link. If someone wants to verify the reference, they use the details in the template to find the journal in, say, a library rather than by looking at Flickr.--ukexpat (talk) 17:44, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

So there is no justification to provide a photo the article page as well (if extracted from the archive)? Michael Haephrati (talk) 17:47, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

In my view no, because a scan is not verifiable (because of the risk, albeit small, of manipulation), whereas as hard copy in a library is verifiable.--ukexpat (talk) 17:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)