User talk:NhInsideWriter

Welcome!

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World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

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Referencing and linking

$$!Dear NhInsideWriter,

Firstly, many thanks for your Congolese contributions. The 1959 riots filled an important gap in our coverage and has been well written. I just wondered though whether you might read the guidelines on how citing and wiki-linking works. For the short SFN citations, for example, you must first link them to the citation in the end with {{harvid}} templates or it will not work. It is also always better to include the page number in the inline citation itself rather than the end one so it will not be lost if the article is expanded later. For linking, for example, make sure that your link actually links to another article rather than a disambiguation page (there are many things called MNC but only one Mouvement National Congolais!) and that there is only one link to each article! Sorry for the lecture (please don't take my comments the wrong way) and I look forward to seeing your future contributions! —Brigade Piron (talk) 10:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- this is helpful. I hadn't used the SFN citations previously, but was following what I saw on some of your contributions, but clearly needed to clean some things up. I appreciate the pointer. NhInsideWriter (talk) 13:00, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!