User talk:Xfanplasma

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Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Induction plasma technology. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article and resubmit when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I have moved your comment to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Induction plasma technology where we will discuss the article, and I will reply shortly. Regards, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

help me please

There are other editing tricks I need to learn:

1/ I found you re-size and re-place the pictures in the proper position. How to do that? Is it the right for authorized people (like you) only?

2/ I even don’t know how to make the references. I place the name of article between the references symbols (ref> and <ref\). The number 1,2, … appears correctly, but no listing and no link for that article.

3/ I also want to link several key words to other Wikipedia entries. For example, link “plasma” to other exist webpage, but I can do only adding behind that word a Http://www.....

4. I don’t know why the table I typed in test should be moved to the end of the entire article. How did you move it back?

Please help, but first I need to know where to go and how to do the “categorize”.

Xfanplasma (talk) 17:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1. There are no 'authorized people' - Wikipedia is the Encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. Picture size and layout is specified like this;

[[File:flower.jpg|100px|right]]

[[File:flower.jpg|200px|left]]

You can also have a 'thumbnail' picture with an optional caption like this;

[[File:flower.jpg|150px|thumb|This is a flower]]

All three examples are shown alongside this message.

2. The referencing system is automatic; in the body text, you put, for example; Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> ...then, at the end of the document, you need a references section with the special code, {{reflist}} - like this;

== References ==
{{reflist}}

The software will then automatically present this reference as a small linked [1], and an entry ion the reference section. For more information about this, please see user:chzz/help/ref.

3. To link to another Wikipedia article, you enclose the word within double square brackets. For example, if you put [[sausage]], it will display as sausage. Sometimes you will need to link one word to another - for example, you would put;

He knew [[John Smith (Chancellor of the Exchequer)|John Smith]].

This will display as;

He knew John Smith.

In other words, it links the words "John Smith" to the article called "John Smith (Chancellor of the Exchequer)".

For more on this, see WP:LINKING.

more in a moment Chzz ► 18:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear friend (Chzz ?),

Thank you very much for the education. Now, I have got a little feeling of WIKI. If my first article could be accepted in less pain, I will be happy to contribute more in the future.

But, do please be kind enough to continue teaching me how to “categorize”. (1) Where to go? (2) Click where? (3) Type what? … I was desperate…

Moreover (do not laugh at me), please advise is this right communication method? Now I “edit” the “discussion page” then “save page” for my text appearing on the page. Each time I do this, I am feeling I am destructing something.

Sincerely

Xfanplasma (talk) 18:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry for that short delay. I had actually typed answers to the rest of your questions - and then my broser crashed :-( Anyway...no problem, I will type them again. And yes, this is one (good) way to ask questions. You don't need to use another helpme though - I am in the process of answering. More in about 5 mins. Chzz ► 18:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

4. Tables. I'm not sure why you had specific problems with a table - perhaps a bracket was missing or something. A simple table is made like this;

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!  Name
!  Age
|-
|  Chzz
|  97
|-
| Jimbo Wales
|  42
|}

That will look like this;

Name	Age
Chzz	97
Jimbo Wales	42

5. Categories (apologies, I know that this was the most urgent - I was hoping I could answer everything quickly; it took longer due to computer problems).

Articles appear in categories because of an entry in the article itself, such as [[Category:Aircraft manufacturers of Russia]]. These lines usually appear near or at the end of the article. The simplest solution is often to look at a similar article and copy the categories over from that. For a quick guide to this, see Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization. For more details, see Wikipedia:Categorization and/or Help:Category.

Now - apologies for giving you lots of information and lots of links. I sincerely hope that this will not put you off. We try to keep Wikipedia as simple as possible, but with 3 million articles and 10 million users, it does tend to get complex. It's all a bit challenging to new users - and I do everything that I possibly can to ease that problem. Hence;

Most important part

Talk to us, with with this or this.

Make a test page, such as User:Xfanplasma/testpage. That link will be red at the moment, because the page does not exist. Click on it, create the page, and try things out. This is in your user area, so please play around as much as you like.

I hope that this has helped. For more help, you can either;

Leave a message on my own talk page; OR
Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR
Talk to us live, with this or this.

Best wishes, Chzz ► 19:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still problem of categorisation

Dear Chzz,

I am awfully sorry to bother you again with the problem of “categorization”.

Please tell me, when I arrived this page

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dense_section_of_spherical_tungsten_carbide.jpg

How and where I should type category: science and category: powders?

Give me one step-by-step example, I will learn it quickly. Usually, I am not too stupid if someone teach me by hand :-).

Sincerely yours Xfanplasma (talk) 17:12, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No bother at all; I'm glad I can help a new contributor.

If you click on the picture (or this link), you will arrive at a Wikipedia page showing a larger image and a description. Note that there is a banner underneath the picture, that reads, "This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below."

Now, if we click on that "description page" link, we'll get to Commons:File:Dense section of spherical tungsten carbide.jpg, and we'll see that the image on commons - notice that the top of the page changes to show that you are no longer on the English Wikipedia site.

Now, click on the "Edit" button at the top, and scroll to the end of the page. You should see that it already has the code {{category: powders}}. This code is incorrect; it needs to be changed to square brackets, ie [[category: powders]]. You could also add it to the other category, by adding [[category: science]] directly below it, on a new line.

If you save that, it should then, at the bottom, show that the file is in the two categories - however, there is a problem - the link to "Category:powders" will be a red link, because that category does not exist on commons. By typing into the search box "Category:powder..." and waiting, I see that there is a "Category:Powder metallurgy" - and that one should work - is that an appropriate category? If so, please add it (and remove 'powders').

I hope that this has helped - it is literally the process I would do myself to try and fix this; it may well not be the most efficient, but perhaps it might at least give you ideas of where to look. Cheers, Chzz ► 17:52, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I hope that this helps, Chzz ► 17:52, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]