Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! I wanted to let you know that a number of your recent edits are probably unnecessary, and I thought you might have made them because you didn't realise the wiki software is already doing the hard work for you. When a word is surrounded by brackets like this:
[[word]]
the software will automatically go looking for an article named Word. You don't need to help it out by changing links to:
[[Word|word]]
Hopefully my explanation makes sense! Also, I notice you refer to such changes in the edit summary as citations. They're really just
wikilinks.
Citations are references to support the statements you make in your article (which I see you have plenty of in your draft, that's great). The reason I make the point is it might lead to confusion later on when discussing with other editors.
Finally, when preparing a draft and waiting for a review you might not want to place the draft page in disambiguation pages such as
Zinger. This might lead to users being taken to the page before it's been reviewed and ready.
Hope this is helpful and not
TMI! If you want to reply to this message, edit the section and add a colon next to your reply, like:
Hopefully I'm replying correctly. If not, I'll soon find out. LOL Thank you for all the information!
I have a some questions:
If the word I'm using is to be lowercase instead of the uppercase found in the Wiki URL and I use [[word]], will it find the correct Wiki link and keep my lowercase in the article?
Do I need to go back and change my edit summaries to something else in the one's that I used the word "citations" in?
What should I be saying in the edits instead?
Sometimes there's already words written in the edit summary - should I just keep them instead of writing something else?
Should I put my 4 tildes at the beginning and end of my reply and/or comments?
No worries at all! With the replies, if you use a <br /> tag the colon in the reply won't do its job. You might notice that I've used two colons here... each successive reply uses one more colon, so each reply is indented a little more.
If I've understood your question correctly, yes :) The idea is that you can just include a word like
healthcare in a sentence without having to capitalise it.
No, there's no need to change the edit summaries (in fact, you can't).
Something simple like Fix healthcare WL (WL is short for wikilink)... although of course they didn't really need fixing!
You may be seeing summaries like /* Section Title */? If you see one of those, it's because you're editing a section. You should put your summary after that, because it will help other editors understand which part of the article you changed.
You got it! Yeah, it looks like a small indent when you only add one colon, but trust me on a big page with lots of people responding to a thread, it becomes a necessity :)
You might not know about
wikiprojects. There are a bunch of 'em... I edit in medical, nursing, New Zealand, and computing areas mostly. I suggest picking your favourite topics, or something you're particularly knowledgeable about, and seeing if there's a project that covers it. Such projects can be a way of finding like-minded editors and pages that need work. For example, because your article was about a mobility tool, you might be interested in
WP:DISABILITY. Or, because the company is from Virginia, you could check out
WP:VIRGINIA. Or because maybe you like parakeets, you could look at
WP:BIRDS.
Basie (
talk)
20:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)reply
WOW! Thank you! That info gave me lots to ponder. I think I'm going to just stick to five topics so that I'm not all over the place. Plus, I read a lot of books about these topics, so I am more familiar with them. I think I will write about:
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Basie (
talk)
21:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Orphaned non-free image File:Zinger Mobility Chair logo white bg.png
Thanks for uploading File:Zinger Mobility Chair logo white bg.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
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Your recent article submission to
Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:
This submission appears to
read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a
neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of
independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's
verifiability policy and the
notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.
The comment the reviewer left was:
This draft is far too advertorial in tone.
In spite of the "sales pitch" claim that it is "not a wheelchair" it quite obviously is one, just by looking at the photos on the official website.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to
Draft:Zinger (mobility device) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to
Draft:Zinger (mobility device), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
Hello, SherryOcean!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk)
21:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)reply
You're invited
Hello, SherryOcean, I have noticed your interest in articles related to
Disability. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Disability, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles dealing with disability on Wikipedia.