How do I create a citation --Mdogv91 (talk) 22:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mdogv91! You might find this set of short tutorial pages helpful, it covers why references are important, what sorts of references are OK to use on Wikipedia, as well as how to actually add the reference to an article. If you've gone through that and still need help, please do let me know what exactly you're struggling with and I'll be happy to assist. Tollens (talk) 06:37, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hello mentor , how do I make a biography of someone? --Tshirelecokarabo (talk) 04:06, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hello, Tshirelecokarabo, I'm Mathglot. Brand new users will find writing a biography a difficult task to tackle at this early stage. I would concentrate on learning how to make smaller edits in existing articles first; see your homepage for some ideas. Once you gain some experience, and Wikipedia terms like Notability, Reliable sources, and WP:BLP are familiar to you, then have a look at Help:Your first article for more details about how to go about writing a new article about someone. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 05:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the help Tshirelecokarabo (talk) 19:00, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Tollens, and thanks for the ping at Talk header. Not sure if you are interested in the multilevel user-warning templates, but I made a proposal here about a proposed change to the text about user contributions, and sandboxed it in {{uw-vandalism1/sandbox}}, in case you feel like commenting. It's been pretty quiet so far, and that page has 1,007 watchers, so it may just be acquiescence by silence. Mathglot (talk) 07:19, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

I do use those templates quite frequently, not sure why I didn't have that talk page on my watchlist so thanks for the pointer! I've left some feedback there. Tollens (talk) 07:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

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আমি এখানে যুক্ত হয়ে সাহায্য চাই --আকবরআলী356545 (talk) 11:14, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello আকবরআলী356545, and welcome to Wikipedia! It seems you might be interested in contributing to the Bengali Wikipedia rather than here at the English Wikipedia; if you need help getting started consider asking there instead.

মেশিন অনুবাদ: হ্যালো আকবরআলী356545, এবং উইকিপিডিয়ায় স্বাগতম! মনে হচ্ছে আপনি এখানে ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়ার পরিবর্তে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া অবদান রাখতে আগ্রহী হতে পারেন; শুরু করার জন্য আপনার সাহায্যের প্রয়োজন হলে পরিবর্তে সেখানে জিজ্ঞাসা করার কথা বিবেচনা করুন। Tollens (talk) 18:55, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

first --Chemrach (talk) 18:16, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello Chemrach – I'm not sure what you mean. Do you have a question about using or editing Wikipedia? Tollens (talk) 18:54, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Your move back to mainspace of List of kidnappings: 2020–present. BLP issues are not for AfD, they should be removed (in general, and from the mainspace in particular). Moving it back to the mainspace while being fully aware of the issues is really a very poor decision. Fram (talk) 07:59, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

@Fram: Sorry, you are absolutely correct, and for some reason I only realized this halfway through typing a response to this which would have disagreed. My original train of thought was that you had misidentified the page as being entirely new content, and so had moved it to draftspace as "this doesn't look ready yet" even though the content there had existed for multiple years. I realize now, and should have before, that you likely meant the move to be similar to WP:BLPDEL. Regardless of your rationale I agree that I shouldn't have restored it, and have literally zero idea why I thought restoring what I agreed were BLP violations was remotely appropriate even if you had made a mistake in moving the page to draftspace. I will give the article a look right away (again, what the hell was I thinking before to not do so previously) to address the BLP issues. I see some of them have been fixed with the most recent edit. If you would like to move it back to draftspace in the meantime please do. Tollens (talk) 08:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! No, between the edit already done and the extra look you will now give it, I see no reason to redraftify it. Don't fret on it, we all make mistakes (I've got the block log to prove it), not repeating them too often is the best we can hope for :-) Fram (talk) 08:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Absolutely – certainly not one I'll make again anytime soon. :-)

I've gone through and removed all the names where I can't find a source for a conviction or where I am certain there has been no conviction yet, and added one missing source; far as I can tell that covers everything that was not resolved in the previous edit. Tollens (talk) 09:25, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, much better now! Fram (talk) 10:42, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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Tollens I need help I tried to add a sourced genre to I wanna be your lover by prince and something bad just happened --DPF429 (talk) 14:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi DPF429, I think I see what's happened and have made the edit I think you were trying to make. Does it look like what I've done is correct? Tollens (talk) 05:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much tollens you see I had a streak of adding unsourced info(some of them is sourced like a 2022 interview of bonnie raitt confirming prince sampled some of her slide on cream) so I finally decided to add something sourced like actually DPF429 (talk) 15:32, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

H --Zeusandrei (talk) 12:08, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Zeusandrei, and welcome to Wikipedia! Did you have a question? Tollens (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

How do I edit my own chat message? It dealt with the Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, GA. Need to resay my blurb was in error inre Capt. Peter Wilterberger association with that cemetery. His was Evergreen from Bonaventure. Thank you in advance. --Cblank2024 (talk) 15:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Cblank2024! There should be a small button that looks like [ edit ] at the end of the title of the section you created, like there is in this section with your question. If you click that button you can edit your comment and the section title, and when you are done, click "Publish changes" at the top of that edit window. This direct link should take you to the edit window for the section you created if you are having trouble finding the button. Tollens (talk) 20:56, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

How do I create a Life section in a page? --DiarrhoeaDemon (talk) 16:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello DiarrhoeaDemon – you should look for reliable sources which talk about the person's life, then summarize what those sources say in your own words, with citations to the sources you are using (there is a good tutorial on how to add citations at WP:INTREFVE). If you know a lot about the person already, it may be tempting to just write what you already know, but this isn't allowed because readers of the article have no way to verify that what the article says is true without citations. If you are asking how to create the section heading itself, you can do this by typing the section title on a new line of the article, then selecting the text, clicking the button that says "Paragraph" in the top bar of the editing window, then choosing "Heading" in the menu. Tollens (talk) 21:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Thx DiarrhoeaDemon (talk) 16:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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