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My strange advice on the help desk re: Karl Keffer

Thanks for you addition. The reason I tried to get the questioner to interact with that other editor is that I think the questioner is an older person who may find it difficult to navigate our policies and procedures by herself. (Yes, this is ageist. I'm 71 years old myself.) Further, she is Canadian, and that other editor is experienced and has a declared interest in Canadian golfers. Hence my unusual advice in this case. -Arch dude (talk) 20:43, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@Arch dude: ahhh I see! I only added what I did because I thought those pages I linked to could be useful in that situation - in addition to what you had replied - it wasn't because I thought your advice wasn't helpful though! Seagull123 Φ 21:39, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Images and Tables

Hi. It's HolSegel again...you are going to be so sorry that you invited me to contact you with questions! LOL! I have been working on my article and now I am to the final stage of uploading 3 images and 2 tables. The tables are a bit complex so I am wondering if they can be uploaded as an image as well? Also, if you wouldn't mind pointing me to where I can find the tutorial on how to upload images, I will be in your debt! I am not sure I get the signature bit...````HolSegel — Preceding unsigned comment added by HolSegel (talk • contribs) 15:33, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi @HolSegel: for help with inserting tables, have a look at Help:Table and Help:Wikitable. These pages explain how to add tables to articles (the first page is a bit more complex than the other). For other pages explaining how to use tables, look at the "see also" section here: Help:Table#See also. For help on how to put images into articles, look at Help:Visual file markup and Wikipedia:Images. For help on how to upload images to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons, look at Wikipedia:Uploading images, Commons:First steps/Uploading files and Help:Introduction to images with Wiki Markup. Hopefully this helps you! PS: to insert your signature, you need to type four tildes, like this: ~~~~. That will produce your signature. Seagull123 Φ 17:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Seagull123HolSegel (talk) 15:39, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Dermatophytosis

I am 77. My forte is veterinary medicine, not IT. I received an email a few minutes ago from Wikipedia. I am assuming you are the gatekeeper for the dermatophyte page. Perhaps you might send me another email just stating yes or no to accepting my update of your broken link to my url. And yes, I wrote the article. I will abandon attempting to correct Wikipedia broken links if this and the next few fail. I have a white pelican and parrot with a broken wing and leg that I need to focus my attentions on. Ron Hines — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronaldhines (talk • contribs) 18:21, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Ronaldhines: I realise now that my reply to you was unnecessarily short and lacking in detail. I will try and explain my response and what you could do now. Because you made an edit request (using the {{edit semi-protected}} template), your request appeared in this category: Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests, where editors who want to help make the edit can help out. I am not the 'gatekeeper' for the page - on Wikipedia, no one is the gatekeeper for anything (you can read more about this at Wikipedia:Ownership of content). My response to you (here) was only intended to point you towards two pages that could be of interest to you - one regarding Wikipedia's policies on citing sources you published yourself, and one regarding the use of email on Wikipedia (as you included your email address in your request). I apologise for how short my response was, as I now realise it would have been of more use to you if I had elaborated on why I was writing that. Thank you for wanting to help improve Wikipedia! I will soon leave a message on your talk page with links that may help you understand how Wikipedia works. While I hope you feel like you are able to continue improving Wikipedia, as it says here, you are not obliged to edit here. In terms of your edit request, I will shortly get around to looking at the links you left, and sorting it out. If you do need any more help, you can always leave me another message here on my talk page, or if you want help from other editors, you could ask at the help desk. Seagull123 Φ 21:44, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lanoisseforp trepxe

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A tag has been placed on Lanoisseforp trepxe, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi @Tagishsimon: I didn't write this article, that was Lanoisseforptrepxe, who keeps making the same article with different titles; I merely moved it to draftspace (that's why Twinkle thought I wrote the article). I know this message was only left here because of Twinkle, but I thought I would let you know. Seagull123 Φ 19:09, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello, and thank you for deleting the page(s) I made by mistake! Nathan43 (talk) 19:30, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Nathan43: You're welcome! However, I've just noticed that because the page is now User talk:Nathan43/Archive1 (without a space between archive and 1), it isn't linked to in the archive box on your talk page, so you may want to move it (again). Seagull123 Φ 19:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Seagull123:Thanks again. Yes I really messed it up. I tried to rectify my first mistake by removing the space but that was wrong too. I'm working on fixing it. Nathan43 (talk) 19:50, 24 November 2020 (UTC)