User talk:Dvbyrne

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Regarding the questions you had

Hello, Dvbyrne. You have new messages at WP:Help desk#Confused about new articles/articles for creation/talk article etc..
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—Akrabbim^talk 12:37, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

July 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Silver as an investment do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Yworo (talk) 18:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Several issues here: we never link books to publisher sales pages; if it has a Buy-It-Now link, don't link to it. Just include the ISBN which goes to a page where the book can found in libraries and a full selection of online retailers. Second, self-published investment research documents are not reliable sources. And we do not allow linking to documents hosted on free file hosting servers, which is usually done in violation of the document creators copyright. If it's your document, we consider that spamming and a conflict of interest. Yworo (talk) 18:40, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yworo. Thanks for the information. I'm somewhat new to this and I appreciate all the discussions and tips - I definitely don't want to end up blocked! I will remove the links to the sales pages and the file hosting server site and see what I can do about citing that information appropriately. Any other tips/information is very much appreciated. Cheers!Dvbyrne (talk) 18:56, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry, Yworo just one more question - I see the the chart I inserted for the top producing mines was removed even though it didn't link to a 'self-published investment research document'. Is this because it included the link to the publisher sales page? I would like to add it back as I don't see any other issue aside from the external url, but if you had another reason for removing it can you please let me know. Also, how do I edit a reference after I've created it? (So I can remove the external url on the silver page edit I made?) Thanks!Dvbyrne (talk) 19:14, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've fixed my citations but I always appreciate feedback. Dvbyrne (talk) 20:56, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Silver as an investment

A list of mining companies is not needed on this article. Please simply link to where the information has been added to a more appropriate article, such as Silver mining. It's simply excessive off-topic detail in Silver as an investment. Yworo (talk) 21:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Yworo!

Just checking...

I've cancelled your "help me" since it looks as if Yworo has answered your questions. If I've got that wrong, and you still need help on something, please feel free to ask a new question and add a fresh "help me". -- John of Reading (talk) 21:10, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi John of Reading. Where should I look for Yworo's answers? Yworo did help me with my citations by removing ones that didn't follow wikipedia standards, but I still need to know how to edit a reference that is ok but spelled wrong, and also how to delete duplicate pages. As far as I can tell, Yworo didn't provide an answer to these particular questions. Am I looking in the wrong place? Sorry, there are so many different means of communicating on wikipedia I don't feel fully oriented yet. Thanks for the help - it's nice to encounter users who don't "bite newbies." Dvbyrne (talk) 22:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I only looked at the section above - it looked like one end of a conversation, so I just assumed that Yworo had given more detail somewhere else! This page is a good way to ask for help, but you would have got a faster response if you'd added a new {{helpme}} tag, since that would have alerted all the helpers.

To edit a reference, the simplest way if the article isn't too long is to click the "Edit" link right at the top of the page, where it says "Read / Edit / History". Then use your browser's "Find" function (Ctrl-F in most browsers) to search for the incorrect word. You'll find it somewhere within a pair of <ref> ... </ref> tags or perhaps inside a template such as {{cite web}}. Fix the spelling, then "preview" to see if you've done it right, then "save". If you're not familiar with the reference syntax, then Help:Footnotes would be a good place to start reading.

Deletion of a duplicate page - it depends on what the pages are. Looking through your contributions I think you are talking about Wikipedia:Articles for creation/South American Silver Corp. Because you are the only contributor to that page, a way to request deletion would be to add the magic text {{db-author}} at the top. When you "preview", that will show as a big red deletion request. Then save that, with an edit summary like "Requesting deletion of duplicate page, see [[South American Silver Corporation]]". That will put the page into a queue for the admins to look at. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]