JohnDS Olszewski

Hello, JohnDS Olszewski, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Pgallert (talk) 08:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Namibian weather

Dear John, Wikipedia is happy to have the subject experts on board, welcome! Your addition to the article Namibia is much welcome. It would be fantastic if you could provide a few references for your overview---to your own articles, or to whatever sources you use, but beware of self--plagiarising, which is not allowed. I have placed a tag for the time being.

If you reference text to your own writings you might get automated or individual conflict of interest warnings (because of your account name and the match to the article author). Don't worry too much about that, I can help if there is any problem. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 08:26, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Edit tests on Namibia

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References

See my answer to your question.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:44, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Dear John, I have inserted a fragment of a reference to Namibia, according to the information you gave on Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 August 30#Namibia. It would be great if you could check the title and give further information, if possible (url if the source is online, author or editor, publication date). As for the rainfall measurements, the question is if it has been published anywhere:

• If it has been published, or if it is theoretically available (not necessarily online), then it can be used as reference. Just tell me where it could be accessed, and I will enter the information. It is not a perfect source for Wikipedia because it is primary data, but it is better than nothing.
• If it is your data and has not been published, then Wikipedia calls this Original Research, and it cannot be used. This is mainly because no one but you could verify it, and we do not want to be in this situation.

Either way, if you wrote something similar in one of your articles, it would be much better to reference the text in Namibia to your publications. Again, we need publisher, date, title, and if possible url. You can post the information right here if you want; I have your talk page on my watchlist and will see whenever anyone adds anything. Thanks again for your contribution, Best regards, Pgallert (talk) 08:08, 4 September 2012 (UTC)