Kathryn Haber

July 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Homer, Alaska 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. NeilN ^{talk to me} 21:01, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, Kathryn Haber, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Homer, Alaska

Hi Kathryn. External links added to the city article need to lead to websites that focus on the city itself, rather than organizations within the city. Otherwise we would have hundreds of links in New York City for example. What you can do, however, if these organizations are particularly notable within the city, is add a few sentences within the article itelf describing the organizations. Be sure to provide reliable sources (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles) to prove their notability.

As for your other question, there's a video in the Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page article. If you have any further questions about editing (or anything else) you can ask me or at Wikipedia:Help desk or Wikipedia:Teahouse. I hope this helps. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:57, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Nice to see another Homeroid on Wikipedia. I've been thinking about this and it occurs to me that it may be possible to drum up a whole new section for the article on Homer that focusses on the numerous non-profit organizations and charities we have here. It really is an exceptionally high number of such organizations for a town this size. a good way to start, if you are interested, would be for us to compose a list on the article's talk page and try to find at least one reliable source for each one. They wouldn't actually have to pass the bar of independent notability as we will only be mentioning them within the context of the larger article on Homer. For what it's worth I did consider the idea that Coastal tudies could have its own article, but a search for online refs came up with a dissapointingly small number of trivial mentions, not enough to base an article on in my opinion. However, a lot of newspapers and magazines only have a year or two of their articles abailable online. If you have a contact at Coastal Studies perhaps they would have clippings or other records of coverage that is not available online. So long as they meet Wikipedia's definition of a reliable source whether they are online or not is not relevant. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox I'd love to get together with you Monday or Tuesday in Homer if you are available. I'd really like to get more involved with posting to Wikipedia and would love a strategy for doing excellent posts for Homer/ our charities/their national and global impacts.

Also, I am mentoring a group of highly motivated teens who are organizing TEDxYouth@Homer on Thursday, July 26 from 5-9:30 pm at the High School. Part of their focus is technology. I'd like to involve them in posting youth related things. But first, I have to learn and would love a bit of guidance from you. They have won several national awards, pioneered firsts for TEDx, and want to make a post on their event-if that is appropriate. They have noticed that other TEDx events have their own posts. FYI-I (for Homer) had the 12th license globally for an independently organized TED event.

I am happy to do CACS research and know they have an archive of articles going back 30 years. I was president for several years and convene the Elders Council. 299-2363

Actually this week is no good for me. I won a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation and I am flying to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to attend Wikimania. I am going to be super busy on Monday tying up loose ends before I leave. Incidentally, my scholarship application was based on the idea that I would use the opportunity to learn about what is involved in putting together one of these conferences so that I can examine the possibility of bringing it to Alaska. These things take a couple of years to plan and there is an Olympics-style bidding process to become the host city. At present I am the only person working on this idea, if you or anyone you know would be intersted in something like that I can use all the help I can get.

The TED conference is probably something we could work into the article, I seem to recall coverage in the past from the papers and KBBI. Their archive is kind of a pain to search but I have used it a few rimes in the past. The main things you need to know about as far as what is and is not appropriate content are the principles of verifiability and notability. The local Homer papers and KBBI are grat for verification purposes, not so useful for establishing notability. I also recommend to anyone who wants to get a good, concise overview of what Wikipedia is and how it works to check out the five pillars of Wikipedia. There are a million different guidelines and so forth but the five pillars are really the most important things to know, the rest comes in time as you gain experience here. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)