MrSCBaker

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Welcome to Wikipedia, MrSCBaker! I am A8UDI and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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A8UDI 19:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

File:TheBoilermaker-History.JPG

Thank you for uploading this media,

However, it would be nice if you could give some kind of indication as to what license the media is under. That way other people can be confident in making use of it for many varied purposes :)

Adding license information also helps prevent media you've put effort into creating from being deleted :)

You may wish to read Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators which will assist you :)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:18, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:TheBoilermaker-Statue.JPG

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:TheBoilermaker-Statue.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I took this photo and I posted the photo to wikipedia.

Possibly unfree File:TheBoilermaker-Baker90-2008.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:TheBoilermaker-Baker90-2008.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --ww2censor (talk) 12:41, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:TheBoilermaker-Statue.JPG

A tag has been placed on File:TheBoilermaker-Statue.JPG, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. ww2censor (talk) 03:37, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not re-upload this file. As it was stated at the deletion discussion, the statue is still copyrighted and freedom of panorama does not extend to artwork in the United States if it was installed in a public place after 1923. — ξ^xplicit 05:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:TheBoilermaker-History.JPG

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:TheBoilermaker-History.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:59, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Re-uploading deleted files: final warning

This is your final warning you will receive regarding your file uploads, such as File:TheBoilermaker-Baker90-2008.jpg. As I explained above, the image of the statue you are re-uploading is still copyrighted; freedom of panorama does not extend to artwork in the United States if it was installed in a public place after 1923. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. If you re-upload the same file again, you will be blocked from editing. — ξ^xplicit 06:22, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Desmond Tardy

I have nominated Desmond Tardy, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desmond Tardy. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Taelus (Talk) 09:58, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Some tips to help you out!

Hi MrSCBaker, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:MrSCBaker/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 10:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:MrSCBaker/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Something to make your life easier!

Hi there MrSCBaker! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you might appreciate some help with references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 10:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Michael Morton (Criminal Justice)

good job on that article. Decora (talk) 15:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Ryan Baker

I'm guessing you have some sort of relation with Ryan Baker, and he has been invited to tryouts with the Jacksonville Jaguars per this article.

DMC511 (talk) 18:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

In regards to a relationship, yes, Ryan is my younger brother. He is not with the Jaguars, nor does he have a contract with them. Only players with a signed contract can ever be considered roster players or members of the team/squad/franchise, where try-out players have no formal standing as a member of a team. It is not uncommon for a free-agent player to 'try-out' or be 'worked-out' by multiple teams over a short period of time - none of which qualifies the player as a member of the franchise. Perhaps for clarification analogies could be used: tryouts/workouts are equivalent to job interviews, pre-season would be equivalent to a three month internship, practice squad would be equivalent to a long-term paid apprenticeship (lasting up to two years), inactive roster players would be equivalent to full-time fully-licensed substitute teachers who are on the pay roll and have to report to work every day regardless if a staff-teacher (i.e. active roster player) is out or not. Practice players are considered part of the franchise, but not members of the team or squad as they are under a different arrangement than the actual team/squad players. The actual team is officially comprised of both active and inactive roster players and not practice squad players.

--MrSCBaker (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Jason Werner for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jason Werner is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Werner until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:05, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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