Entwhiz

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Hey

You mentioned that one of your edits was reverted. I've checked your contributions, and this is not the case. Perhaps you clicked 'preview' instead of 'save'?

As for the live chat vs the help desk: bear in mind that people help in the live chat as and when their schedules permit. I'm not always there!

Also, live chat is not archived (unless someone makes a specific effort). The difference is more obvious to those of us who use separate programs for IRC vs the Web; however, since not everyone is able to figure out IRC software, a customized web interface was created to bridge the gap between protocols (if you don't understand what this means, don't worry; you don't need to).

The content changes you have suggested seem - to me, at least - to be valid and well-considered; I encourage you to implement them. Remember to click 'preview' first, to make sure everything is working, and if it is, to click 'save'.

Good luck. DS (talk) 14:15, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Help confusion

Hi.

Re. "live chat where no one can hear me",

Over on the live help, there are often several people asking questions at the same time. It's not a 1:1 conversation; everyone sees what everyone else types. I'm sorry; I know it can be confusing at first. But, people could "hear" what you said. Sometimes, it can take time to get answers; we're all just volunteer editors, same as you.

If you want to try it again, this is the link. Sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's quiet; sometimes you get great help really quickly, other times you get useless help after a long delay. So 'your mileage may vary' - but when it works well, it can work very well.

You also said, "is this the Wikipedia help desk? I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place" - and yes, you were in exactly the right place, Wikipedia:Help desk.

Some people did try to answer your question there, in the section Stuck in a live chat where no one can hear me - if that section disappears before you get a chance to read it, it'll have been archived, into Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2011.

I hope that helps.

The best way to contact Chzz is IRC (text-chat), here  · Second-best is my talk page · Third-best is email Chzzlive.co.uk

 Chzz  ►  07:40, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Dreyfus and footnoting

Hello, Entwhiz,

Regarding your edit summary here, at Dreyfus affair, if you have this citation (copied from your summary):

Source - don’t know how to put a footnote in, sorry - is Hanson, Kenneth, Words of Light: Spiritual Wisdom from the Dead Sea Scrolls. San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2000, pp. 65-68.

then you add a citation like this:

• <ref>Hanson, Kenneth, Words of Light: Spiritual Wisdom from the Dead Sea Scrolls. San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2000, pp. 65–68.</ref>

Can you paste that into the article, in the right location (right after the material you added)? In general, see Help:Footnotes for further details. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:13, 27 July 2020 (UTC)