User talk:Hallward's Ghost/Archives/2014/December

How to alert other editors

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Hello Mr Gost and welcome to the Wikipedia. :) I sometimes help out at the Teahouse and guide newbies (that is what you are now) so I saw your entry and became intrigued. Always a pleasure to meet someone who appreciate good literature, especially that of Mr. Wilde. To facilitate your communication with other editors, I'm just dropping by to post a little handy note on "how to use the phone" here on the WP. If you have any questions, no matter how trivial (those are always the first ones to arise...) just give me a 'ping' or come visit at my talk page. Here is the com guide:

When someone is posting on your talk page you get an automatic notification. That notification is a red square followed by a long yellow box (for most browsers and settings). In all other cases you have to alert the other editor in some way, either by "ping" or by mentioning them in a link. This will result in a just the red box notification on that users pages. So even if you respond on your talk page you still have to alert the editor you are addressing. If you want to get hold of me you write {{ping|W.carter}} resulting in @W.carter: or [[User:W.carter|W.carter]] resulting in W.carter and sign with the four "squiggles" ~~~~ at the end and hit "Save". There are some more, but these are the basics. And when you ask something on someone's talk page, you also create a new section so your question don't get entangled in some other conversation. If you are having a conversation with another user on some page, it is also customary to add that page to your Watchlist in case someone in the discussion forgets to alert.

The policy is to leave an answer on the same page as the question, keep the conversation intact unless there is some reason for moving it elsewhere. Like complicated questions at the Teahouse can be continued on the appropriate talk page. All the best, w.carter-Talk 19:49, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

I just noticed this message, @W.carter:, sorry about that! It's very useful, and I will be referring back to it frequently. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 15:08, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Please see

File:The Picture of Dorian Gray- Ivan Albright.jpg. Our copy is a bit dark and it's use on Wikipedia is under fair-use law, so I can't post it here directly. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:58, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

• That is an amazing image! Were you wanting my input on it in some way, or just to share it with me? Either way, thanks for sharing it--it's fantastic! Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 15:07, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Just sharing - I figured anybody interested in any other version of Dorian Gray would be interested in this. It's a shame that all of Albright's work is still under copyright, so that we can't display it here, but if you ever have a chance go to the Art Institute of Chicago where you can see a half-dozen of his works in a very similar style. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:31, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Is there no valid Fair Use claim for any of our articles for that beautiful image? Or by "here" do you just mean "on Hallward's Ghosts' talkpage"? Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 19:23, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:WikiProject Novels

Welcome to WikiProject Novels! Great to have another contributor with enthusiasm. If you need any help, let me know; I would be more than interested in giving feedback! Cheers, Sadads (talk) 17:00, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, @Sadads:! I've added all of your Wikiproject's top and high importance articles to my watchlist, to allow me to help protect them from people who try to vandalize them. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 17:47, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi, me and a few other students are doing edits on the Wikipedia article, "Le Morte D'Arthur" and you recently reverted some deletions I made. Much of this article is phrased like an opinion piece and I was trying to fix that without having to redo the entire page. Our group added the two sections "Life of Sir Thomas Malory" and "Style and Theme of Le Morte D'Arthur." Would you have any advice you could give us? Thank you. Cylons4life (talk) 01:23, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

I will take a look. It's quite possible that I was wrong in my reversions. Let me check what I did and get back to you. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 01:31, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

@Cylons4life: After re-examining my reversion, I concluded that you were right about one portion (the larger piece) that you removed. Its tone DOES seem inappropriate. The other part still seems supported by the references cited, though. What do you think about the portion I re-removed? Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 01:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

@Hallward's Ghost: Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I think the text you re-removed helps with the clarity of the article, but in my honest opinion I think the page itself needs a lot of work. This will do for now, maybe someday some brave soul will undertake re-writing all these summaries. Although the information that's offered by the author is interesting, it goes into more than just a summary of the books. Maybe each summary could have a sub-section with this commentary? Cylons4life (talk)

That sounds good, Cylons. Why don't YOU take another pass at fixing the article? I won't revert your work until you're finished, and we can see what the article looks like after you're done. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 02:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Ahh, well, our initial project is due tomorrow and the guidelines only required adding a certain amount of text. However, I do love a challenge; maybe I'll take a shot at it over Winter break on my own. Cylons4life (talk) 23:29, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

User templates

I saw your talk page comment. FYI the way to put the plain welcome on a user's talk is to edit the talk page (creating it) and put the following text on it with no heading:

{{subst:welcome}} ~~~~

You can try that here (on your talk) by editing the whole page, select all text in the edit window and delete it, then paste in the above, then preview the result. Close the edit window to cancel. The "subst:" means that the text displayed in the preview is substituted into the page—if the subst: were omitted, editing the talk page would show "{{welcome}}" and if that template were ever changed, the text displayed on the talk page would change. Most templates designed to be substituted include the name of the template in a hidden comment. There are lots of welcome templates, some of them extremely intrusive IMHO. You can see these at the "See also" link at the bottom of the documentation shown at {{welcome}}. Johnuniq (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips--I did what you said, and that's a pretty cool function. I appreciate the help, and I'll use that template in the future. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 02:09, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

You can also use Twinkle to welcome users and FYI (in case you missed it): Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Gadgets_not_working --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

@NeilN: Thanks for this tip, as I've been using it regularly in recent days. Hallward's Ghost ^{(Kevin) (My talkpage)} 20:30, 12 December 2014 (UTC)