Jdw518

I need help to work out how it is possible to suggest changes? I am not confident to work with a markup language I have not used and which seems to have no obvious documentation. The pathways may be well defined but they are not obvious if you have not tried them before.

I have suggestions for the Shu Roads entry. I believe they are useful but the pathway to suggesting changes is not clear. Can someone give me the basics?

cheers

jdw518

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The links above will give you some help. I will add some more specific advice here in an hour or two. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 08:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

More advice

So far as the techniques of markup go, Help:Cheatsheet shows the basics, and the WP:Tutorial will walk you through them. You can, in fact you should, use the "Show preview" button to make sure that your change shows as you intended. If it does not, you do not need to click "Save page".

The way to link to another page is to write its name between double square brackets, e.g. typing [[Shu Roads]] gives Shu Roads. That is called a WP:Wikilink

Don't worry too much about getting things just right. Two useful pages describing how Wikipedia works are WP:Be bold and WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. In brief, if you see a change that you think will improve the encyclopedia, be bold and make it; but if it is then reverted, don't make it again, which could start an edit war, but rather discuss it on the article talk page, and try to reach WP:Consensus with other users.

If you do not want to make changes yourself, another approach is to suggest them on the article's talk page (click "Talk" at the top of the article page), and see whether there are any comments or objections. If nobody objects, make the change, or alternatively put a {{helpme}} above your proposal on the talk page to attract other users.

Place another "helpme" below here if you have more questions. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:52, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Reply to your questions

To start a new section on a talk page, you can either make a header by putting two = characters each side, like == Header text ==, or you can click on "New section" at the top of the page, which opens a form with a space for the header and one for the text.

The most usual way to proceed, if you are reasonably confident about an edit, is to BOLDly make it, and see whether anyone reverts it; but it would also be quite acceptable to make a proposal on the article talk page as I suggested, or to leave a question on the talk page of another editor, something like "I propose to change section X to say ABC, and to replace Y with Z, and to add a section about Z, do you have any comments?" A look at the history of the article will show you who else has edited it.

There is a WP:Visual editor available, on beta-test release on an opt-in basis, and so far enabled for article pages only, not talk pages. To enable it, you will need to click "Preferences" at the top of the screen, and from the various tabs presented two lines under the main heading choose "Beta features", check the box opposite "Visual editor", and at the bottom of the page click "Save". After that, on article pages, as well as the "Edit source" link which takes you to the normal Wikitext editor, you will see "Edit beta" which opens the Visual editor. Its user guide is at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide, which has a link to a page where you can practise with it.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

"in time"

Thank you very much for your, mostly stylistic, corrections!

But one wording does not convince me: I know "in itime" as a synonyme of "as early as needed". Here an adverbial like "gradually" is afforded.--Ulamm (talk) 19:53, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Changes Talk

I put a discussion on the Talk page of Shu Roads but I am not sure if it is the right place or not. But it is where my discussion of main changes made and one that is proposed have been put. Welcome to visit and discuss.

Jdw518 (talk) 12:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)