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License tagging for File:Santa Fe Art Colony-CarlosVierra-1917 St. Francis Auditorium.jpg

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Some tips for you!

Hi Prentert, 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:Prentert/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. Pesky (talk …stalk!) 07:18, 14 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:Prentert/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!

I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually.

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!) 07:18, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Elizabeth DeCicco

The article Elizabeth DeCicco has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Sparthorse (talk) 11:36, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I'll hold off taking the article to AfD for a couple of days to allow you time to find proper sources to show how Elizabeth DeCicco is notable, but I've tagged up the article since it currently does not have proper sources and clearly does not demonstrate how the subject is notable. Its particularly important in articles about living people that proper sourcing and notability is provided. Thanks, Sparthorse (talk) 19:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Please don't remove article maintenance tags from articles unless you also fix the problems the tags address. Doing so is disruptive and if you continue you can be blocked from editing Wikipedia. I have given you a lot of leeway here, please don't abuse it. Please also read WP:RS. The majority of, if not all of, the sources you have added to the article are not reliable,. If you can't find better sources the article will likely be deleted. Sparthorse (talk) 20:31, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

November 2011

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Elizabeth DeCicco, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Sparthorse (talk) 06:47, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Elizabeth DeCicco, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Sparthorse (talk) 06:54, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Can you please discuss the changes you continue to make to Elizabeth DeCicco. Removing the maintenance tags without addressing the issues is seriously disruptive. Most of the "references" you are adding are not reliable sources. If you do not replace (or address) the tags, I will go through and remove the inappropriate references (i.e. virtually all of them) instead and propose the article for deletion again. You can reply here or on my talk page. Thanks, Sparthorse (talk) 10:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Santa

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Image copyright problem with File:GHayungainStudio-Photo-EDecicco.JPG

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July 2013

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Margie Rosenkranz

Which source says DeCiccio were her daughter?Xx236 (talk) 11:02, 14 November 2017 (UTC) https://dailygazette.com/article/2017/11/02/50-years-on-eighth-step-shines-bright "“My eldest, Elizabeth, did improvisational theatre and music with Lena [Spencer, Caffe Lena founder and impresario]." Elizabeth's last name is DeCicco from Margie's first husband, Joseph DeCicco. Her second husband was Martin Rosenkranz from which she has two children and names them in the article, Rebecca and Josh. Rebecca and Josh share the last name of Margie Rosenkranz' second husband, Martin Rosenkranz. Same article "...My son Josh did sound for us while in high school, then for the Clearwater Revival and Falcon Ridge. … My daughter Rebecca and friends ran a teen series called Student Underground, presenting among others, a young John Brodeur and band. … Later, she started an Indie Eighth Step series at Proctors, beginning with Lost in the Trees,” a Top 10 Year End pick in The Gazette that year."

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