User talk:Jkrog08

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Welcome

Jkrog08,

Hi. You have made some good contributions to tinWiki, I notice. This is a comment to give you some style and formatting tips.

A page title is already the article title. This means that there is no need to create an article title in addition to the page title that is already there. In the first sentence of the article, the words that are the same, or relate to, the page/artticle title, should be given bold font. Other than that, bold font isn't really used very much. To add emphasize to a word, instead of bold font or all caps, consider using italics.

Sections should be given properly formatted headers. The wiki code to create a header is to keep the header on its own line, and then put two equal signs on each side of the header. Example:

== Some header or other ==

Lists of sources/references are very good and appropriate to include in an article. Such lists should get their own sections, same as other particular lists should also get their own sections. Take a look at how some other articles are formatted, and never be afraid to add features like proper section headers. It isn't "over the top" to add headers, but helps the article to be easy to get an overview over for the reader. The last thing I want to mention in this comment is that all articles in tinWiki are open to collaborative editing. This means that no article published in this wiki website should be considered a personal work or property. For this reason, no articles should be signed in any way. Only discussion posts should be signed.

You've been making some interesting and nice contributions to tinWiki. Keep up the good work. :-) Optimist 15:26, 21 June 2008 (CDT)

Some tips

Jkrog08,

I noticed you changed some emphasis formatting to use italics instead of bold font or upper case. Good work, it looks much better now.

When an page is created, it has a title. That title appears at the top of the article. So: do not write a second article title in the article text. The article text shall begin with an introduction, no more, no less, and only sections that follow the introduction get headers. When you do create headers, do this using the proper header formatting (see my previous post for how to make those). A list of sources shall have its own section. Make a header, and put the list under the header. If you want to make a better looking list, add an asterisk at the beginning of each line to make a bulleted list, even if there's just one line, yet.

As for being documented as the person who initiated a page: all pages, both articles and discussions, have a version history list. Each and every edit is saved with date and user name. For example the Conspiracy article's version history is here. That means that it will always be recorded with a page who initiated the page, and indeed what the first and every later edit was. In addition to this, you can post a comment in the discussion of the article you initiate. Click on the plus sign in the discussion, write a header like "Initiated page", and write something about the initiation. Remember to always finish discussion posts with the signature code.

You may also be interested in putting some content in your personal user page. One of the types of content people put in their user pages, is to list articles they have initiated. My user page is here, and as you can see I have done that, listing pages I have initiated. Your user page is here. Do not include any kind of signature in the articles themselves.

Keep up the good work, Jkrog08. Optimist 12:12, 23 June 2008 (CDT)

How to add an image

Sorry, I forgot to reply about images. Everything you need to know is found through this page. Remember to enter all images you include in articles into that page, the image description page. The codes to use to display images, and the image use policy, are both found through links towards the bottom of the gray box. If you have any questions about those instructions, let me know and I will try my best to clarify. Optimist 13:36, 23 June 2008 (CDT)