User:Aclayartist/Sandbox

1. Create a paragraph

Talk:Mark (check)
Ceramic Arts about Makers Marks
Redirect "Makers Mark Stamp" to new paragraph
Later develop an article about Makers' Marks

Research proffered article on Warsaw journalist. Verify notability.

2. Check for responses

Talk:Ceramic art

3. Notes for Possible Editing

Erhard Seminars Training

Under Notable Participants, Mike Oldfield, upon some research (in his own Wikipedia article and other website links), apparently participated in "Exegesis", which is cited as the same as EST, which it was not. So it is not clear if Mike Oldfield ever participated in EST and probably should be removed.

Also, missing from the list (I don't know if they should be added or not):

Raul Julia At least two videos on YouTube
Peter Weller (probably not -- there is no readily available info on Google supporting this)
Stephen Hawking one video on YouTube of him speaking about conferences with Werner Erhard

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5. Tips for Writing Biographies

Starting from scratch and want some guidance on creating a biographical article? Follow these helpful tips! Some of them are also useful for work on articles that have already been started.

1. Research the available literature to find reliable sources. Read them carefully, taking notes.
2. Create a proto-article in a subpage of your own user space.
   • Right from the start, cite your sources: it's much easier to do this as you go along than to attempt to do so later.
   • See "How to edit a page" to understand the basics of the wiki markup language. Reference the proto-article, especially biographies of living persons.
   • Check your sources again. Balance and neutrality are vital.
   • At this stage, don't add categories or images. (You'll be able to add them later.)
3. Work up the proto-article until it's coherent and at least slightly informative and has had its facts checked. (It does not yet need either to present a rounded picture of the person or to be a good article in any normal sense; it merely has to be sound in what it does say.)The article, no matter how rough, should clearly state why the person is notable enough to be included in this project, see WP:BIO. It is a good idea to make reference to at least one of the notability determinants in the lead paragraph. Failing to clearly show notability may lead to your new article being quickly deleted.
4. Create a new article on your subject and paste the content of your proto-article there.
   • Read Wikipedia's naming conventions to decide what the page title should be. Also see m:Help:Starting a new page.
   • The history of your proto-article up to this point is unlikely to be of interest to anybody other than yourself, and moving it would force you to re-create your user sub-page. Thus copy/pasting makes sense. However, do note that copying and pasting existing articles is frowned upon in Wikipedia; moving makes the edit history easy to find.
5. Add images such as those obtained from Wikimedia Commons, image list, or by posting a request for an image from other editors.
6. Add the appropriate categories.
   • You may also be able to find suitable categories by looking at related articles, particularly articles about similar people. Failing that, visit the appropriate work groups (which have them listed) or start browsing at Category:People.
7. Linking: check that the internal and external links and footnotes in the article go where you want them to go.
   • Make sure that some other, relevant articles link to a new article, so that the new one isn't "orphaned".
8. Keep working on the article. Chances are that other editors will notice its existence and join you in working on it. If nobody seems to notice it and you'd like one or two to do so, mention the article in the talk page of a relevant "WikiProject" (e.g. Music), or this one, or both.
   • You may find that the newcomers will be interested in aspects of the person that don't much interest you, or will relish aspects of editing that you find a bit tiresome. Thus their work will complement rather than compete with your own.
9. Consider adding a list of works (bibliography, discography, etc.).
10. When you're happy with the article or have done about as much with it as you think you can, consider requesting a peer review by following these instructions.
11. Relax! and take a break if you reached this point. You deserve it!

Notes, Footnotes, or References

Notes and References appear after See also.Contents: This section, or group of sections, presents the explanatory notes and a list of the references that support the information in the article.

Location: The notes and references appear after the See also section (if any) and before the Further reading and External links sections (if any).[4]

Format: As explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to present citations, the format of these sections, their titles, and the specific information in each depends on the citation style used in the article. As explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Consistency, it is inappropriate to change an article from one defined citation style to another unless there is a reason that goes beyond mere choice of style.

[edit] Further reading Shortcuts: WP:FURTHER WP:FURTHERREADING Contents: A list of recommended books, articles, or other publications that have not been used as sources and may provide useful background or further information.

This section does not include publications that were used as reliable sources in writing this article; these should be cited as references. Websites and online publications are normally listed in the "External links" section instead of in this section, although editors occasionally prefer to merge very short lists of publications and external links into this section. To avoid unnecessary duplication of information, publications listed in any other section of the article should not be included in "Further reading".

Location: This section is placed after the References section and before the External links section (if any).[4]

Title of book

This is a bulleted list, usually alphabetized, as explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works). Publications listed in this section are cited in the same reference style used by the rest of the article.

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External links section usually appears lastMain article: Wikipedia:External links Contents: A list of recommended relevant websites that have not been used as sources. Unlike wikilinks, which are often used within the article's text, external links are normally limited to the "External links" section. Links to external websites used as sources should be listed in the "References" or "Notes" section. External links may be listed in the section "Further reading", instead of having a separate section specifically for external links.

Location: If there is an External links section, it should be last.[4] There are a number of reasons for this, including: So many articles have the External links section at the end that many people expect that. Some External links and references sections are very long, and when the name of the section is not visible on the screen, it could cause problems if someone meant to delete an external link, and deleted a reference instead. Keeping the External links last is also helpful to editors who patrol external links.

Format: External links should be arranged in a bulleted list, with a short description of the link and no blank lines between items. By convention, if the article is about a company or organization, then its official website is the first link in the list.

6. Biographies to update

Ben Aaronovitch

Still waiting for a picture from Ben.

→A few additions should anyone care to add them. The B7 Audio series that I script edited and wrote is now being streamed by SciFi UK on their website here: http://www.scifiuk.com/blakes7/ The Title of the 'Ghosts of Ancient Terra' has been changed to 'Terra Incognita' release year is still 2007. 'Number Two Is Missing' has been set back to 2008 There is biographical data available at the B7 site http://www.b7media.com/. Ben Aaronovitch 82.35.57.16 09:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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"Thought Leaders"

Stephen Covey

This article is done for now.

Joel Kurtzman

Coined the phrase "Thought leader"

Paul Hershey

A sports writer. Quoted in book "Leadership Best Advice I Ever Got" by Paul Thornton.

Ken Blanchard

(Leadership Training) Sent an email message asking for a pic for his bio.

Danah Zohar

American Philosopher (IQ, EQ, SQ) see: [1] Biography from back cover of "The Quantum Self" -- Danah Zohar received her B.S. in physics and philosophy from MIT and completed three years of postgraduate study in philosophy and religion at Harvard University, where she was a student of Erik Erikson. She and her husband, Dr. I.N. Marshall, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with whom she collaborated on this book, live in Oxford, England.

1/14/09 - change added from Biography in her book "Quantum Self" about studying with Erik Erikson.

Stephen Hawking

Theoretical physicist. Very interesting guy.

Dorothy Gilman, author

Done!

Footnotes

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