User talk:JohnHarmonPrice

Welcome!

Hello, JohnHarmonPrice, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Ga rr ie 06:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Utopia, Northern Territory[edit]

The place name strikes me as odd... it is straight out of an Aldus Huxley novel so I went to the article thinking it was vandalism but the extenal link shows it as being real!

Hope my copyedit is in line with where you want the article to head. Do you need assistance with in-line citation on Wikipedia using <ref> and </ref> tags? Try looking at WP:CITE, I think you should be able to manage it if you did the inline citations with subscripts.Ga rr ie 06:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Logging in[edit]

You may find this Q&A and the one after that helpful. Btw, would you like me to adopt you? Xiner (talk, email) 12:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are several ways to communicate with the community, depending on what you want.

Only link when it's on-topic, and generally not to the same word more than twice in an article. Xiner (talk, email) 13:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Saving as you go[edit]

Not too sure of your problem but here goes...

I know I have occaisonal problems where when I hit alt-s / press "save page" - the page "goes nowhere" and I am at a previous revert. Sometimes the "back" button on my browser helps me out, sometimes it does not. Only answer so far: select all the text in the Edit box and press ctrl-c (copy) before you hit "save".

(it just happened to me here - but when I hit the back arrow I got back to my edit OK)

If you are talking about "producing a draft article" then try a sandbox - make a link on your user page User:JohnHarmonPrice/Sandbox1. It will be red. The first time you follow it you will get a blank page. Put anything on it and hit save. You will have a new sandbox for trying things out on (look at User:GarrieIrons#Sandboxes, I have several they get used for different projects).

Hope this all helps!

ps. Please, sign your posts on talk pages using four ~ (next to the 1 on the keyboard) characters. like this: Ga rr ie 01:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Points to remember for sandboxes:

if you are using a category, put a colen at the front of the category name like this [[:category:Sydney]]
if you are using a template, which will put the article in a category, use tl: in front of the template name like this {{tl:talkarchive}}

When you get something like an article in the sandbox, you can use the move tab to move the sandbox article to article-space (if no article already exists with the name you want to use). That way your edit history goes across too (which may / may not be what you want). Once you have moved the sandbox article to article space remember to get rid of the :'s and tl:'s, so the template and categories are used correctly.Ga rr ie 03:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Utopia, Northern Territory[edit]

Hi,

I noticed you replaced a paragraph in Utopia, Northern Territory but it appeared in a dotted box. I have fixed this, but in case you had noticed it and couldn't work out why, it was caused by a space appearing before the first word in the paragraph! Removing the space solves the problem nicely. –MDCollins (talk) 09:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I wasn't around earlier by MD both fixed the issue, and gave a great answer. I don't really know when someone

might want this effect

but it is created by a space as the first character on the line.

Have a look in your sandbox, the top section in the dashed box is from your edit. Below is the same text with the leading space removed.

Ga rr ie 11:15, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS. Yes, I do use the sandbox to work things into a state that's article-space ready. Sometimes things like this happen (I frequently find references all of a sudden break between sandbox and article space and it annoys the hell out of me!)Ga rr ie 11:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]