User talk:Matumeru

Hi there. Looking forward to working on this project with you. Jes029 (talk) 04:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for the message (which arrived just as I was going to bed rather late last night). I'll be delighted to be your mentor - feel free to contact me about anything that you need help with, either on my Talk page or by email.

Nairobi - yes, I lived there for about seven years. Kenya was very different from England (especially the temperature of the sea!). When I first went to secondary school {Delamere School, now Upper Hill School, I think) it was all-white, but after a couple of years, it was the first white school in the country to admit African and Asian pupils. When I left, it was about 50% white. One of my teachers, Norman Myers, took groups of boys up various mountains, and I reached the top of Kilimanjaro and Point Lenana on Mount Kenya. Norman, now in his 70s, hosts reunions from time to time.

I look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes. --GuillaumeTell 11:50, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Matumeru. Thanks for getting the ball rolling for our project. I'm looking forward to working with you (and you as well Guillaume). -KJD2011 (talk) 02:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page etiquette[edit]

Hello again. I have no idea whether any of this has already been covered in your classes, but, if not, there are a few things relating to Talk pages that you need to know. Apologies if you know all this already, but feel free to ask questions if not or if you can't understand what I'm talking about.

When starting a topic on someone's Talk page, always start by first clicking the "New section" tab up at the top. That gives you the usual edit box, but above this is a one-line box which invites you to put in a subject or headline. I've put "Talk page etiquette" there, and this will be miraculously converted into a headline above what I'm typing now. Not filling in the subject/headline box can make following what's going on a little confusing.
As you can see when you read this, the other thing that using the subject/headline box does is to put the new topic at the bottom of the page. If you look upwards from here, you'll see that the greeting fromJes029 (talk) was added out of chronological order to the top of the page, whereas KJD2011 (talk) put his after mine. Of course, this is no big deal at this early stage, but it's worth remembering when things start hotting up.
If you're adding a comment or a question to a topic that's already there (e.g. what I'm typing now), you don't need to use a subject/header - just put a colon at the start of the line below what you're commenting on and your comment will be indented.
If you're engaging in a to-and-fro with another user, you can either have the whole conversation on your own page or you can post alternately on each other's page. I don't have an opinion on this, and sometimes do one and sometimes the other, usually depending on what the other person wants. See, for example, the request at the top of User talk:PamD. Putting the other person on your Watchlist (by clicking the five-pointed star right at the top of the page to the left of the Search box so that it turns blue) will enable you to see when they reply (or, indeed, to see what they're doing!). I have this page, as well as another 2,500 or so, on my watchlist.
If you see something on someone else's Talk page or User page that you want to use yourself (say, a user box or a link or a table or these bullets that I'm using at the start of each point), you can pretend to edit their page (or a section with a blue [edit] alongside the header) and just copy/paste whatever it was to wherever you want it to go - it's a good idea to have a duplicate Wikipedia open as well as the one you're "editing" - and then abort the "edit" by using the Back button or doing a Search.
Finally, a very good habit to get into when editing or creating content in Talk pages or your own User page or - very important - Wikipedia articles, is pressing the "Show preview" button down below the edit box. This enables you to read what you wrote and where it's positioned and suchlike, and you can alter it, and indeed keep on altering it and pressing Show Preview each time, until you're satisfied. I'm just going to do that now to see if I've messed anything up.
Yes, I made a few alterations.
Hope this doesn't make your head hurt. Feel free to pass any of it on if anyone asks. Best. --GuillaumeTell 17:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Comments[edit]

I made some comments on the articles page. Good start so far. Jthebooknerd87 (talk) 18:28, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note[edit]

Hi. I've been away and am still catching up. I had a quick look at the article and spotted a problem or two. I'll get back to you (and KJD2011) later today once I've sorted a few things out and thought about what needs doing. Best. --GuillaumeTell 16:45, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your question about a paper[edit]

Hi. Sorry not to have replied earlier, but I've just got back from a couple of days in London. Could you let me have the URL for the paper? I'm assuming that you found it on the Internet, but, if not, the author, title, source, journal, etc. would be useful. I may be able to offer advice, but I'm no great expert on this sort of thing. However, if I'm not sure, I also have a couple of Wikipedia contacts who will probably be able to say yea or nay. I'll keep you informed once you've let me have the details. Best. --GuillaumeTell 16:31, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I presume that the "for personal use only" refers to the pdf file that you downloaded - there's nothing on the page that I've looked at that says anything about what you can and can't do (and I have no access to the full text, whereas I assume that IU has a licence). You can definitely quote short passages from the article in your WP article provided you give all the details (article title, author(s), journal title, date, page numbers, ISSN, etc.) in your ref(s). There are templates you can use which you may know about: Template:Cite journal or possibly Template:Cite web. You'd probably need to add "Subscription required" at the end of the ref. Hope this helps - get back to me if you have problems, questions, etc. --GuillaumeTell 17:15, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]