User talk:Rayrayemu

Useful tip

A tip you might find useful; many find it useful to check Recent changes (available in the top left-hand corner) when they come by, to coordinate with other people. (In case you didn't see the below, which I will explicitly tag here for you.) Jnc (talk) 14:31, 20 May 2023 (CEST)

Tandy categories

You might want to check out Category talk:Tandy TRS-80, I'd love to get your take. Jnc (talk) 14:31, 20 May 2023 (CEST)

Oh, BTW: when you re-name a category, you have to manually edit all the pages in the category so they are in the re-named category. Jnc (talk) 19:39, 20 May 2023 (CEST)

Learning curve

No problem with start-up issues; everyone goes through a learning period.

To add the timestamp to the signature, use the special form ~~~~ which adds both. Jnc (talk) 21:51, 20 May 2023 (CEST)

Edit summary boxes

Hi, I've noticed that you usually leave the 'Summary' box blank when you do edits. Please always put something in the 'Summary' box, so that when looking at the history later, people will be able to get a rough sense of what was done, without needing to click on the 'prev' link of that revision. Thanks! Jnc (talk) 03:22, 22 May 2023 (CEST)

I have been making sure to follow through with this, also, off-topic, how do I delete pages or categories since I overhauled so much.

Only admins can delete pages; I have been doing the cleanup for you (no problem). When you do a move, there should be a 'Leave a redirect behind' box; if you don't have any use for a redirect at the old name, un-check that, and there won't be anything to clean up.

Starting to look good! Jnc (talk) 13:51, 22 May 2023 (CEST)

Two more editing notes

For a reason that I used to know, but have forgotten, Wikipedia (and thus here) uses '==' as the top level section marker. (I'll have to make a note of that in the syntax Help: page.)

Also, Wikipedia style is generally to only link the first instance of a term on term on a page; something else I'll have to note on the syntax Help: page. (See what I did there? :-) Jnc (talk) 14:20, 22 May 2023 (CEST)

Oh, yeah; liberal use of the 'Show preview' button before 'Save changes' will prevent many editing errors (and thus littering the edit history with their fixes). I don't use it as much as I should - and often regret it when I don't! Jnc (talk) 14:40, 22 May 2023 (CEST)

I do use preview a lot but since it doesn't show Category Links, there have been a few times where I have mistyped a category name and have had to go back and fix it. Same thing has happened to me with other links.  :As far as the top level headings, I only used a single = because that seemed logical coming from an HTML background. I will fix those.

Also, to the best of knowledge I have only linked things one but may have accidentally done it before, especially in my first couple of articles since I was still figuring things out.

Lastly, I hope that I am starting to make less mistakes and outputting a better product, so to speak. I am on my phone right now so I can't do any more editing until I get home but hopefully I can add another article or two tonight.

One last thing, if I just using Wikipedia to literally jog my memory on things like specific dates and spelling, do I still have to credit it? Rayrayemu (talk) 19:40, 22 May 2023 (CEST)

No, preview does show (new) categories - just on the very bottom line of the window, underneath everything else. The preview thing that doesn't work with categories is if you add category X to a draft Y, hit 'preview', and then go look at category X, 'Y' won't be shown in the category (yet); you have to hit 'Save' on Y before it will show up in X.

You are definitely getting up to speed on everything here; producing some good, and much-needed content, too. I'm so happy you're working on the Tandy stuff, etc, because we don't (or should I say, didn't) have anyone working on that, and it's an area we really should have.

You only need to add a Wikipedia tag if you actually copy text to here; just using it for research doesn't count. Jnc (talk) 20:42, 22 May 2023 (CEST)