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before the question. Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 22:53, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Janvermont! I'm Timtrent. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. Fiddle Faddle 22:51, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Jan,
Something is not working right with the email. I didn't get one from you. I emailed you again, but didn't get the copy I sent myself. And I tried emailing myself and that didn't work.
I am getting back to working on your article. I will have to remove things that I can't find a reference for at this point. But it will be there in the article history. StarryGrandma (talk) 15:47, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi StarryGrandma, Maybe this is the place I should respond to this message, not as I did on your talk page yesterday. Thank you for reaching me and for continuing to edit. I understand and appreciate the maintenance of the development history. JanJanvermont (talk) 23:33, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
I have begun to work on the Textile Graphics section and have just ordered a copy of your book Textile Graphics/Computer Aided from Amazon. (It's amazing what is available on Amazon.) I'm taking out material but we can put it back in once there are references. From the brief glimpse of the text of your book that I could see on Google Books, it looks like you talked about the development of the project. That will make a very good reference.
I'd like to continue our discussion on the talk page of your Draft article. It is available either by going to your article at Draft:Janice (Jan) Richmond Lourie and clicking on the Talk tab, or going directly to Draft talk:Janice (Jan) Richmond Lourie. I have copied our previous discussions there from my talk page. I am going to ask you some questions there. I am learning a lot about the early history of computer graphics. StarryGrandma (talk) 02:10, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Janvermont,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged All communications between StarryGrandma and Jan lourie re original AFC submission for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Imaginatorium (talk) 14:41, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I saw your question at the Teahouse about some subpages to make notes and such. If you want to see how some such subpages are used, you can have a look at my user page where my subpages are listed. You can have a similar links to pages that you need, on your page if you like. Just name them properly and follow the other advice you got at the Teahouse. Best, w.carter-Talk 15:54, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to make sure you knew I replied to your question on my talk page. Feel free to reply back there if things still aren't clear. Happy Editing. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 18:13, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
I believe I'm supposed to wait till you begin speaking here and continuing what Phil began. I'm ready! JanJanvermont (talk) 19:11, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello again Janvermont, I'm continuing the conversation you started at Philg88's talk page.
First of all I hope that you have read the page that Philg88 linked to for you. Let's start with that. It is a very common misconception, that many new users make, that since anyone can edit, anyone could also be able to create a page about themselves. That is not the case. The Wikipedia only accepts articles about persons whose notability can be documented by reliable sources, and since it is very hard to write objectively about yourself, even notable persons are strongly discourage to create articles about themselves. I'm sure you did not know all this when you started to create the article and you acted in good faith. But now that you've declared that the article is about yourself and you know that there are rules regarding this, you should just back away from it. Do not do any further editing on it and do not try to edit any other articles to link to it. This is the general advice given to people in your situation. Some people put a notice about a conflict of interest on their user page, but since I assume that you want to continue to edit and contribute with other articles, while at the same time remaining a bit anonymous, I don't think you should do that. Just stay away from the article. This is also mentioned on the linked page. I will have a look at the article and see what things might have to be removed or altered, to make it as neutral as possible. I'm sorry to say, that at the moment all this rules out the use of the book you mentioned previously.
As for your question about orphans and links. Of course it is best if as many articles as possible are linked with each other, but sometimes there will be articles that become orphans, there are quite a lot of them, so not so terrible. One link is better than none. :) When an article is created, editors try to find ways to link it with other articles. The easiest way to do this is to click on the links in the article and see if something is mentioned on those pages that might be "linkable". I recently helped another editor with the article about music group Dolchamar were links to the article had to be found. I clicked on several of the links and found that the group was mentioned but not linked in several other articles. So it was an easy task to just link them. In this case I think that Philg88 looked at the linked pages to see if he could find a similar mentioning. Since none were found he made the choice to add the name to the alumni of the school.
Another way to go hunting for other articles that may be relevant is to just enter the name in the usual searchbox, but instead of clicking on the article that appears as a suggestion you click below at the "containing...". Then you get articles where the name appears even if it is not linked, and you can go and add the links.
Oh, and when you sign your posts, the four ~~~~ is quite enough, if you add your name as well it will sort of be double-signed. I will also leave a little guide for you here on how to get in touch with other editors. Please don't hesitate to ask here or at my talk page All the best for now, w.carter-Talk 19:34, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
When someone is posting on your talk page you get an automatic notification. That notification is a red square followed by a long yellow box (for most browsers and settings). In all other cases you have to alert the other editor in some way, either by "ping" or by mentioning them in a link. This will result in a just the red box notification on that users pages. So even if you respond on your talk page you still have to alert the editor you are addressing. If you want to get hold of me you write ((ping|W.carter)) resulting in @W.carter: or [[User:W.carter|W.carter]] resulting in W.carter and sign with the four "squiggles" ~~~~ at the end and hit "Save". There are some more, but these are the basics. And when you ask something on someone's talk page, you also create a new section so your question don't get entangled in some other conversation. If you are having a conversation with another user on some page, it is also customary to add that page to your Watchlist in case someone in the discussion forgets to alert.
The policy is to leave an answer on the same page as the question, keep the conversation intact unless there is some reason for moving it elsewhere. Like complicated questions at the Teahouse can be continued on the appropriate talk page. - w.carter-Talk 19:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello again! I have been at Janice Lourie and fixed up some of the formatting. The text was just fine, so none of that is touched, but there were a lot of extra "spacing" and redundant parameters that should preferably not be in in-line citations. It just looks as if I have "removed" a lot, but that was just extra padding. The article is now "slim lined". I also added an infobox, that is what most articles have, fixed the redirects and disambiguation links. I was also at the Commons and fixed up a category as a subcategory of "Digital photography" for the pictures. That allows for a category tag at the article. You can see it at the bottom of the article. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 00:44, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate everything you have done. You are a hero to me.Janvermont (talk) 13:37, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Janice (Jan) Richmond Lourie, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
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@Jmabel: the editor, w.carter, who helped in the final stages, taking over after Starry Grandma, is on a leave now and so I am
including her initial statements. She suggested that we leave it as is and of course I agreed. I haven't touched it in six years so it is
as was approved. Please tell me if you think it will leave my Wikipedia page as is.
Here is our dialogue
I have literally no idea why any of the above is on my user talk page. - Jmabel | Talk 00:32, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Janvermont here trying to find the best way to clear the cloud on my Wikipedia page. I tried to communicate with the editor who successfully handled this problem six years ago, w.carter, but she is now on a form of leave, so I am copying here our dialogue in which we acknowledged my participation in the preparation of the AFC and also the success of it as an Article and suggested I do not further edit it. I haven't been near it in six years, so it is in the condition she verified and approved including all the detailed work done by the editor Starry Grandma. (If the little image is a problem, please remove it.)
Here is our dialogue
Welcome back and we will see what we can do about references. My late husband was dealing with medical issues when we last talked and my presence here has been intermittant. Our previous conversations on my talk page are in my archive at User talk:StarryGrandma/Archive 3. I have a copy of Textile Graphics / Computer-Aided Design. (It is a former university library copy and has an 80-column IBM inventory card in the back pocket.)
I have been rereading the article. I now have more experience with biographies of scientists and engineers. I am going to pare the article down to its basics, then we can add material back as we find sources. These seem to be some of the key points:
Let me know if this is correct. StarryGrandma (talk) 01:08, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Everything you say is correct. I raise my hand and say ready and willing. Thank you for giving me my best 90th birthday present. Jan Janvermont (talk) 13:50, 16 July 2020 (UTC)