User talk:Karen McAulayWelcome!Hello, Karen McAulay, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help. Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! --Ipigott (talk) 07:27, 19 November 2019 (UTC) Women in RedHi there, Karen McAulay, and welcome to Women in Red. The best way to gain experience in editing is to go through The Wikipedia Adventure. Once you feel ready to create your own articles, you should look at our Ten Simple Rules. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 07:31, 19 November 2019 (UTC) Well, I've done my Adventure, and I understood everything there, but I still don't understand how I get started. The only place I can find is to create a Draft - but I am concerned that this doesn't sound like the process as described in your Primer for Writing. Basically, I type my lady's name in the box, and she gets a red link because there's no article - but I cannot find a 5th bullet point down saying Special:Mypage/file name. I can't find any bullet points at all, only the link that eventually becomes a draft. If I do that, can I share it with someone at the project before publishing it? Or does it sit waiting until Wikipedia approves it? Oh dear, feeling more and more stupid now! Karen McAulay (talk) 15:31, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
OK, so the article is there, but I couldn't work out the What links here, and in no way do I seem to be linked to Women in Red, or the fact that November is Libraries Month - or anything else. Please could you take a look and see what needs to be done next? Sorry to dump this on you! Karen McAulay (talk) 21:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC) Here it is - I had a job tracking it down! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karen_McAulay/Elizabeth_Williams_n%C3%A9e_Lambert_(cataloguer)_1789-1875 Karen McAulay (talk) 21:35, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
Reply to MegalibrarygirlI'm sorry, if you take a look at my response to Ian Pigott, you'll see I'm having to delete my entire article. I'm really sorry, but I can't provide Wikipedia with published sources for a story that I have entirely researched an unearthed myself. So I shall be deleting it, regretfully. I'm posting it on my research network blog instead - a shame, but unavoidable. Karen McAulay (talk) 16:10, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
A bit of an impasseThanks for your very full reply. Obviously I have a lot to learn. OK, yesterday morning you advised me to do the adventure. At 15.31 I advised that I'd done it, and you told me how to make a page. You said to get back to you if it was successful, and otherwise you would make a page for me. Straight away I tried and did manage to make a page, so I got on with it, unaware that you had made me a page anyway. Then when I replied to say that I'd entered the article but was still having problem with the Wikipedia links, at that point I discovered you had made the page. That's not a problem at all - however, I am afraid I shall have to delete the entire article, because there is NO printed source giving any more information about Elizabeth Williams. I am not just the leading expert on her life and achievement - I am the only one, since every single fact and link I've provided was discovered by me. If that goes against Wikipedia's rules, then I regret that there's no alternative but for me to place the article somewhere else, because there's nothing else I can provide to make it conform with requirements. It's a shame, and I apologise for wasting your time. I really would have liked her to have had her own entry, but she just doesn't meet requirements. Please don't do anything with the text that's there until tomorrow - my husband's in hospital having an operation today, and I can't be sure when I will have copied the text. Thanks Karen McAulay (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Leaving it for nowIt's very kind of you, Susan, but I'm leaving it on the blog for now. (https://ClaimedFromStationersHall.Wordpress.com) It can't be simultaneously on the blog and on Wikipedia without plagiarising - either self-plagiarism or plagiarism by a third party. There are no further references that I could supply that would make it fit with Wikipedia's requirements of printed sources. Someone else has suggested I try to publish it in a printed source so that my article would itself become the secondary source, but again, that would lead to plagiarism, particularly since it would be the sole source of information. In addition to Hugh being in hospital, I also had major surgery a fortnight ago - I just don't have the appetite for turning it into an extended project right now. But I do appreciate your kind offer, which was very good of you.
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