User talk:LynneBarrios

I don't think that there is any magic to the classifications of articles. What I try to do is to stand back and look at the article as if I an unbeliever looking at the article for the first time and ask myself the following questions:

What are we trying to accomplish with this article? (in order to answer this question you need to click on the "What links here" button to see where readers will be coming from).
Does this article contain everything that a reader might be looking for from a Message perspective? (we really don't care if it has everything that one ever wanted to know about a subject - we just need sufficient information to illustrate the subject from a spiritual perspective or provide a link to lead the reader to another spiritual area.
Does the article look nice? (can you get public domain pictures anywhere that will help illustrate the subject or can the article be formatted better)

As a general guideline, only the first word in a heading or a page name should be capitalized unless it is a proper noun, such as a name or place. If you are looking for a good place to get involved, go to the page calledBelieveTheSign:Tasks. Near the top of this page is a category called "featured project". This project is creating an internet version of the healing line tapes using a disease by disease approach. . Jeremy Bergen 00:41, 7 February 2007 (CST)

our style manual

Tag for linking?

I have been using the tag to add visual content and was wondering if there is a tag for someone else to add links/linking? I haven't linked anything in my articles and don't what needs to be linked or how. Also, am I doing the headings correctly? LynneBarrios 19:22, 15 February 2007 (CST)

No there isn't a tag. Let me make one right now. To make a link though all you need to do is add two brackets around the word or words [[like this]] which will then automatically make the link. If there is an article that has already been created the link will be blue. If not it'll be red as in the above example. (If you want more information on linking you can find it here all though it's a lot of information... Help:Link.) At the moment when we launch we probably don't want to have any links pointing to pages that don't exists (or are still works in progress). So actually creating a lot of links right now could be premature. If they are obvious ones that we'll need to have articles created for before we launch then we can create them now though. We just don't want to get to doing it too much. You are doing headings just fine too. Great job! --JordanCP 19:43, 15 February 2007 (CST)

Sister Lynne, I've created a tag/template for the articles that have little to no links. To add it just add the tag {{Add links}} to the top of the article or section you want to place it in and it will look like this.

This article either has little to no other links to other Believe The Sign articles. You can help BelieveTheSign by adding links to other articles where appropriate. Please refer to this article's talk page, where there may be further information. If you have any questions just ask! Please remove this message once the article has been linked sufficiently.

--JordanCP 20:14, 15 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks! I added tags

Thanks for making that. I added tags all of my articles. Maybe once I know more, I can actually do the work myself. In the meantime... LynneBarrios 22:57, 15 February 2007 (CST)

Citing sources question (Harvard referencing)

Sister Lynne, Are you familiar with the Harvard referencing style? --JordanCP 15:52, 20 February 2007 (CST)

Harvard referencing

I have not used Harvard referencing system. I looked it up on the internet and it looks similar to MLA; however, I don't have my handbook, so I can't compare them. I don't think you need to have the date (2007) in the text, i.e. (Barrios, 2007, pg. 249) or "pg." for MLA. The portion in the text is just a reference to the full information on the Works cited (bibliography) page.

Also, I don't know if you remember when I showed you on www.dictionary.com how you could click on "cite this" and a box would pop up with three choices of citing, MLA, APA or Chicago Style; then all you have to do is copy and paste it since it is already formatted. I am not sure if other referencing sites have that option and/or if they include Harvard Referencing system.LynneBarrios 17:49, 20 February 2007 (CST)

Ok, understood. The only reason I asked was because it looked like Harvard was/is used some on Wikipedia and because of that it got copied over into some of our BTS documentation. Brother Jeremy did say that MLA was fine to use. So use it wherever need be. Any questions just ask. :) God bless! And thanks again for everything! --JordanCP 18:01, 20 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks for looking into that and clarifying the citing info. Now I'm probably responsible to start using it, no excuses for me now :-( LynneBarrios 19:01, 20 February 2007 (CST)