User talk:Alicia M. Canto

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Hello, Alicia M. Canto! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Doug Weller (talk) 10:33, 11 July 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Another welcome

Welcome, Dr. Canto! It's a pleasure to see someone of your qualifications working on the articles here. Please drop me a line on my talk page if I can be of any assistance, e.g., with Wikipedia policies or administrative issues.Dppowell (talk) 16:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

No worries; your English is head and shoulders above my Spanish! Dppowell (talk) 16:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Roman Names

Hi -- your recent edit to Hadrian broke the links to other Wikipedia articles I'm afraid, so I've reverted them. Unless we are going to change all the related articles to remove the J, it doesn't make sense to change it just on one article. There is a Wikiproject on Classical Greece and Rome that I am sure would welcome your expertise and where this could be discussed. The discussion page is here [1]. However, Wikipedia policy (as opposed to guidelines) on names is at WP:Names and says:

Generally, article naming should prefer what the greatest number of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.This is justified by the following principle:

The names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors, and for a general audience over specialists.

Wikipedia determines the recognizability of a name by seeing what verifiable reliable sources in English call the subject.

It can take a while to get use to how Wikipedia works and I'm taking the liberty of adding a menu to the top of this page. Do also think about creating your user page with a short bit about you and your interests (you might want the menu there instead). Read up on verifiability and reliable sources (this bit is hard sometimes when you are an expert on a subject because it can be a nuisance to actually provide a citation to something you know really well). And a big welcome to Wikipedia, apologies for having to make the change I did but as I said they meant that the links were broken. If you want more advice (or to shout at me) you can either reply here or on my talk page. Doug Weller (talk) 10:35, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I also think you may well run into some other policy/guideline related problems. Please read WP:COI and WP:RS and WP:SPS. Doug Weller (talk) 08:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

-I have read again the pages that you was indicating, but I do not find to what type of problems you refer, or in what article (Corocotta or Theodosius?). Might you be more concrete of what problem/s it would treat? Thank you. --Alicia M. Canto (talk) 13:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)