User:Maproom/archive 14

January

Your draft article, Draft:Pentangle puzzles

Hello, Maproom. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Pentangle puzzles".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:34, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Your contributions to Clara Egger's english page

Draft:Clara_Egger Thank you Maproom for your help to improve this translation article.
I would prefer the name to be shown entirely (Clara Egger) rather than just the surname (Egger), though. For the time being, I'll just let you choose, as you are much more experienced than me on en.wikipedia.org :-) But if you want to know my preference, it is with Mrs Egger's full name (Clara Egger). Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by CitoyenSolidaire (talk • contribs) 14:43, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

CitoyenSolidaire, please see MOS:SURNAME.   Maproom (talk) 15:38, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@Maproom Got it! Thanks CitoyenSolidaire (talk) 16:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

February

Features for new users coming soon (and mentors, like you, wanted!)

Hello. As you're currently listed as a host at the Teahouse, I wanted to make sure you're aware of the imminent rollout of new Growth Team Features which every new account will be getting by default. Each users will soon see a new 'Homepage' tab next to their User page. It contains two main elements which might impact on your involvement - and you'd be welcome to get involved and help out directly with one of them.

• Firstly, they will be offered a range of 'suggested edits', and encouraged to make simple improvements to pages that interest them. (Being aware of this feature would be helpful for all Teahouse hosts if you're likely to offer advice on tasks for them to start out doing.)
• There's also a 'Your impact' box to show them how many people have seen the pages they've just edited.
• Finally, each new user is randomly assigned a 'mentor' from a list of friendly, experienced editors, like yourself. If they get stuck, they can ask a question directly to them via a Your mentor box, and hopefully get a swift, friendly answer from that mentor. Currently, this feature is given to 2% of new users, but it's set to increase to around 10% in the very near future.

To spread the load on our current list of around 65 mentors, I'm reaching out to ask if you'd like to help out and sign up as one? The workload is relatively small; User Panini! reports receiving four questions a month, on average, all of which were simple ones of the type we already get at the Teahouse, whilst I've had just one in the last 3 weeks. To view a list of every question asked of all mentors over the last 14 days, click here.

If becoming a mentor and being available to help new users on their first few days here interests you - just as you already do at the Teahouse - then please consider signing up at Growth Team features/Mentor list. Existing users can already 'opt-in' to seeing the Newcomer Homepage features via their Preferences.

Thank you! Nick Moyes (talk) 10:53, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

May

Speedy deletion nomination of John Houston McIntosh

A tag has been placed on John Houston McIntosh requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 19:20, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Outline around map object area

Hi, I advised an editor at the helpdesk to ask a question at Wikiproject Maps, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Outline around map object area, but the page seems a bit quiet. I have noticed that you are interested in maps so I wonder if you could help or suggest a better venue for the question. TSventon (talk) 11:20, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi TSventon, you could also try Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop. I can't help myself, I know nothing about Wikidata. Maproom (talk) 14:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

June

editing

can anyone please help me about editing article s am still struggling please help P.V.Mkhaliphi (talk) 13:12, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi, P.V.Mkhaliphi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see from your list of contributions that you have not yet made any edit to a WIkipedia article. I get the impression from your contributions that you have come here to chat, and ask questions, rather than help to improve Wikipedia. Maybe you have mistaken Wikipedia for a social media platform? Many people make that mistake.

If there is an edit you'd like to make, please explain here, and I'll try to help you. Maproom (talk) 15:04, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

July

accessing WMF Wikipedia library tools

In your comment on Teahouse of 13:04, 4 July 2022, you observed the challenge of finding useful access through WMF Wikipedia library.

I agree, when I've tried to use this facility, I never seem to get anything useful. I keep thinking it's like some kind of teaser service they're offering, where they figure you may actually pay for the service if you find something you just have to have.

One exception is jstor. For most jstor stuff that isn't free, I can access it by modifying the url. See examples at User:Fabrickator/reference notes#Broude and Greene (compare one-page preview links with "complete" links).

In my mind, this is still a bit of a secret handshake ... I figured it out, but there was no explicit instruction on how to do this. So please let me know if it's good for you or if I'm living in some secret corner of Wikispace that allows this, while other Wikiusers must employ different magic. And please keep me on your shortlist of people with whom you share such secret incantations. Fabrickator (talk) 00:30, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

August

I missed a trick

Armored Mud Ball, Guadalupe Mts. Nat. Park, March 2015

I've just noticed this question from you in a post about hiring an editor. (Wish I'd seen it before getting involved in this thread, as I might have been able to make some cash! )

Anyway, I've just published a better page on Armored mud balls (which is now heading for DYK) but it contains an image which sort of answers your question. Just thought you might like to know. Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

September

Sukavich Rangsitpol

I've reverted the article because there was unexplained removal of the awards and honors section.
Editors who disagree on article content are expected to discuss their arguments on the article talk page here: Talk:Sukavich Rangsitpol. It's done there so that all of the discussion points are in one place rather than scattered across the talk pages of three or more editors. Edit summaries are not a substitute for talk page discussion. Continued reversions without discussion is considered Edit warring: constantly changing an article back to what you think it should be. Please discuss the changes and attempt to reach a consensus with other editors. Blue Riband► 01:46, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Blue Riband, you didn't revert my edits, they're still in place, so you had no need to notify me. I cannot read Thai, and will not become involved in the ongoing edit war. Maproom (talk) 07:55, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

I contacted all of the most recent editors and encouraged them to discuss this on the article talk page, which is the way to handle content disagreements. Blue Riband► 12:50, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

October

WWAB

Hi Maproom. I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your essay WP:WWAB and will link to it often when answering at the Tearoom. I wanted to do so the other day but couldn't find it as I couldn't remember the shortcut! I don't know if there's a rule for creating redirects to essays but the one I tried and would have hoped for is WP:BACKWARDS (or WP:BACKWARD). If you think that is sensible, please create it. Thanks. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:23, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mike Turnbull, and thank you for the compliments. Also, for the suggestion. I've added the redirect WP:BACKWARD. (The essay used to use the forms "backwards" and "forwards", but the Ss were removed by another editor. I assume that the S-less forms are more usual in America, and therefore in general. Maproom (talk) 21:40, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not sure we Brits should worship at the shrine of Americanisms but the singular form is fine and much easier for me to recall than WWAB. As an aside, to my mind someone incompetent could be said to be "backward", whereas "backwards" merely suggests "in reverse". Mike Turnbull (talk) 22:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

November

Your draft article, Draft:Pentangle puzzles

Hello, Maproom. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Pentangle puzzles".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:51, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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Adam Sherrill

The reality is that none of the paragraph was sourced, and I should have just used the source for what it said. I felt like I'd be cluttering up the article.

However, I came up with another solution. See if you think that works.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:38, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee: the claim that his wife's name is unknown except that it was certainly not Margarette Rudisil, is so weird that it requires explanation. How could we know that, and nothing else, about her name? You have now added two more names, and say that there is no evidence that either was the name of his wife. That does nothing to solve the problem. Where are you getting these names from? I assume you aren't just inventing them at random. An explanation is needed. Maproom (talk) 21:55, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I was asking you if I did the right thing to make sure only the information in the source I used was shown to be from that source.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:01, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

December

Yield Curve article

Greetings! With respect to your edit and comment that there was no need to mention Fabozzi since he's already named in the citation, I was following the guideline stated in Wikipedia:Plagiarism: "In addition to an inline citation, in-text attribution is usually required when quoting or closely paraphrasing source material (for example: "John Smith wrote that the building looked spectacular," or "According to Smith (2012) ...")." I have no desire to engage in a dispute over this, but in the spirit of good fellowship I thought I'd share this aspect of Wikipedia policy with you. I myself discovered it only recently. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 14:31, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanation. That makes sense. How would you feel if I rewrote that sentence to avoid both Fabozzi's name and the close paraphrasing? It seems to me odd to attribute to Fabrizio something which has long been obvious to bond and debt traders. Maproom (talk) 17:25, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

That works for me. @BuzzWeiser196

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