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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2021

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12:28, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for helping in clarifying the Wikipublisher.com company

Hi Colinfine, I appreciate the time you took to explaining this situation to me. Unfortunately, I have paid them $800 to write my profile and submit for my company/brand. But, we are in the drafting stage at the moment. So, the article has not been submitted yet to Wikipedia. What should I do? I would like to get a page for my company submitted and approved and of course do it the correct way.

Pc0803 (talk) 03:53, 9 July 2021 (UTC) PC0803

Hello, Pc0803. I'm very sorry that you have been scammed by incompetent thieves. As for what you can do: I'm afraid I can only point you at the advice in WP:SCAM. Unfortunately, the scam-merchants depend on general ignorance of what Wikipedia is and what it's for: they succeed only because so many people have the totally wrong notion that Wikipedia has something to do with promotion. It does not. If your company meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then we could have an article about your company. As I indicated at the teahouse, it would not be a profile, but an encyclopaedia article based on what independent sources say about your company: it would not at all be a place for you to tell the world what you want to say about the company. And if you do not meet the criteria, then no article on it would be accepted however it was written. Sorry, again. --ColinFine (talk) 11:39, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Justin Barbour

While I would agree with you normally, this is not just an interview, in the traditional sense. This is a reporter doing journalism for the CBC and reporting on a notable event from the source, the guy doing it but does offer analysis and biographical information outside of the primary sense. We will have to disagree that this is not independent coverage of Barbour. There is biographical information in these sources. These CBC articles are not the definition of a primary source, according to WP:Primary sources, but is a combination of both a primary and secondary source within an independent reliable source that is this media agency. Because these sources are spread out over years they pass WP:BIO1E. I think a more in-depth look at the sources would be recommended. The YouTube source does need to be removed from the references but it would probably be okay left under external links. The only reason I am responding here is because leaving this on the Teahouse may give the wrong impression. I am both seeking education in this regard and also stating my view of the article's sources. --ARoseWolf 20:49, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Thank you! KeechB (talk) 09:35, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2021

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:33, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Need help to improve my posted Article

Dear Sir,

I would like to take your help regarding my draft article. I tried to write article / a biography of an Author. it is still in my draft.

Hello, Techprecious. It would have been helpful if you had signed your post (with ~~~~) and linked to the draft in question, rather than expecting me to go looking for this information. I'm afraid I have no knowledge or interestin Hindi literature, and hardly any knowledge of Hindi, so I can't give any specific help.

The general help I will give (which might not be welcome, but is my earnest advice) is to put aside this draft for a few months, while you make several hundred improvements to existing articles and so learn how Wikipedia works. Your question is a bit like saying "I have just started learning to build houses, and I would like your help with the house I am building". Most people would answer "I'm sorry, but you are not ready to build a house yet".

Looking at the Draft:Tarun Bhatnagar tself, I get a strong impression that most of the sources you cite are places which will be repeating what Bhatnagar or his associates have said: you should remove most of these, and most of the information which is cited to these. Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.. --ColinFine (talk) 16:07, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	You managed to come up with a good analogy to help explain how making an article works, which tends to be a rather complicated thing. It also helped me understand a bit more about how that stuff works. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 16:02, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Blaze the Wolf. It's an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and have used a few times: I think there may be an essay on the way! --ColinFine (talk) 18:11, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Repinging Blaze The Wolf -- ColinFine (talk) 18:12, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

I'd love to see the essay! Doing stuff like that helps people understand it better as they can actually visualize it. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:30, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello Sir Emmy Rey (talk) 21:17, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Emmy Rey. Have you got a question? --ColinFine (talk) 21:35, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Yea, Definitely ColinFine

I need guides on how to become a good and successful editor on Wikipedia.

Emmy Rey (talk) 21:42, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

NOTHERE

I am developing a concern about Emmy Rey. From contributions, few/no article edits. Instead back and forth between Teahouse and individual editor Talk pages, with 'Need help.' I have left a comment on her Talk page. I included a link to Help:Introduction and advice to use the tutorials. David notMD (talk) 02:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I forgot to put the link to you into my reply in the Teahouse

Hello ColinFine, Last night I lost a bit of refinement b/c of my first "edit war." The Teahouse is busy enough that multiple people could try to edit it at same time. So I did most of my composition in a plain-vanilla text editor, then pasted that into edit of the section re my idea, & did only the quick minimum of edits while in Wikipedia edit. Minor glitch.
By the way, scanning other sections of your Talk Page, I suppose this is the best way for me to make a comment like the one I'm making right now. -- Oaklandguy Oaklandguy (talk) 16:31, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, Oaklandguy. As you might guess, I look at the Teahouse and the Help desk pretty often, so it's likely I'll see comments there anyway; but yes, this is the other way to communicate. What you could do is what I did in my reply to Blaze The Wolf just above: I noticed that I'd got their username wrong, so that ping wouldn't work; so I added another line "repinging". (Pinging requires that the link to the other user and your own signature both go in at the same edit, so I couldn't do it by correcting his username in the existing message). --ColinFine (talk) 18:21, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

I got another idea, ColinFine. Eyal Press's work is a development of the concept of moral injury. So I took a quick look at the history of Wikipedia's article, "Moral injury." That history started in Sept 2013; it was approved for mainspace in May 2014, after much work; it was rated "start class" (I suppose this rating was done in 2014); it's a part of Wikiproject Psychology; it's received lots of edits since 2014. So rather than Requested Article, I should figure out how Wikiprojects work. Maybe this particular Wikiproject has something like a "requested article" -- maybe they already have something underway on Eyal Press!

PS: your comment about "repinging" just taught me the name for the practice of putting the link to the user I'm replying to: It's called "pinging" -- I didn't know that. Oaklandguy (talk) 16:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Changing the teahouse host personal information.

Hey! So I wanted to ask you if it is possible (and if so) to edit your teahouse background information. Mine is quite old, has my old username as well as no information whatsoever. For the record, the one I'd like to change is currently under my old username "Benjamin Borg"/ With thanks. _Signed,Pichemist ^(Talk) 12:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Pichemist. You can just edit WP:Teahouse/Host landing, and change the section that is about you. --ColinFine (talk) 14:55, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your time. I appreciate it! _Signed,Pichemist ^(Talk) 15:14, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2021

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21:53, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Irony

I find it kinda funny how you didn't finish your response before saving your edit so it appeared that you were telling them to remember to sign when you yourself forgot to sign. Not meaning to be rude, I just find it kind of funny. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:27, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

I know. I hit an edit conflict, copied and pasted my reply to the right place, didn't preview or check, and noticed just too late that I'd missed copying the last few characters of the message. I fixed it as quickly as I could. --ColinFine (talk) 17:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Ah ok. Your edit conflict fix caused an edit conflict when I was going to say how ironic it was how you forgot to sign while telling them to sign. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 18:38, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2021

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12:12, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Want to publish biography

Hello I am asking if anyone can publish this biography ,he has been an inspiration to many Zambians and are questioning him because no information is available on google except his social Medias please.

Names Michael klin Muyembe popular known as Klinheals taken from his name's Micheal Franklin Muyembe

Date of Birth Born on 12 August 2000 Born in Luanshya district copperbelt province

Education, Went to primary School at Twatemwa primary School where I did my form one and two certificate Examination in Kitwe Luangwa township Kitwe. Then i was selected at Wusakile Secondary School after passing the form 2 exam for my Form three to five, I then change my school after shifting from Kitwe to Mufulira and started school at Mufulira Secondary School Copperbelt province Where I did my Form four to form five in 2020. Further went to college at Northern Technical College in Ndola location Copperbelt province.

Early life He also worked as a bus conductor for a year in his 15 before he decided to go back to school due to lack of money .

Careers After his graduation he started working at a Radio Station in Mufulira at Mufken FM which was introduced to him by his friends during the year he was expecting his form five results he is also the Admin of the popular page in Zambia known as @Mwebantu where he now earns his living .

Personal life He grows up in Kitwe from Luanshya , and brought up by his both parents Chris and Mercy Muyembe ,he has four brothers and three sisters in a family of Nine.

Marital status He his single broke up with his Girlfriend Nelly Kayombo.

Award He has won two award one from School as provincial Jet club and the other from Mufken FM radio for best youth advocate.

Wealth He is wealth k70000 as he gets $400 salary a month. Zambiaeagles (talk) 21:14, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Zambiaeagles. I'm afraid that, like many people, you have a fundamental misundertanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a directory or publicity site. What you are trying to do is promotion, and is forbidden in Wikipedia. If you meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability - which means that people unconnected with you have already written about you - then there could be an article about you. If there is, then

• the article will not belong to you
• the article will not be for your benefit (you might get some benefit from it, but that will not be its purpose)
• the article will not be controlled by you, and will not necessarily say what you would like it to say
• the article should be almost entirely based on what those people unconnected with you have published about you, not on what you say or want to say.

So nothing at all of the information you have put above (and on your user page, and on your user talk page) belongs in Wikipedia, because it is not cited to a reliable published source.

I'm not sure why you approached me, but I have no interest in putting in the substantial amount of work it takes to write an article about you. I suggest you research to see if there are enough reliable independent sources about you, and if there are, try asking at WP:WikiProject Zambia and see if there is anybody there interested in working on an article about you. --ColinFine (talk) 22:21, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate your time Sir thank you, though Zambiaeagles (talk) 01:14, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Loudoun County Public Schools

Your edit was reverted. [1] Remember (talk) 18:46, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Wow that Dinosaur209 (talk) 05:53, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your Tips. Have a great Week!

Thony-Ferro (talk) 09:58, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your recent response to my query on editing someone else's draft "Killer Nashville". It was very helpful.

Hedman1 (talk) 22:07, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

You just answered a (my first ever) question about editing, and I’m not sure how or where to respond to people yet. I’ve only been here three hours, so it’s pretty terrifying. Normally I would skip a misspelling mistake on a page, but it was a term integral to the subject matter. (It was highlighted in red, with the comment “no wiki page yet/add wiki page” or something. But, there IS a wiki page for the right spelling.

So, if you saw it, would you feel it should be corrected, or ask the author, or just let it go?  (I’m sorry to bombard you with this - I just meant to thank you for responding.)

Note: It’s in the text on the “geology of Afghanistan” under the subheading “stratigraphy & geologic history.” The word appears as “anataxis” but is correctly spelled, “anatexis.” AlaskaBarb8888 (talk) 17:41, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, AlaskaBarb8888. This is an OK place to respond. Slightly better would be to reply in the existing section in the Teahouse, because that would keep the discussion in one place - if you did that, it would be desirable to ping me, so that I got a notification that you had replied (since you actually replied at my user talk page, I get the notification automatically).

Absolutely, you can correct that: as you say, it's an obvious misspelling. If somebody disagreed with you (for example, if they thought "anataxis" and "anatexis" were actually different words) then the worst that could happen is that they would revert your edit, and then you could open a discussion. See WP:BRD.

Note that I'm able to give you a clear answer because you've now been specific about the problem: you've told me the word and the article. It's almost always better to do that from the first, as it saves time in the back-and-forth. Another tip is to Wikilink the article in question: if you put [[Geology of Afghanistan]], it displays as Geology of Afghanistan, and gives me a link to that article. --ColinFine (talk) 18:26, 7 November 2021 (UTC)