User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/2020/August

Revdel

I edited your last post to COIN. You should track down an admin to revdel that for obvious reasons. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I asked an admin/buro about this via email before posting at COIN and there was no mention of this being a case of outing. The account name is the same as the name of the person on the website, and in such cases it might not be as clearly a case of OUTING per Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and outing as some others. However, since you've got serious concerns, I will email OVERSIGHT volunteer about it and ask them to look at the diff and revedel it if necessary. If they decide not to do so, I won't re-add the information, but I cannot remove it from the page's history. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:17, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Opinion on image requested at DYK

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Prep_3_image:_UNESCO_World_Heritage_Sites. I hope you can offer insight there. Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 18:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I'll try and take a look at this later. Thank you for the notification. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:30, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Everett McCorvey draft

Hi .... you looked at my Everett McCorveydraft on Everett McCorvey in July and were very helpful. I made significant revisions, added references, deleted some content and added a head shot then submitted it for re-review. I haven't heard anything - which may be just the way things work - but wondered if there is some way to tell if anyone is looking at it. I appreciate any help...I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and get lost sometimes. Jacalyn Carfagno (talk) 19:48, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jacalyn Carfagno. It seems you've re-submitted Draft:Everett McCorvey to WP:AFC for another review. I don't believe there's any way to know who's looking at any Wikipedia page at any given time; it's possible to see who edits a page, but I think that's the best you can do. Sometimes an editor might add a template like {{In use}} or {{Under construction}} to an article they intend to work on much in the same way a road construction crew might put down a similar sign on a stretch of road it intends to be working on; the idea is to let other editors know that someone is currently trying to work on the article in an attempt to avoid any edit conflicts between multiple editors working on the same article at the same time. There's something kind of similar to that for drafts called {{AFC submission/reviewing}} that an AFC reviewer might use when they're reviewing a draft, but I'm not sure if all AFC reviewers do such a thing and they usually only do so when they're actually reviewing the draft.

So, it appears that the draft is still waiting to be reviewed, which means the only thing I can suggest is to be patient and wait for a reviewer to get to it. You can continue to work on improving it if you want. Some minor things I noticed that you can clean up are related to MOS:SECTIONCAPS, WP:REFSPACE and MOS:LQ, but these shouldn't affect whether the draft is ultimately approved. There's still lots of unsourced content (everything in the "Recordings" section and subsequent sections is unsourced), still a bit of WP:Namechecking and WP:NOTEVERYTHING (the second paragraph in the "Teaching" section and the third paragraph of the "ASE" section seems to have very little encyclopedic value to the reader) and some WP:PUFFERY throughout the article, but the draft does look more like a Wikipedia article should look, at least way more than the first version of it you submitted that was declined. You also shouldn't add WikiProject banner templates to articles; they are intended for article talk pages.

One last thing is that the photo you added has a problem with it's syntax. You seem to be wanting to add File:McCorvey Headshot 2020 (William Arnold Photography) (1).jpg and it looks like you tried to do so twice, but got the name wrong each time. File's will only display properly when they are formatted properly; if you get even a single character of the name wrong, the software will try to add the wrong file to the article. If the file name is visible as a red link in the article, then that's the software's way of telling you that it cannot find a file page with that name. My suggestion to you would be to remove the two file links you add to the draft (you shouldn't try to add a file to the very top of the draft anyway per WP:ORDER) and then try an re-add the link to the file right above the first sentence of the MOS:LEAD. You might also want to consider using an WP:INFOBOX if you can find one that might work for this type of article and that isn't simply just a photo and a name. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:36, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you...this is very helpful! Jacalyn Carfagno (talk) 22:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Your message

Hi Marchjuly, Thanks again. I appreciate very much your help. Again: I would make some remarls into the talk page. not in the article. Beautiful Bavaria (talk) 15:58, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying this. Others also seem to have answered your Teahouse question and perhaps one of those answers will help. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:34, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Modification Request

Alvinkallicharran7 (talk) 23:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC) Hi, I am representative of the article Alvin Kallicharran, Trying to help with the putting more valid and current information Under his personal information - Remove relations Replace with his website. (https://alvinkallicharran.com/ ) which is currently Active

These are some of the source links https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2019/mar/27/chennai-batsmans-success-story-in-thirteen-chapters-1956324.html http://www.saibaba.ws/articles/whentheyplayed.htm https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2018/12/31/gcb-extends-warmest-felicitations-to-batting-maestro-alvin-kallicharran/ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/alvin-kallicharran-signs-up-to-join-the-london-ambassadors-at-olympics-6529662.html

Please let us know How Can we do this Thanks Alvinkallicharran7 (talk) 23:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Alvinkallicharran7. Please read WP:COIADVICE and WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement for more details, but basically the thing for you to do would be to propose the changes you want to make at Talk:Alvin Kallicharran using edit requests to give other uninvolved editors a chance to assess the changes you want to make to determine whether they are in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. You should try and make you requests as specific and as easily to understand as possible. If you try to request too many things or request things that can be too broadly construed (e.g. putting more valid and current information Under his personal information), then it may be hard for those editors answering your request to figure out exactly what things you want changed. In addition, any changes you propose (particularly things which might fall under WP:BLPSOURCES) should be support by a link or information for reliable sources that can be used to verify the content. Requests for changes that just state "Change A to B" but do provide any way to verify the change are almost always declined. If you've got any more questions about this, you can ask for help at WP:COIN or WP:BLPN. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

The east wall of Tragic Prelude

I'm asking you to make an exception here. It's important and there isn't a better option that I see. The problem is not the Commons image, it's the external link to the picture of the east wall.

1. There is no public domain image showing the entire mural. I'm sure of that.
2. You can't discuss a famous, influential work of art, one that there's a whole book about, and require readers to find a link to one wall of it in an external link at the end. It's much more important than an external link.

Please reconsider. deisenbe (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

The best place to discuss this is at Talk:Tragic Prelude#Embedded links, not here on my user talk page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

My Tools

Hi Marchjuly. I imagine you're probably aware that a lot of the day-to-day actions I perform on Wikipedia are heavily tool-assisted. Folks have been asking how I do it for years now, and I thought it's about time I shared more of the magic. I have started porting my tools over to WMF toolforge, and there are several which I think may be helpful in your workflows:

• toolforge:ftools/enwp/ffd2a.html - quickly mass generate {{subst:Ffd2a}} entries
• toolforge:ftools/global/category-members.html - list all members of a category in plain text
• toolforge:ftools/global/template-transclusions.html - list all the transclusions of a template in plain text
• toolforge:ftools/global/user-uploads.html - list all of a user's uploads in plain text
• toolforge:ftools/global/wikilinks-from-list.html - takes a list of plain text titles and quickly converts them into wikilnks

A complete list of tools I've ported so far is available at toolforge:ftools. If you have any suggestions/feedback, please let me know! Best, FASTILY 07:40, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Pinging file namespace regulars (@Explicit, @The Squirrel Conspiracy, @Wikiacc, @Whpq, @Jo-Jo Eumerus) who may also be interested. Definitely not a comprehensive list, feel free to tag anyone I've missed/forgotten. -FASTILY 07:44, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I'm not really good with tools though, never have and probably never will be, which is probably a bit strange since I've been told that I'm quite the tool by various people over the years. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:56, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Big thanks! It's a real pain manually bundling files for deletion. This will help immensely. -- Whpq (talk) 11:54, 25 August 2020 (UTC)