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November 2023

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  Hello, I'm Shearonink. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, but you didn't provide a complete citation of your reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 17:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Since you're a new editor, I've added a referencing help below. Shearonink (talk) 17:58, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
I think I've followed your instructions successfully. Thanks for your help. Quarkny (talk) 19:25, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Adding references can be easy

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Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

  1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
  2. Then click on "Templates".
  3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
  4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
  5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
  6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
  • Before clicking on Publish changes, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
  • And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.
7.  Click on Publish changes. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Shearonink (talk) 17:58, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

CS1 error on Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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  Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

  • A "missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 00:49, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

CS1 error on Harold Monro

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  Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Harold Monro, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

  • A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 19:04, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Ezra Pound, Ulysses, Joyce

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Hi Quarkny, welcome to Wikipedia, but you seem to be adding some unwelcome references, eg to Wikipedia itself (not reliable as anybody can add to anything here). Also you seemed to have made some prose improvement edits which inadvertently but significantly changed meaning - eg here. This is why all the reverts; please be more careful ;) If you are still unsure, feel free to welcome to chat here or on my talk - you obviously have good taste in literature :) Ceoil (talk) 00:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

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  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man into Stephen Dedalus. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your help. I'm also pruning and revising as I copy, but it is essentially copying. I'll include the necessary information in the edit summary from now on. Quarkny (talk) 16:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ulysses

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Do you have a time-frame for seriously scaling back "Interpretations"? If not, or if it might be helpful, I may do my own cuts to bring it into accord with Wikipedia policies on, for instance, neutral point of view and undo coverage. (Do note that only admins have the power to remove edits from the public history of an article, and none of the reasons for doing this apply here. Anything removed could be easily retrieved and restored with proper justification in the edit description or on the talk page.) Patrick (talk) 18:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Patrick,
Just wanted you to know that I've gone back to editing on the Ulysses page itself. I tried using the "sandbox," but I couldn't transfer the citations successfully. All were somehow nullified in the process. My first section is now "Joyce and Shakespeare." It's quite concise. I've also been working on my second section, "Joyce and Aquinas." Much harder, but I see a couple of paragraphs I can omit. Almost all the quotations can go. The "16 June 1904" sections needs trimming as well, but not as mush as the other sections. I don't want to think about "Joyce and the Eucharist" yet. That's going to be the toughest one to condense.
Best,
Frederick Quarkny (talk) 23:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Happy to see that things seem to be coming along! Cheers, Patrick (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

intro to Wikipedia for academics

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Hey Frederick, I'm happy to see you still active on the Ulysses article (even after so much frustration)! I'm working on an essay for academics interested in contributing to Wikipedia. The coverage of the humanities here is too often just dismal. Expertise is desperately needed—but there's a major culture clash that leads lots of experts to just bail. My draft is here. Any sort of feedback would be most welcome! Cheers, Patrick (talk) 21:46, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Patrick,
I'll have a look. Just give me some time.
Best, Frederick 2603:7000:9700:8D83:499F:B9B6:FB3B:B13 (talk) 23:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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