Villaida

November 2023

Hello, I'm JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333. I noticed that you recently made an edit to 126th Coastal Defence Brigade in which your edit summary did not appear to describe the change you made. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 (talk) 01:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, good to know. I'll keep that in mind for future edits. Villaida (talk) 21:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

January 2024

Hi Villaida! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 18:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah. Good to know.

Thank you for telling me. Villaida (talk) 18:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Fellowship of Baptist Churches in South Africa moved to draftspace

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Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you. Villaida (talk) 22:10, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey

I noticed you edited some health-related articles recently; thanks for that. A bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. You're welcome to join us if that's an area of editing that interests you. It's a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the group's page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello some time. There are other groups for other subject areas. You can usually find them listed at the top of the talk page on your favorite articles. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Categories

Hi, try not to be too general when categorizing articles. For example, don’t put Football Club Les Aigles du Congo in Category:Football and Category:Kinshasa but Category:Football clubs in Kinshasa. Instead of using your best guess to categorize uncategorized articles, try to find similar related articles to see how they are categorized. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 08:33, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Ok.

Thank you for telling me. Villaida (talk) 13:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Congratulations! 14 novembre (talk) 20:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you?

(I don't know how I got it but good for me!) Villaida (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Villaida You got it thanks to your helpful contributions! Kind regards 14 novembre (talk) 🇮🇹 17:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Uncategorized articles

Hi Villaida. I see that you're quite active at Category:Uncategorized from March 2024‎‎ (and similar categories). Thanks for that: nobody could take on that task alone. That being said, I'm concerned by some of your categorizations. The first thing I've noticed, is that you often categorize articles using container categories or really high-level categories. This doesn't really solve the categorization problem, it just punts the problem to whoever cleans up the high-level categories. For instance, you recently categorized Budderside in Category:Music and Category:Hard rock. Both are container categories so they shouldn't include individual articles besides the main articles such as music, Index of music articles and hard rock. I've re-categorized it in Category:Hard rock musical groups from California and Category:Musical groups from Los Angeles. This is much more precise and thus more useful to the reader. (I wanted to add a category of the form Category:Musical groups established in XXXX but there's conflicting information on the article so I left it out for now). My advice for this problem is to always check that the category you've just attributed to an article doesn't contain a more precise subcategory. My second concern about your categorization work is somewhat unrelated. Once an article leaves the backlog of uncategorized articles, it's relatively rare that editors add categories since many are unfamiliar with the existing categories. So when we do categorize an article for the first time, we should make sure that it's categorized in as many relevant categories as possible. For instance, any biography should at the very least be in a year of birth cat, a year of death cat (or the living people cat), an occupation cat, a nationality cat but frequently, you can add things like alma mater cats, position cats (for sportspeople), teams played for cats (for sportspeople), instrument played (for musicians), year of establishment/disestablishments (for organizations) and so on. To figure this out, you can always look at the categories that have been assigned to similar articles. Also, it is sometimes hard to categorize an article because we're unfamiliar with the subject. My advice in this case is to let someone else handle that article. There are multiple people working on this backlog with different areas of competence. Someone will get to it eventually. Sorry for the wall of text. I'm humble enough to avoid saying "follow my lead" but if you put Category:Uncategorized from March 2024 (or any monthly category) you can see on your watchlist who is actively working on the backlog and you can check out their work (editors like Wikishovel, Lenticel, WereSpielChequers among many others). Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying-sometimes categorizing pages can get *slightly* confusing.

The wall of text is okay- I think it might have helped me understand the entire categorizing process better. I'm willing to try to help out with possible repair for the possible annoyance I might have created for anybody else, or possibly not categorize for a while so I don't make it worse.

I usually put year of birth/year of death, along with occupations and whatever year various companies were established as categories, and if I have absolutely no idea what an article is about I will feel more inclined to leave it alone. (Also I don't touch the templates because I don't understand how to categorize those which is probably wise.)

Thank you again for the advice, and I will do my best to catch myself in the future so I don't end up doing it again. Villaida (talk) 21:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Well it certainly wasn't my intention to discourage you from working on that backlog. I just think there are simple ways of improving your categorization work and I hope you stick around with this advice in mind. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 22:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Electrolyte. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:13, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Oops! I did not realize that I did that by mistake, so my bad. Thank you for telling me.

I will do my best to fix the problem as soon as I get around to it. If it has not already happened, I'm considering replacing whichever source that was circular with the "citation needed" template, or reversing my edit so then it doesn't get in the way of others (and so that a person who finds a good source can stick it in). Then, I can try to find a different source that is not circular to replace it.

Thank you again-- you and other Wikipedia editors are great at helping out and explaining all sorts of stuff.

Enjoy your day or night (whichever qualifies). Villaida (talk) 15:38, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Again here, the source clearly identifies itself as copies of Wikipedia articles. You even added "Wikipedia" as the author. Sam Kuru (talk) 18:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

My apologies. Villaida (talk) 12:47, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Tagging when there is a URL

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that your recent edit here wasn't the best practice. Template:Unreferenced shouldn't be used if there is any URL at all on the page, including in the ==External links== section. We tend to think of sources as only the things that are formatted to look like little blue clicky numbers (), but the goal for that template is to identify articles with absolutely nothing – no URLs, no list of books, absolutely no sources mentioned anywhere at all. This is because, especially for new contributors, people struggle to figure out the formatting, and what we need is something on the page. As the top of Wikipedia:Citing sources says, as long as they get something on the page, we can clean up the formatting later. {{no footnotes}} is for URLs, and I like to add {{third party}} when the URL is only to a website related to the subject. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:25, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Good to know. Villaida (talk) 17:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Also is there a help page or whatnot that explains template usage? Villaida (talk) 18:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I doubt it. Usually, you want to look on each template's documentation page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for the tip. Villaida (talk) 21:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

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Yum.

Thanks!

(happily consumes)

That was good. Villaida (talk) 15:21, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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Inappropriate references

I recently checked four of your edits that included the edit summary "‎sourced" or "sourced statements". All four edits were seriously problematic: either adding sources that have none of the hallmarks of reliability, or adding references at the end of sentences that do not support the content of the sentence. Edits like this result in major decreases in the quality of Wikipedia. I see that just one month ago you were having other glaring problems with choosing appropriate sources. If you cannot determine if sources are of adequate quality or if they support the content to which they're attached, you should absolutely not be adding them anywhere -- this kind of subtle damage is very difficult for competent editors to fix. What process are you using to identify sources, and how many edits adding sources have you used following this process? --JBL (talk) 18:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I apologize for causing frustration among other editors (and the late reply), and I realize that I likely did not put in as much effort as I should have to find reliable sources as I probably should have for these four edits. I am willing to not source articles, or to step back from doing edits if needed for a period of time if you feel like that would be a good idea.

I normally try to google whatever I'm sourcing, but that works okay, but it does not work as well as I originally thought it would. I am not sure about the number - recently I've had a lot of stuff stored in my head, so it's been hard to keep track of everything.

Again, I'm sorry, and I apologize for making a mistake that I should have been more aware about. Villaida (talk) 21:31, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Tim Walz

I know nothing about Wikipedia other than I search a few things. Perhaps someone can make a correction. The bio page for Tim Walz shows he was he was a Command Sergeant Major. Walz failed to complete the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy. He quit before completion. He was only a Command Sergeant Major CONDITIONALLY and, only for a few months. He was bumped back down to Master Sergeant when he quit the reserves 2 years and 4+ months before his enlistment was up. There are plenty of ways for you to verify this but the easiest might be to search the Minnesota newspaper The West Central Tribune. On November 2, 2018 Command Sergeant Majors Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr authored "The Truth About Tim Walz." In fact, that should be listed in references. 50.53.93.249 (talk) 21:59, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Longstone Primary School

Hello, Villaida

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username DoubleGrazing, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've proposed an article that you started, Longstone Primary School, for deletion because it meets one or more of our deletion criteria, and I don't think that it is suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The particular issue can be found in the notice that is now visible at the top of the article.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

@DoubleGrazing: I don't mind if it gets deleted (I don't think I created it in the first place), and it didn't seem like there was a lot of info about it on the internet anyways.

Villaida (talk) 15:03, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. The PROD will take a week (unless someone dePRODs it earlier), so maybe someone will find and add sources. If not, it'll probably turn into a redirect to the town's article. Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

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Please do not categorize WP:PROJCATS in the content space categories, as done here and here. Best, CMD (talk) 03:43, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Noted. Villaida (talk) 23:12, 20 November 2024 (UTC)