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As far as I know, the only way to call attention to a color-confusing map is to go to WP:GL or ask someone privately on a user talk page; I've never done anything else. I see nothing at Commons:Category:Image cleanup templates that mentions color. Meanwhile, did you see my note at WP:GL? I'm not sure what image I should be evaluating. Nyttend (talk) 19:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
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Per the WP:MEDMOS external links typically go after the reference section. Thus moved back some of the changes in this edit Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:54, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, where are you getting the information from for the cladogram that you added at a number of pages, including Citrus gracilis? I can't see it at the cited source. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:36, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Indeed, cladistic reconstruction of hybrid networks has been a disaster area for many years, and requires a huge research investment. A couple of rules of thumb that I think would be appropriate are (1) that work on the species that are outside that knot of human-influenced hybrids could be useful (as the Acta Horticulturae article seems to be) and (2) that recent work may well be sorting out problems demonstrated by the older work. Perhaps eventually there'll be a review article that sorts it all out. I'm glad you are working on the wikipedia Citrus articles because they have been very bad indeed. P.S.: I sent you email. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:42, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello HLHJ. On my talk page, you said: "Quick query about this edit; do you think that the term is incorrect? I got the information from the neera article, which I linked to, assuming that anyone interested would follow it. Thank you for using the term "good-faith" in your revert, it made it sting a bit less. Please, if you think an edit is useful but unsourced, could you source it rather than deleting it? It's so much less emotionally unpleasant for editors, and helps keep us writing. Here is a source which you could insert."
Neera is the sweet, oyster white-coloured sap tapped from the immature inflorescence of coconut.
Coconut sugar is made from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm tree.
I don't think we should use that source. The article is so poorly written that one might conclude it was never reviewed by an editor who speaks English. A quality editor and journal staff would not have allowed that article to be published. The journal has a low impact factor, 1.4, that is below the threshold for a WP reliable source. It's not a good source to provide to the public as evidence. Is it really important that the article says "coconut sugar is made from neera"? The current article description about sap being boiled into the toddy seems fine with me, although I'd like to see a better manufacturing source. --Zefr (talk) 04:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
I've looked and found no WP:RS sources useable to state that purported health effects of coconut sugar have been scientifically evaluated. WP:SPAM sources like Dr. Oz or Mercola have to be kept off of WP. Further, sources you introduced, like this and this, have no place in a trusted encyclopedia because there is probability they will be misinterpreted as fact by non-scientific users. You said: "Enough sources have written about the coconut-sugar health fad to establish notability." I would say that the topic is not notable scientifically, but has been reported as a consumer trend, such as here. I think the best evidence that coconut sugar is a health hoax is the absence of evidence in reliable sources, meaning there's nothing to say about it other than "Although coconut sugar has increased consumer use as of 2017,<ref> there is no evidence it provides any nutritional or health benefits." --Zefr (talk) 16:28, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, 70.67.222.124. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was sort of worried that there were too many black-and-white pictures. I'll be adding a few more soon. There are some definitely creepy uses of edit records, but there is no way your charming message falls in that category. Thank you very much for taking the trouble to write it, it made me happy. HLHJ (talk) 02:44, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi HLHJ, CheChe here. I noticed that you recently added a 'clarification needed' tag to part of Group testing. I want to make sure the article is clear, but I'm having trouble seeing what might be ambiguous (or confusing) about that particular sentence. I appreciate that's probably just because I wrote it in the first place, so I'd like to ask if you could explain what the trouble you're having is? It would really help. Thanks, ♫CheChe♫ talk 21:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC).
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Thank you for the advice, Baffle gab1978. I'm sorry if I edit-conflicted you. I should have read up on the system first. HLHJ (talk) 04:54, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for telling me, QuackGuru. I had seen the odd notice at the top of a page, but I'd never looked up what "discretionary sanctions" meant before. I've now read up on it. I haven't actually read every Wikipedia policy, though... Please let me know of any specific things in my editing that might be problematic. I realize that the topic is controversial, I want to edit it well, and I think a range of viewpoints is necessary to editing it well. If I'm out-of-line, I'll do my best to fix, and if I'm out-of-line because I am ignorant, or might become so, I really appreciate it when my fellow editors fix that.
Side note: tree shaping is controversial? Not, off hand, something I would have guessed... HLHJ (talk) 03:39, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
You restored this content and made slight changes, but the content contains off-topic content, unreliable sources, and failed verification content. Do you agree you will stop adding or restoring off-topic content, unreliable sources, and failed verification content? QuackGuru (talk) 15:21, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Replies on article talk page. HLHJ (talk) 05:53, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
This article is littered with off-topic content and unreliable sources and failed verification content. For example, the article contains content about safety, addictiveness, harm to bystanders, use by non-smokers, stress, dieting, cost, and smoking cessation. Those are not about marketing. There is also a lot of unsourced content. The article is called "Marketing of e-cigarettes" but it is about e-cigarettes in general which cover different topics. That is what the main page is for. That is by definition a WP:CONTENTFORK. You have not cleaned up the content fork. QuackGuru (talk) 16:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
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QuackGuru, I've been reverting edits by IPs that remove large chunks of material and replace it with unsourced things that don't even make sense. I will stop reverting them and ask for semi-protection. HLHJ (talk) 19:20, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I initially disagreed with the moving around of the content. You appear to be engaging in edit warring again. QuackGuru (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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This edit added content to the image that is using sources that do not describing the image and is not about marketing. I responded on the talk page. For example, the part "This 2011 e-cigarette ad uses several standard marketing methods: emphasizing choice, freedom, and rebellion[10]" does not mention the 2011 ad. QuackGuru (talk) 16:55, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
You did not fix the issues with the caption. What source is about blu e-cigs ads? QuackGuru (talk) 18:09, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
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Replies on article talk page. HLHJ (talk) 05:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
I was editing the article. I noticed there is a problem in the lead. The Food and Drug Administration ruled in 2015 that there was not sufficient evidence to permit snus to be advertised as a safer alternative to smoking.[4][unreliable medical source?] It was not about snus in general. It was a specific brand and the source is incompatible with MEDRS. QuackGuru (talk) 15:02, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Replies on article talk page. If you could please post about articles on article talk pages, and add a WP:PING, I will see it just as fast, and replying will be faster for me. HLHJ (talk) 03:51, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi HLHJ. Good to hear that you are still with us and back on Wikipedia. Thanks for posting an apology on the DYK. That was thoughtful of you. As you probably saw. A hook made it in the end. I hope that you will return to your fruitful editing of the past. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:47, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
On my talk page, you said: "this is just to let you know that I've left a message for you at Talk:Sugar#Funding of health research. Thanks!" I read your comments, but have to say I feel the issue is settled for now. I don't want to be involved in a discussion other than improving the article according to editor consensus. --Zefr (talk) 17:57, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
I suggest you review this comment and strike the implication that Zefr is an industry shill. You may or may not know that I work a lot on paid editing and COI issues, and I have no tolerance for that kind of commentary, and will seek community action against you if you continue. It is possible to discuss content disputes on the article talk page without going there. Jytdog (talk) 02:59, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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You stated "QuackGuru, I am even more confused. You wrote "They are marketed as "smoke-free" products is supported by the first source", which seems to contradict your earlier tagging of the statement as fv, and at least part of your reason for removing the sentence."
It does not contradict the tagging. The content "Strategies for marketing iQOS include marketing it as "smoke-free"," is different than "They are marketed as "smoke-free" products." Do you agree you won't add failed verification content to nicotine related articles? I have responded to your comments on the talk page for months. You are continuing to propose content that appears to failed verification or is previously disputed. You also wrote "and as you say one source would be enough to support it," I did not say that. They are different accounts of different things. For example, the second source is about the promotion of IQOS in Ontario, Canada. QuackGuru (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, Eihel. On this edit: my understanding is that lower-case en:wiktionary:baroque is a common adjective for ornate and complex things, while upper-case en:wiktionary:Baroque is a proper adjective for stuff from the Baroque period. HLHJ (talk) 01:18, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Oh, sorry, you'd fixed it. Should have checked. Apologies, please ignore. HLHJ (talk) 01:28, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi HLHJ, I've posted a comment last week, regarding the COI tag on the Heat-not-burn tobacco product talk page, and would appreciate your input on the topic - when you have a chance. Thanks! Sarah at PMI (talk) 08:54, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
On 9 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sturm Cigarette Company, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite the party's anti-smoking faction, the Sturmabteilung was funded by a Nazi cigarette company (advertisement pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sturm Cigarette Company. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sturm Cigarette Company), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that this edit of yours added the named reference "nazi_policy", but did not add the reference's body, resulting in the error "Cite error: The named reference nazi_policy was invoked but never defined". I thought you'd like to know so that you can correct this. —DocWatson42 (talk) 14:54, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
On 16 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Schloss Weilburg, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Schloss Weilburg, a Baroque garden palace, contains a Renaissance palace (engraving pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Schloss Weilburg. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Schloss Weilburg), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for outstanding contributions to make this article more comprehensible and more beautiful! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:03, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello HLHJ
I've noticed your edit on the Notifications FAQ. I've edited that page to explain that only the last 200 notifications are kept.
Is it solving your issue?
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I appreciate any voice you give to the discussions about editor retention. I feel that the issue requires development of the discourse, and that no one has all the answers. Probably the solution will be recognition that different outreach strategies and different success metrics apply in different circumstances.
The on-wiki documentation of this is a jumble and I cannot recommend a place to read it all. If you ever want to talk by video or voice chat I can share some perspective on it and point you to other views also. Anything you say about the issue anywhere, and anyone else you draw into the conversation, is useful to me. Thank you a lot for posting meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Editing/Editor retention aid. I intend to post comments and support for this. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:51, 8 November 2018 (UTC) |
HLHJ, thanks for your message regarding this edit. I think you're right that with an accurate caption, this photo would be relevant to the article. My source for believing this photo to be taken in Jaffa, Israel comes from the Flickr album listed as the source in the photo's Wikimedia listing. The Flickr user says the album contains his photos from his trips to Israel. The photos immediately before (a VW Beetle) and after (a juice vendor) the claw machine photo are both labeled as being taken in Jaffa, and examining the exif data indicates they were taken just a few minutes before and a few minutes after the claw machine photo. The timestamps are too close together to allow them to come from different cities. 24.101.31.180 (talk) 14:14, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
On 16 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Women in Iceland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first woman voted in as head of state says she would not have got her job if women in Iceland had not walked away from theirs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Women in Iceland. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Women in Iceland), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
@HLHJ:, regarding the questions you posed about my experience in the community in the context of our 2019 Community Wishlist Survey discussion...
1) Most people don’t seem to “see” the Wikipedia community, yet you (“you” being me, Stussll) seem to have gotten involved with it almost immediately…what led you to do so? In short, I think I found the community when I did because I was looking for it. Leading up to my first edits, I'd been growing increasingly curious about how Wikipedia, the "public good" I'd come to value and depend on so heavily, came/comes to being. And a core part of that in my view was, and still is, Wikipedia's community and culture. Thus, why it was one of the first parts of the whole I sought out.
2) Model content is more visible to newcomers than the editors whose productive contributions sum to those very articles. How does this compare with your experience? This description captures my experience as well. This makes sense to me considering Wikipedia's collaborative and encyclopedic nature. What I'm growing increasingly interested in is the balance between the prominence of the end product (articles) and the collaborative process they emerge from. Pattern 11 appears to be seeking something similar.
3) How did you perceive the Wikipedia community when you first started editing (or even before)? How do you currently perceive it? I did not have a clear perception of the community prior making my first edit. In fact, this uncertainty added to my curiosity. Now, several months in, I'm taken aback by how committed people are to the movement's mission and excited they are to include others in it. Here I'm alluding to the level of detail and attention people like you have put into their Community Wish List Proposals, the patience and thoroughness with which tenured editors have answered my [sometimes] novice questions and the level of inclusivity – along a range of vectors – I've seen at the Bay Area WikiSalons. Certainly, the community faces a range of challenges that are well documented but even in articles such as that, I think it's striking how candidly and productively the community is able to talk about the challenges it faces. Stussll (talk) 00:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi HLHJ -- it was good to correspond a bit with you around your perspective and ideas for new editor retention. The Growth team has been making a lot of progress in the last few months, and we've been doing some planning recently. I'm hoping you could take a look at some of our current work and post any thoughts you have. We're working on a "help panel" (comments can go here), and on the next steps for the "Personalized first day" project (comments can go here). Thank you for any time you can give! -- MMiller (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Please revert back to a version such as a version before the disputed content was added, including the charred pizza image if you think that improves the article. Others may disagree if it is reverted to an older and shorter version. QuackGuru (talk) 22:30, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Please go ahead and revert to the version you think is best. QuackGuru (talk) 22:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Rather than discuss which version to revert back to I think you can revert it. I'm not sure why you have not reverted the content. If you dispute it you can revert it. It's that simple. You don't need to cont8une to discuss reverting to an older version. I insist you revert to the version you think is best. I don't understand why you have not reverted. I am not disputing you to revert. QuackGuru (talk) 23:06, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I am a little confused why you have not reverted back to the version you think is best. I insisted on the talk page for you to revert the recent changes I made. QuackGuru (talk) 23:20, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I don't have time to respond and edit for the nicotine page. I am busy. Maybe you can get feedback from others. I don't want to keep you waiting for me. I thought I give you a heads up. You can also start a RfC for other opinions. QuackGuru (talk) 01:48, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
No one formally closed the Commons music notation RfC and no one told me what to do about it when I asked, so I eventually added a project tag to phab:T208494 and quickly received replies from Legoktm and TheDJ. There has now been some progress, I guess. There are now subtasks for each file format.
Although I'm not impartial, I've assumed that the majority consensus is enough to keep MuseScore on the list.
I would strongly suggest you create a Phabricator account if you don't have one, especially since you were quite active in the RfC; there might be something I've missed in writing the Phabricator tickets.
It's also not totally clear to me if the RfC indicates rendering/thumbnail generation isn't necessary for now. It wasn't a question in the RfC and I assumed that the implementation could omit it, and generating thumbnails would mean more code to write (especially since there are essentially three different file formats to deal with). If it's not necessary, then according to TheDJ's checklist the only blockers are the security review and figuring out how to deal with the compressed formats (MuseScore and MusicXML). Jc86035 (talk) 14:53, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi HLHJ! I saw that you pinged me at Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#Possible_NFCC#8_violation, but I don't remember the conversation you referenced. Maybe you were thinking of someone else. I thought I'd let you know in case you need to ping someone else! Have a good day :) --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 17:24, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
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The article Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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A page you created, Foundation for_a_Smoke-Free_World, does not merit inclusion as a standalone entry and has been merged (and redirected) to Philip Morris International#Researchwhich is related to the subject of the article. Please contribute further improvements over there.∯WBGconverse 15:12, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the diagram and text on thermal decomposition of organic matter! I have added them to Pyrolysis. See also Talk:Pyrolysis. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 01:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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We worked on your request Southern_Ocean_Waters but never got it finished. I would like to know if we could complete it as I think it will be nice and we both put in work in this. Please let me know how you want to proceed, complete it or wast it? thanks. --Goran tek-en (talk) 11:49, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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This also covers Category:Species endangered by coffee plantations and Category:Species endangered by sugarcane plantations. – Fayenatic London 13:29, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
From the website it was extracted from , they use a "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" for all content posted to the site.
That said, this may be a VOA situation where they also use copyrighted footage from other networks, so I agree with the pull until better verification can be found. --Masem (t) 18:07, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi HLHJ, I’m responding to your question at Talk:Electric smoking system. I'm happy to discuss this, although please note that I'm answering in the capacity of a regular editor, not as an RfC closer, so I have no special authority on this. I'm also going to be quite long-winded here, so please bear with me!
The idea of overwriting existing content with a draft is a particular editing style normally used in specific circumstances. For example, as in this case, it can help with making major changes that might be controversial, especially when multiple editors are involved. WP:DRAFT might have some information you'd be interested in. That said, in my experience not too many editors often use this style, and overwriting an entire article like this is a very rare occurrence (even overwriting of individual sections is rare), so it's not likely something you need to expect again any time soon.
On a practical level, if I wanted to prevent this kind of situation on an article I'm working on, I would either ask editors if they could use a more incremental approach, or ask that each change (or each significant change) be proposed and discussed individually. If comparing the merits of two versions, I would filter out any changes I think are improvements or at least neutral, and focus on the ones I object to (or object to the most). Ideally, this would let us quickly find the heart of any disagreements, as well as focusing my efforts on the things that I think are most important. If you're interested more generally in cases where you want your work to be stable in the long term, the broad answer is to establish consensus, although of course that is easier said than done. In addition, it's particularly difficult for controversial topics. I find that finding and adding new sources, as long as the sources are valid, is the most likely type of edit to remain in the article. On the other hand, if you oppose a change to existing content, I assume you'll already be aware of WP:BRD.
More philosophically speaking, and this is something that happens to everyone - I would say that to some degree, editing an open-content project like Wikipedia requires a level of awareness or acceptance that your work will one day be overwritten, whether that happens tomorrow or ten years from now. In the worst cases, this may even come with insults or accusations of vandalism; I'm reminded of several of the points at WP:OWB (which I consider highly recommended reading in general). Unfortunately, I think it's pretty much unavoidable that editors become discouraged in situations like these. On my part, I remind myself that in the normal course of editing, the subsequent versions will usually include aspects of the previous versions, even if they aren't exactly as I wrote them. Even if not, I would expect to have affected the future editor's process of editing, just due to having been a part of the article's evolution, no matter how small - to say nothing of those people who read the previous version while it was active.
With regards to next steps for this specific article, I would focus on the comment this closure is made without judgement on any of the individual changes to the article
. This was in part to try and emphasize that editors of the previous text should not feel discouraged, and that the door is open for any of the specific changes that the replacement entails to be proposed for reversion. The conclusion is basically that Version B is better than Version A overall, but that there's no concrete outcome about any of the specific differences. Since it's now been a few weeks, it could be argued that the new version has gained an implicit consensus, although if you’ve been away then explaining that could help.
Another approach, one which is often undervalued, is simply to walk away. No article needs to be perfect, and there are thousands of other articles I'm interested in where I can work on important improvements just as easily, with less stress and greater productivity. It's especially valuable to be able to do this in a contentious topic area like this one, even if only to avoid eventually burning out. Even if I think a certain edit is an appalling disservice to the encyclopedia, I could always be wrong, after all.
I’m not really sure if this is what you asked for, so please let me know if that helps. :-) Sunrise (talk) 18:51, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Copied from User talk:Sarah at PMI#Please be careful:
HLHJ, you had trouble acknowledging the content failed verification. See Talk:Electric_smoking_system/Archive_4#Pipe. HLHJ, you added an image of a pizza that was unrelated to the article. There are many more examples. I think there is a strong case to be made for HLHJ being excluded from directly editing this topic area. The lengthy history of failed verification content edits advocating an idealised form of anti-tobacco is at odds with common practice, places HLHJ firmly on the wrong side of WP:V. HLHJ, for the next time, I suggest you propose all changes on talk first, with existing text, suggested replacement, reasons for the change, and sources. I suggest you do this one small change at a time. If you do not, then I think you could find that arbitration enforcement sanctions will be requested, and could likely exclude you from the topic area altogether. Consider this a free drink at the Last Chance Saloon; the next one will not be free. QuackGuru (talk) 23:50, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Copied (with indent altered) from User talk:Sarah at PMI#COI guideline:
People who want the latest concise information on PMI's IQOS product can visit Wikipedia and also get an article written independently.
The heat-not-burn tobacco product was largely written by me. I had to start a RfC because an editor was against me removing failed verification content and other problematic content. That's grounds for a topic ban if true.
This topic is not contentious and no evidence has been presented it is a contentious article. Check the archives of the heat-not-burn tobacco product article and you will find an editor waiting my time and others for months. There is an editor who appears to be unhappy and adds mass failed verification content to multiple articles. Check other nicotine articles they have edited. The problems continue with a certain editor. I don't think that editor should be allowed to continue to cause problems on multiple articles, especially when they are unhappy. They are also wasting a lot of my time explaining to them the content they want included fails verification. If it weren't for me the heat-not-burn tobacco product article would still be a train wreck. QuackGuru (talk) 02:34, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Copied from User talk:Sarah at PMI#Please be careful, posted before the preceeding post:
You have refused to acknowledge there is any problems with the examples presented above. You are wasting my time. I am busy gathering diffs in my e-mail folder just in case. WHO does not call them cigarettes. This is more evidence. Good luck. QuackGuru (talk) 07:10, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
WHO does not call them simply "cigarettes". Please quote WHO or please stop. Also you have not acknowledged you added MEDRS violations. Please read the comments by Seppi333 again. QuackGuru (talk) 08:05, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
I've replied at the RfC. HLHJ (talk) 05:39, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
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This discussion is entirely about a specific article and I am therefore moving it to Talk:Marketing of electronic cigarettes#Discusssion moved from User talk:HLHJ. All further comments should be made there; this section is closed, and nothing more should be added to it. HLHJ (talk) 14:26, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
I have been patient for over a year. If you want me to fix the pollution in mainspace I expect you to redirect it. QuackGuru (talk) 05:10, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
See Talk:Nicotine_marketing#Electronic cigarette section.
See Talk:Nicotine_marketing#Both sources make entirely different claims.
See Talk:Nicotine_marketing#The content is making a broader claim than the source.
There are problems with the content. Please help improve the wording or you may consider deleting the content. QuackGuru (talk) 13:42, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Please do not move my comments. You can open a new RfC rather than reopening a withdrawn RfC. The original RfC does not ask where the content should be placed. Therefore, it is irrelevant to restart it. The original question is no longer relevant. QuackGuru (talk) 13:50, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
See Revision as of 18:44, 15 June 2019, you added "pyrolyzes tobacco."
See Revision as of 17:04, 22 June 2019, you restored "pyrolyses tobacco" See diff and this diff. That was shocking you tried to add it to the first sentence of the IQOS section. QuackGuru (talk) 20:33, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
QuackGuru, I followed a link to User talk:Redrose64#Disputes for over a year. You wrote: "If this went to one of the drama boards things would resolve much quicker and there may not be any need for anymore RfCs. That's because an admin may show them the door. These articles are under DS. Editors being on there best behavior is not an option." I take it that I was meant. It would not be the first time you have spoken of taking formal actions in relation to me, though as far as I know you have not taken any.
If you think that I am behaving so badly that I would be banned, by all means bring the matter to my attention, and if you feel my response is inadequate, take formal action against me. Criticizing me in a forum where I can see and learn from your criticisms, including one in which other editors judge my actions, may improve my editing. Please don't criticize me to third parties without identifying me and pinging me, or repeatedly suggest sanctions you are not willing to pursue. HLHJ (talk) 03:21, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
This discussion is entirely about a specific article and I have therefore moved it with the moved-to template. For clarity, all further comments should be made there; this section is closed, and nothing more should be added to it. HLHJ (talk) 04:18, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
QuackGuru, was the above paragraph unclear? I've removed the "on Marketing of electronic cigarettes" you added to the section title, as it breaks the moved-from links, and you added another section header anyway. HLHJ (talk) 04:33, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
This edit was a violation of consensus and a violation of the RfC. QuackGuru (talk) 02:57, 4 August 2019 (UTC) "
See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 246#Online resource published by the Stanford Research Into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA) research group. It did not find it to be a reliable secondary source. It appears they are a collection of WP:primary sources. QuackGuru (talk)
This is also off-topic. QuackGuru (talk) 03:59, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
This edit was a violation of talk page consensus. There was a discussion on the text for caption. See Talk:Nicotine_marketing/Archive_3#Goody_two_shoes_image_caption. Do you agree to stop violating consensus? QuackGuru (talk) 04:24, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Please keep in mind you were notified of the discretionary sanctions.
See "I'm sorry, QuackGuru, I don't want to be too down on you, but I didn't see anything really useful in your New Year's Day edits. Maybe you stayed up too late the night before?" Do you agree to stop doing this sort of behavior?
You started a malformed RfC. See Talk:Electric_smoking_system/Archive_7 See WP:CIR.
You were edit warring against consensus. You were warring against consensus again.
The charred pizza image is largely unrelated to the article. See RfC for pizza image.
You added off-topic content. You added off-topic content again. See Talk:Marketing of electronic cigarettes/Archive 1#Article scope.. You are repeating the same kind if mistakes again and again. Are you going to agree to abide by consensus and stop edit warring? QuackGuru (talk) 05:04, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, QuackGuru. I've been away for a bit; could you please explain to me what happened at Electronic cigarette and e-cigarette liquid marketing? It looks like an heavily re-written version of the old Marketing of electronic cigarettes article, with the name re-scoped to match the content scope. Indeed, all of the titles that redirected to that article seem to redirect to the new article. However, the page has not been renamed; I cannot find the history of the old article anywhere. HLHJ (talk) 03:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
There was no re-written version of the old Marketing of electronic cigarettes article. I created a new article from scratch. There was consensus to redirect the article you created. You also copied content from the e-cig article. That content from the e-cig article was rewritten by a former smoker. Sourced content was replaced with failed verification content. I restored the sourced content recently. QuackGuru (talk) 09:13, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
The new marketing article is not a derivative of any other marketing article. The edit history of a redirected article should not be merged with a different article. The edit histories of different articles should not be spliced together. The talk page is used for improving the marketing article. Comments that are not about improving the article should not be posted on the talk page of the new marketing article. QuackGuru (talk) 13:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Please do not redirect species to genera. All species deserve an article and the only reason to redirect is if the genus is monotypic. Since Berardius had two species already, Berardius minimus needed its own article. Abductive (reasoning) 08:41, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
You have made a series of allegations without supporting evidence. Please strike your comments. Please keep in mind that you have been informed of the discretionary sanctions in this topic area. QuackGuru (talk) 22:32, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
You did not strike all your allegations against me. Do you stand by your comments? QuackGuru (talk) 22:56, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, a long time ago we worked on Southern_Ocean_Waters but we never finished it. I would love to finish it and have contacted you a few times regarding this.
This will be my last attempt to get it finished, after this I will not bother you again.
So just tell me if you want to finish it or not, thanks. Please ping me. --Goran tek-en (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contort_the_citations&action=history What is this nonsense? QuackGuru (talk) 19:36, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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For working hard to improve Riyadh International Book Fair, have a cuppa on the AfC team. Very few editors help out with abandoned drafts, so your help is greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work! Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:19, 19 December 2019 (UTC) |
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Thank you for improving Nocturnes (Debussy) while the principal author is sadly blocked, and a late "Valentine" to good relations ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for the Heroic copyediting work on climate sensitivity -- you have taken a well researched, but really hard to read article, into something useful for a broader audience -- thank you so much. Sadads (talk) 15:08, 29 February 2020 (UTC) |
Thank you, Sadads! I wish all heroism was that easy . I really ought to have some expertise in STEM communication by now, but I don't really use it on-wiki as I might; feel free to ping me if I can use it. HLHJ (talk) 16:25, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
I started a stub for Moss lawn. I hope you don't mind that I've done so. It's just that I like moss and wanted to learn more about moss lawns. I thought starting something to eventually expand upon was a good idea. Clovermoss (talk) 17:29, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to streamline the welcome template. Sdkb (talk) 21:46, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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I'm posting here instead of at DYK because the DYK page is long enough already :p Courtesy ping for OneUpOnUs. I've seen the recent comments on the DYK nom and I've been thinking about how to respond for a few days. The gist of my thoughts is that I'm not sure the article is ready for the main page at this point in time. I know this is strange for me to say since I'm the one who suggested the creator nominate it for DYK in the first place, but I think I got ahead of myself in wanting to encourage a promising new editor and didn't give proper consideration to MEDRS, NPOV, etc. The article is certainly much improved from its original state - mostly thanks to you! - but I still have some concerns, mainly over the reliance on the Frontiers source, which I think is okay to use in the absence of better sources, but which I'm not entirely comfortable showcasing on the Main Page. I want to reiterate again that I'm very thankful for your assistance with this article and especially your diplomatic comments on the talk page, which I found admirable, and instructive as someone who generally tries to avoid conflict on here... And apologies to OneUpOnUs for the mess this has turned into, which is mostly my fault :) But I thought I would raise this issue here before commenting further so we can develop a consensus. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 17:40, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Keppel Hesselink, Jan M (January 2020). "Rediscovery of Ceruletide, a CCK Agonist, as an Analgesic Drug". Journal of Pain Research. Volume 13: 123–130. doi:10.2147/JPR.S232714. PMID 32021401. {{cite journal}}
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Thanks! Schwede66 20:09, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I just saw this. It is very impressive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia_editing_for_researchers,_scholars,_and_academics I also took a try at writing a "cheat sheet for medical editors" a few years ago and had a few experieneced WP:MED community members help polish it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JenOttawa/Introduction_to_Medical_Editing:_Cheat_Sheet Please feel free to borrow anything that you wish for medical specific aspects! The more people who understand how Wikipedia works and who are interested in contributing to medical articles the better! I will add your resource to my list when sharing with new editors as well. Great work once again and good idea to share on the new editors talk page. JenOttawa (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the note on the protests: I've replied there. We're now 99.99% of the way to getting this venerable DYK done (at last!); do please look at what I've written near the foot of the DYK about Alt3a, and choose one of the options I provide, or very likely something better that I haven't thought of, and put it forward as Alt3b. Thanks! -- Hoary (talk) 01:55, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for this all-too-accurate description. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:50, 20 April 2020 (UTC) |
Thank you, WhatamIdoing. I was in need of humour after wading through all those depressing examples of sometimes-lethal gullibility. An octogenarian insisting that he's protected by his anti-flu homeopathic medicine, mixtures of household chemicals that evolve poisonous gasses, hundreds dead in Iran after drinking methanol, apparently on the grounds that alcohol in hand sanitizers kills COVID-19... it's not unreasonable that people become more willing to grasp at straws when scared, but exploiting this instinct to try to get fearful people to snort cocaine is horrific. I hope the sheer length of the very incomplete catalogue prompts someone to think before passing some misinformation on. Probably I really need to write it in to all the little articles on cocaine, alcohol, homeopathy, and so on. Sorry, that really wasn't funny. HLHJ (talk) 18:56, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
HLHJ, I noticed that the nominator has finally returned to the nomination, but forgot to ping you, the reviewer, so I thought I'd let you know that it's ready for you to continue reviewing. Thanks for taking this one on. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Your discussion regarding cumulative series got bit off topic to Graph:Chart template. Extension:Graph extension is bit separate issue to the template. Maybe you should clear up your section (eg. collapse JSON code). But back to the point: "invalidtext:[object Object]" is correct message because your JSON is not valid. Error is here on end of "data" section. It would not give valid graph anyway because your syntax is Vega-lite. Please try to define this graph in current Vega 5 syntax and I will try to "convert" it to Extension:Graph syntax (Vega 2). Usually I need to change "encoding" (Vega) to "properties" (Graph) in "marks" section, and change axis definition to be something like
axes": [
{"type":"x","format":"d", "scale": "x","orient":"bottom"},
{"type":"y","format":"d","scale": "y","orient":"left"}
],
It will be more less compatible both with Extension:Graph and Vega. Also I'm trying go to avoid or remove "signals".
There is guide for porting Vega 2 (wiki Graph) to later Vega 5 here. To fit Vega 5 graphs to wiki Graph you need to "reverse" porting guide and avoid anything that was not implemented in Vega 2. Documentation for Vega 2 is here. I don't really details but it seems that violin graphs require kernel density estimation and kde transform was implemented in Vega 5.4 so I wouldn't expect it quickly in Extension:Graph. --Pietrasagh (talk) 14:36, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hey, HLHJ. After I replied to you yesterday, I tried to revert some of their earliest edits. Some of it had been undone already, but for most of what hadn't, I had to revert it manually due to intermediate edits. Given that, I have low hopes for automating the task. On the possibility of an SPI report: not sure if that's a good or a bad idea, but if good, I think it can wait. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 13:15, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
By the way, something I noticed you doing (here and here): templates and HTML tags don't work within edit summaries - others see the literal wikitext. Links do work, and links to user pages apparently do send pings, as well. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 19:37, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
Greetings,I was looking for some support in following areas.
If any of above topics interest you, then pl. do contribute towards expansion of the same. Specially looking for support in Superstitions in Muslim societies.
Thanks and warm regards
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For the creation of Elastomeric respirator and Supplied-air respirator, and expansions to numerous other articles on respiratory protection! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 16:56, 28 August 2020 (UTC) |
Thank you, John P. Sadowski (NIOSH)! That's very kind of you. HLHJ (talk) 04:13, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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On 7 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elastomeric respirator, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that elastomeric respirators are used not only to protect against COVID-19 and tear gas, but also as fashion items (example pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elastomeric respirator. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Elastomeric respirator), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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They're blocked, if you didn't know already (I suppose you do, with the ping from Yngvadottir). It's a bit sad, so many times I thought (wanted to think?) there was progress... But simultaneously I think the blocks are a very positive change, as the only way things can continue is if they actually stop the behaviour, and of course this means we won't have to check up on them anymore. Anyway, if you didn't know, you know now. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 23:21, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
I should probably go through their edits when I have time and be sure anything remaining is sourced...: I'm quite certain the only surviving edits are two or three contributions to plot summaries of fictional works and a few "died at age..." remarks in biographies. Any other edits were undone without exception. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 13:15, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
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Your mention of taffeta and textile topics made me wander to another of my pet topics. So eventually I will be getting better involved there (currently I am quite frustrated by the lack of standardisation in that environment) and, yes, I still plan to find a believable reference for taffeta 😊.
Your updates on FRIN are a good example for me to be more direct/simple in my writing. I also got inspired by your information of your language skills and I added similar information to my profile. Cheers. Glafoululle des Alpes (talk) 17:18, 15 February 2021 (UTC) |
Ich hab mich an Wikipedia:Global user page gewagt und eine globale Benutzerseite erstellt. Solltest Du auch machen; man bekommt dann so spannende Emails wie « HsfBot meninggalkan Anda sebuah pesan di Wikipedia » und dann kann man auf seiner arabischen Diskussionsseite durch Google Translate «من ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة » mit « Aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie» übersetzen 😁. Die Banner funktionieren leider nicht (man sollte wohl mal meta-banner definieren). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glafoululle des Alpes (talk • contribs) 18:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi HLHJ, LTNS :-) Hope you're doing ok. Last year—before the world ended—we had a discussion at Clovermoss's talk page (User talk:Clovermoss/Archive 4#Editor retention, typo trivia) and you took a look at an early draft of User:Levivich/Help. I recently got back to that and expanded it, thought you might be interested in seeing the changes. Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Levivich harass/hound 06:46, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, I've been doing some maintenance category cleanout and noticed that you added the {{Expert needed}} template to Platform bed, but you didn't specify a WikiProject category. Not specifying a category makes the template unhelpful, and adds it to the useless Category:Articles needing unspecified expert attention. Additionally, it's crucial to add a reason=
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. Cheers! jp×g 23:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello HLHJ I have added projects Japan, Fashion, to your article. You may wish to join them, check their to-do, and meet new people with interest in these topics. ( To reply click "edit" next to this section, and add your reply at the end. ) Cheers, --Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 03:39, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Hiya - just wanted to pop in and say thanks for your hard work in improving various Japanese subject matter articles!
I also wanted to ask something of you. Could I ask that you maybe start adding {{transl}}
and {{nihongo}}
templates to your work wherever possible? I've been adding foreign language tags to these articles for a while now, and before your edits, a lot of them were completely done, in terms of foreign language terms being placed in the right templates.
They're pretty easy to use - transl for transliterated terms, {{lang}}
if it's just kanji on its own, nihongo for english first, then kanji and romaji in brackets, and {{nihongo3}}
when you want the places of romaji and english flipped in the eventual display. I understand it's a pain to slow down edits with adding these in, but I'm trying to make more editors aware of guidelines like MOS:ACCESS, and how they make Wikipedia more accessible for users with screenreaders.
I really appreciate having someone else help out on these pages, but it would save time not to have to go over them again to see what might need a template now(!) - the task of doing up these articles is never-ending. Again - any help at all is appreciated, ans what you've done so far is amazing. Thank you! --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 10:10, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
{{zh}}
and {{korean}}
(!) -- Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 19:47, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Could I be a pain in the butt and ask you to have a look in on Itchiku Kubota for me? There's about as many repeated references as you could shake a stick at, and the organisation of the article's information is a nightmare - I swear half of it is repeated in the Legacy section for no reason. Thanks! (And sorry!) --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 10:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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The Guidance Barnstar | ||
To thank you for your mentorship on here; I really appreciate it! QueenPuck (talk) 18:39, 2 September 2022 (UTC) |
Just after adding a citation needed tag to your edit (the junk rig element) I noticed that you had made some changes to the various bits of advice and guidance in Wikipedia that cover this tag. It seems to me strange that a long-standing editor should be suggesting that material added to Wikipedia is OK if it is not supported by a reference. The statement about junk rig being a "low-stress" arrangement sounds reasonably believable – but many readers would wonder "who says this, how can I learn more about this subject?" If what is in an article simply comes out of an editor's head and may be the result of misunderstanding, it is very important to be able to track down errors. Articles on nautical subjects, particularly on historical aspects of sail, are full of uncited material – most of which does not measure up when compared with specialist, authoritative sources. I fear that any encouragement of uncited material can only add to these problems.
I had thought that we had progressed from absence of sources to their quality (another subject that I could drone on about). ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 07:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Template:There's no citation has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:43, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!
As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.
We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.
If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.
We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.
We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.
Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).
Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:
Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.
A new system for the mentors list
The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.
At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.
The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors.
Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.
Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.
A tip for mentors
Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.
And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.
Other improvements
Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:
Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:827F:67C0:A9D2:E853:E3E:C1CD (talk) 02:31, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
... so much for your edit on 3 Equals some time ago (ahem). I try to ignore my watchlist, I don't even know if 3 Equals is on it: I think today is the very first time I ever looked at the talk page. Anyway, thanks for your positive and helpful comments: I think that the music - and the deep-seated emotions that engendered it - still stands out head and shoulders above the commercial popular hoo-hah which has always existed for most people: in contradistinction to those who have no fear of death at all, today of all days.
I don't do barnstars, but here's a pic of an old barn near where I use to live: MinorProphet (talk) 13:53, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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On 8 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Snowflake (software), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that you can keep a snowflake in a browser tab? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Snowflake (software). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Snowflake (software)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Your hook reached 9,969 views (830.8 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of November 2022 – nice work! |
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Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!
The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.
Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.
This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.
After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.
We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:
The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at "Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.
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Hello HLHJ : Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, RV (talk) 04:10, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
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Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:
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The article and the nomination have seen no progress in two weeks. Other reviewers will not be as patient as I am. Please return to the article and nomination promptly to avoid it being rejected. Flibirigit (talk) 22:51, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
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@HLHJ Requesting inputs and help @ Template talk:Cycling#Need links Bookku (talk) 06:14, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
On 13 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that alcohol manufacturers claimed the Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study violated their freedom of expression? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Leveling up release
5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February
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Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!
Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.
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Welcome to the twenty-seventh newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
We shared our annual plan, for the period July 2023 - June 2024.
Our first project of the year will be Community configuration 2.0, which helps editors with extended rights transparently and easily configure important on-wiki functionality.
After we finish work on Community configuration 2.0, we will hope to fit in one of the following projects:
Please let us know what you think about these projects on the related talk page, or Growth's annual plan talk page.
We released a new Section-level “add an image” structured task to Growth pilot wikis (Arabic, Bengali, Czech, and Spanish). This task was part of the Structured Data Across Wikipedia project. We are monitoring the edits made, and we look for community feedback as well.
Suggested Edits are now receiving topic predictions via the new Language-Agnostic Topic Classification. This change affects non-English Wikipedia wikis. It will ensure newcomers receive a greater diversity of task recommendations. Before, as this feature was a test, English Wikipedia was used to select topics. The change is gradual as lists of topics are refreshed when they become empty. The Research team will evaluate the impact in a few months.
Starting on August 1, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link": Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia.
The Growth team provides dedicated features to establish a mentorship program for newcomers. Every newcomer gets a volunteer mentor who provides encouragement and answers questions. Communities can set up or join this mentorship system by visiting Special:ManageMentors. This mentorship system is configurable by the community at Special:EditGrowthConfig.
More communities have implemented mentorship. A Wikimedia Foundation data scientist will be looking at the impact of Mentorship. We will look at the impact on Spanish and English Wikipedia.
The Growth team will also host a Mentoring new editors on Wikipedia session at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Workshop attendees will help brainstorm improvements to Growth’s mentorship features.
We will share more complete experiment analysis for all the three parts of the Positive reinforcement project soon. At the moment, the new Impact module, Leveling up, and Personalized praise are still being A/B tested on the Growth team's pilot wikis.
In the meantime, initial leading indicators for the Personalized praise project have been published. Although this is still a relatively small sample, results seem healthy. They show that Mentors are indeed receiving notifications and clicking through to view their praise-worthy mentees.
The Growth team is currently focusing on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation. It is a project that touches many different Wikimedia Foundation teams. The Growth team will focus on temporary accounts through two main points:
We are still in the early planning stage of the Community Configuration 2.0 project:
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Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.
This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.
At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback.
We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias.
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When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed.
We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion.
We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved.
It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor.
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Hi HLHJ :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested.
By the way, I remember bumping into you a few years ago and having a nice conversation. It's nice to still see you around. For some reason I thought you had become inactive. I'm glad that this was a misperception on my part. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
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If you attend Wikimania 2024, please join us for the session about Community configuration's future!
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at our pilot wikis using the new Metrics Platform. We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
Increase constructive activation on mobile
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Editing a Wikipedia page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g. Edit Check and Structured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with the Editing team to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.
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