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The WikiEagle - January 2022
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Aviation Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Outreach • The WikiEagle | |
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Happy New Year from Wikimedians of Los Angeles!
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LA to FA 2022
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Dear AlanM1, You're invited to a zoom call, taking place on February 11, with the goal of improving the article on Los Angeles to Featured article status! I often find it daunting to approach the Big Subjects on my own—so if you, like me, want a time to sit down with fellow dedicated editors and tackle something important and complex, this is the zoom for you! I, unfortunately, have no way to transmit snacks over zoom; but I trust you to exercise good judgement and discretion in selecting snacks of your own. Hope to see you there—if you're interested, add your name here! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 00:19, 10 January 2022 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Nomination for deletion of Template:HexColorToLum
Template:HexColorToLum has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox U.S. county/TZ row
Template:Infobox U.S. county/TZ row has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:11, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply
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Re my comment of 2020-Aug-24 at " talk: Wayne Roberson, Austin, Texas", you asked about errors I mentioned but did not correct…these were minor, but nobody likes loose ends. Before I elaborate to you or proceed to fix those errors, I’ve tried to learn more about entering. But finding where to go within Wikipedia to learn how to do many things eludes me.
Much of my prior editing has been desultory: rephrasing for clarity, etc. Often I simply look into an "edit" screen to see how things are done. Your experience as an editor is far beyond my knowledge, and you replied to me, so I am asking for help. I have an example problem that pertains to many things I would like to enter: I cannot learn how to add to or revise the "References" section of an article. An example is "Fort Lancaster": all I see is on the "edit" screen is "==References==" then " I’ve entered several times to this article (in 1974-1976, I was head of field archeology at that site). I want to comment on a recent statement about a "model" of the site in a local (Ozona TX) museum, which museum’s Wikipedia article has a photo of a cute but fanciful little construction with no data to support it. There is no illustration in Federal or State of Texas data showing what was above ground, only archeological ephemera such as foundation stones and soil differences are evident. The supposed "ruins" of a building in the article itself is the work of late 1960’s architects who had little more than a few scattered stones to guide them, and the "restoration" is imaginative and embarrassing, to say the least, but I would not eliminate the photo or criticize the "restoration" — which precedes my time at Texas Parks and Wildlife. How should I proceed with my learning. And how may I avoid being obtrusive? Wayne Roberson, Austin, Texas (talk) 23:33, 25 January 2022 (UTC) |
- @Wayne Roberson, Austin, Texas: Hi. I'm afraid I've no idea what it was about to begin with, being such a long time ago. I'm pretty inactive on Wikipedia for some time now, so I can't be of much help, except to say that, if you're looking for a primer on references, I believe WP:REFBEGIN is a decent starting point and will point you to additional resources if needed.
- The key is that the reference code is placed between
<ref>...</ref>
tags at the point in the text where you want the [#] to appear. The wiki software then assembles them all at the point where the{{Reflist}}
template is found (usually in the References section), doing additional formatting and setting up the links back and forth to the [#] in the article text.
- Two good places to ask for help are WP:Teahouse and WP:Help desk. I hope this helps. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 21:29, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you
Your edit to revert on Kirksville, MO was not made by me. I believe I was logged into my Wiki account and a student took over and inserted the 'god forsaken wasteland' edit. Sorry to have caused that trouble and good looking out. I'll be more careful to log out of my account in the future. From an embarrassed Kirksvillian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toka248 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:SCOTUS term for US volume
Template:SCOTUS term for US volume has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 11:59, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Features for new users coming soon (and mentors wanted)
Hello.
Although you've not been very active at all there recently, I see you're still currently listed as a host at the Teahouse. So I wanted to make sure you're aware of the imminent rollout of new Growth Team Features which every new account will be getting by default. Each users will soon see a new 'Homepage' tab next to their User page. It contains two main elements which might impact on your involvement - and you'd be welcome to get involved and help out directly with one of them.
- Firstly, they will be offered a range of 'suggested edits', and encouraged to make simple improvements to pages that interest them. (Being aware of this feature would be helpful for all Teahouse hosts if you're likely to offer advice on tasks for them to start out doing.)
- There's also a 'Your impact' box to show them how many people have seen the pages they've just edited.
- Finally, each new user is randomly assigned a 'mentor' from a list of friendly, experienced editors, like yourself. If they get stuck, they can ask a question directly to them via a Your mentor box, and hopefully get a swift, friendly answer from that mentor. Currently, this feature is given to 2% of new users, but it's set to increase to around 10% in the very near future.
To spread the load on our current list of around 65 mentors, I'm reaching out to ask if you'd like to help out and sign up as one? The workload is relatively small; User Panini! reports receiving four questions a month, on average, all of which were simple ones of the type we already get at the Teahouse, whilst I've had just one in the last 3 weeks. To view a list of every question asked of all mentors over the last 14 days, click here.
If becoming a mentor and being available to help new users on their first few days here interests you - just as have done at the Teahouse in the past - then please consider signing up at Growth Team features/Mentor list. But please only do so if you are genuinely willing to be available to help. Existing users can already 'opt-in' to seeing the Newcomer Homepage features via their Preferences.
Thank you! Nick Moyes (talk) 11:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info, @Nick. Unfortunately, after some time away from the help platforms and editing in general (due to interference from Real LifeTM), I don't feel particularly qualified to help any more, as it seems I need to go look up some of the simplest things, and don't really have a feel for what's going on in the project like I used to. I applaud the new features and hope they lead to more/better engagement by new users. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 00:13, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
- No worries. Thanks for letting me know. Hope you’ll be back once you get your feet under the table again. Cheers Nick Moyes (talk) 00:26, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Color list row
Template:Color list row has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Color list top
Template:Color list top has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:ColorToLum
Template:ColorToLum has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:RM row name
Template:RM row name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:38, 5 June 2022 (UTC)