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Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to Mackenzie Woodring. I did have one note for you. I am working on a maintenance project to clean up Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this: |image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]
, instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do: |image=SomeImage.jpg
. There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption
. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks!! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:18, 7 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Your recent article submission to
Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:
The comment the reviewer left was:
I would not resubmit as there's still no independent notability and substance apart from the Got Talent appearances.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit
when they have been resolved.
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Hello, Laatu. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Benjamin Yonattan".
In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}
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Hi! I noticed you signed up for The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada but hadn't submitted any articles. There's no deadline, but the challenge is coming up to its first anniversary so this could be a good time to submit any Canada-related articles you've created or improved since November 2016. Please try to ensure that all entries are sourced with formatted citations and no unsourced claims.
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Hey, I noticed you marked yourself as a member of WikiProject Wikify and you are currently listed as active. I was wondering if you would be able to assist with our current backlog reduction plan. While traditional drives are more structured month-long sprints by WikiProject Wikify members, there is currently lacking activity within the project and in order to significantly reduce the incredible backlog, members are encouraged to review all articles marked with the Underlinked Template Message - {{underlinked}} - a list of which can be found here - to analyze the worthiness of the template message on the given article. Articles that have nothing to link or are have had wikilinks sufficiently added should have the template removed to clear the backlog and make it easier for editors to find articles in genuine need of wikification. This can be done by any editor; however, all editors should consider joining if they haven't done so already. Thank you!
The Novac (talk) 07:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
- Hi @The Novac:! I would be happy to contribute some time to help with the WikiProject Wikify backlog. Is there specific information available about the current drive/effort? Looking at the project page, I saw drive information from 2015 & earlier; perhaps I wasn't looking in the right place, or perhaps there isn't a formal drive/blitz structure for the 2018 plan. Either way, I will carve out a bit of time to help wikify. Laatu (talk) 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
- Thanks for your contributuions @Laatu:! You are right about our current plan for the 2018 backlog. The reason we don't have a formal monthly blitz program currently is due to the lack of active editors within the program and the difficulty of spearheading the drives alone since I currently have little/no support from an administrative side. Hopefully after a while and after I contact the members listed on the project page we can resume normal operation. The Novac (talk) 05:22, 13 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
- Ok! Thanks for your reply @The Novac: and I wish you success rebuilding the team. Laatu (talk) 17:44, 13 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Nice to see you back for May's drive! Thanks for your edits to Sindoh, reducing the copy editing backlog! I've reviewed the article and made a few changes which you can see through the "View history" link on the article's page. Here are a few notes:
- There was a bit of overcapitalization in the lead.
makes Multi-function Printers, Fax Machines, and 3D Printers.
Those are generic terms rather than proper nouns, so they don't get capitals (whereas the D in "3D" is capitalized as an acronym). Similarly in the infobox, where only the first word of the sentence fragment gets a capital, and the section headers which get sentence case.
- I changed back: Seoul (South Korea) → Seoul, South Korea. Although you'll frequently see parenthesis used for disambiguation, for locations we almost always use commas.
- There are a number of symbol characters which Wikipedia shuns in articles for a collection of reasons, mainly due to clarity (the symbols don't have the same meaning across the English-speaking world) and that they can be technically problematic (over edits by multiple editors, some symbols may get moved into the wikicode with unpredictable results).
- The first was a slash character in
Signed a partnership with Ricoh, Japan / Produced BS-1, the first electronic copying machine in Korea
. The problem is that it's unclear how the two statements are related. Did they produce the BS-1 through a collaborative effort resulting from their partnership with Ricoh? Or were these unrelated events which happened the same calendar year? I chose to simply separate them as two sentences. (MOS:SLASH)
- Further down there were three pair of curly quotes which I straightened. (MOS:CURLY)
- Company names were given in italics which isn't standard practice. Wikipedia uses italics for emphasis, for certain scientific names, names of ships, titles of major works of art, foreign words (in Roman script), and when specifically mentioning words as words. (MOS:ITALIC)
I believe all of this information can be found in the main page of the MOS: (Manual of Style), Wikipedia's style guide which is used so that articles look consistent and are accessible. You can find additional resources for copy editing at the Guild's how-to page. I wouldn't expect you to know the whole MOS, but refer to it if you run into something you're unsure about. Or you can ask me or one of the other Guild coordinators. Happy editing! – Reidgreg (talk) 00:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hey,
I hope you do not mind, but I noticed you accidentally put a draft article into the mainspace, and so I moved it into the draft space. If you have any questions or feel I messed up, just leave a comment on my talk page. In veritas (talk) 00:46, 8 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 22:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Even though it seems like it, this link [1] is not a web archive .. |archiveurl=
is for web archives. In this case newspapers.com is a source, which could in theory have its own web archive link, thus it would have its own separate citation template with newspaper.com in the |url=
field. Newspapers.com is similar to JSTOR or Gale, subscription based commercial databases. -- GreenC 22:13, 9 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hello, Laatu. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Chris Garafola, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 16:01, 7 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hello, Laatu. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Inolex, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.
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- Hi Laatu; I've done my best to remove the promotional content, waffle and buzzwords in this article but there may be some remaining so I haven't removed the {{Advert}} tag. You may remove it if you think the c/e has sufficiently dealt with the problem content; it might, however, be best to ask a neutral editor to remove it. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:09, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
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