User talk:Victor Schmidt

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Rao Balaji Rathore

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Features for new users coming soon (and mentors, like you, wanted!)

Hello. Although for some reason you aren't signed up as a host at the Teahouse, I recognise you've made a lot of number of contributions there over the years. 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 and other helpers 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) 17:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry I don't feel comfortable becoming a mentor for new users at this time. While my activity has been fairly high in the last few weeks, I can already estimate that there will be a time in the near future where I have to get inactive for longer periods again. And having an inactive mentor is IMO the last thing needed. Victor Schmidt (talk) 18:06, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

That's absolutely fine. Nobody is under any obligation to do anything here. Best of luck in all you do. Nick Moyes (talk) 22:52, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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Sean Bush Images

Hi Victor,

I realized I tried chatting on an archived page so starting a new thread. A few months ago I created a page for Dr Sean Bush but the images were not approved. I have since reached out to Dr. Bush and explained what I was doing and he kindly submitted photos in which he owned and had taken himself. He sent them to wiki-commons along with his approval and me on the thread. I'd like to add those images to his page but want to make sure they are good to go on the backend. Is there a place to go where you can see if those images are approved and won't be taken down if I add them?

Thanks, Nicole Beansalad3 (talk) 20:31, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

@Beansalad3: When in doubt about wether an image permission has gone through, you can check the file description page or ask at the VRT noticeboard. File description pages should have this template embed (don't add it yourself, it won't make the permission valid). As far as it seems right now, there seems to be some sort of problem I can't tell exactly because I don't have VRT access. Dr. Bush should check his mailbox, the VRT people will likely have sent a response. Victor Schmidt (talk) 21:32, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Victor, I will check with the noticeboard. There was some back and forth on asking if he was the owner of the images and how and Dr. Bush did respond. I'll check on next steps. '