User talk:Arjayay

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Broadcasted

The Wiktionary definition of Broadcasted states the use is sometimes proscribed, so it should not be used. The word also appears on Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/B

Broadcasted appears in some dictionaries, but others, e.g. Chambers state "Sorry, no entries for Broadcasted were found".
Broadcast appears in all dictionaries, and should be used as COMMONALITY - "Wikipedia tries to find words that are common to all varieties of English".

A May 2023 search for Broadcast gave over 234,000 uses, compared with a search for Broadcasted which gave just 99.
Of these, 16 are redirects to "Broadcast" articles, 14 refer to a 2015 Canadian TV award and 5 relate to a 1924 cartoon. The rest are in quotations.

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The Companization

Hey A-Y, I have made a translation from a Swedish article. I am a total beginner here, I even do not know if I published or if its only available in my sandbox. The Swedish article is "Företagening" the English version id "The Companization". Can you assist me in how to finish this article? Sorry if I ask you the wrong thing! / Best regards Hans David.Hassle (talk) 20:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi David.Hassle I have no idea why you chose to contact me, as I am not a new article reviewer.
One of the hardest things to do on Wikipedia, is create a new article; but people try and do that after only one or two edits; that is like entering a Grand Prix race after 2 driving lessons. Your draft includes multiple WP:External links which we do not allow in the bodytext of articles, but has no WP:references whatsoever.
Please read and follow Help:Your first article and Help:Referencing for beginners.
I have moved the draft to Draft:Companization and added a draft article header which includes a "submit" button, which will add it to the review queue, but please do not submit it until you have resolved these fundamental problems, as it will definitely be rejected - good luck - Arjayay (talk) 20:50, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for taking your time Arjayay! David.Hassle (talk) 09:51, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@David.Hassle:. I created a new article on Haren Prison in January. If you look at the article history you can see that I built it up by looking at what reliable sources said.

Everything I put into the text of the article had the source for it cited next to it. Most of the sources were Dutch-language or French-language. I gave both the actual titles for sources and the translated titles - in a citation template title= is for the real title and trans-title= is for the English-language translation of the title. We need the real title more than we need the translated title. With some quotations I put the original in as notes with a translated quotation in the text.^[1] That way people could correct the translation if I got it wrong. With some prison-management technical terms, it was hard to be sure what the right English technical term was, so I put the term in the source next to what I thought was the right translation. At a later stage of article development, some of these Dutch terms got deleted because there was greater confidence in the English translations.

I found sources by searching Google news using Dutch and French terms, also names of people involved in the project, names of organisations involved in the project. The prison is in Belgium, a bilingual country. And yes, some Walloon-nationalist editors objected to Flemish (Dutch) terms and names in the article.

If you go through the page history you will see lots of features of Wikipedia mark up that are worth learning.

The method I use to edit Wikipedia is Wikitext. There is another method called "Visual", but I have no idea how to use that. I know that there are some bot-like features with advanced editors whose behaviour is not always sensible.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:15, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much! David.Hassle (talk) 11:41, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:OABOT

Hello! I've noticed you're very active improving the usage of reliable sources. Have you tried the oabot tool? I'd love to hear about your experience doing some edits with it. There are new suggested edits in the queue. Nemo 21:18, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

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Sources

An interview is a perfectly valid source. If you and Wikipedia disagree, you're the ones in the wrong not me, and you'd prefer people remain misinformed because of literal pettiness. Systema2000 (talk) 08:29, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

google your username, all you see is arguing with people. you have so many biases and agendas and are just a pain for people. Systema2000 (talk) 08:32, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Request for guidance

Dear Arjayay,

Just walked through your Wiki profile and I must say it looks so convincing and competent. From articles with varied subjects to barnstars and honors that you received, testify your vast experience.

There are certain subjects and themes which are still untouched on Wikipedia. I conducted ample research on those topics and would really appreciate your kind support and guidance on them (from the creation to editing and retention of Wikipedia pages); thus enabling me to contribute my bit in enhancing the quality and content of this platform. Looking forward to your response.

Thank you!

With Respect, Mike WikiReviewer111 (talk) 17:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Stop being a typical wiki mong, my edit containemd a source. Are you literally blind or something? We both know you just enjoyed deleting someone elses work, because theyre not in your wiki cabal . Get a life, stop reverting peoples legit work.