User talk:Michael D. Turnbull

DYK for 5-Methyl-2-((2-nitrophenyl)amino)-3-thiophenecarbonitrile

On 29 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 5-Methyl-2-((2-nitrophenyl)amino)-3-thiophenecarbonitrile, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a chemical known as ROY has eleven crystalline forms, including red, orange and yellow examples? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/5-Methyl-2-((2-nitrophenyl)amino)-3-thiophenecarbonitrile. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 5-Methyl-2-((2-nitrophenyl)amino)-3-thiophenecarbonitrile), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Coral Bell

On 27 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Coral Bell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ric Throssell tried unsuccessfully to recruit Coral Bell as a Soviet spy in Canberra? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Coral Bell. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Coral Bell), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from Buffalobev (15:28, 20 September 2021)

Hi Michael, Nice to know I've been assigned a mentor. I saw a grammar mistake on the page I was reading and I think that's the kind of editing I'm going to be doing for quite awhile. I'm an anthropologist by training, so I tend to read pages having to do with history, philosophy, society, human evolution, psychology, etc. quite a bit.

Thank you!

Bev --Buffalobev (talk) 15:28, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, Buffalobev! There's quite a steep learning curve here, so you are wise to stick to making minor edits at first. Don't be shy in asking me for advice, though, which you can do by continuing to edit into this part of my Talk Page. I have it on my watchlist, of course, so there won't be any need to alert me with a ping or a mention (using {{u|Username}} like I did for you in this thread). You can tell the world a little about yourself and what you intend to contribute by creating your userpage: currently your signature is a red link but the system will allow you to create a first draft if you click on it. See WP:UPYES for advice on that. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:56, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 4,7-Dichloroquinoline

On 1 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 4,7-Dichloroquinoline, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the availability of the chemical intermediate 4,7-dichloroquinoline facilitated the discovery of hydroxychloroquine in 1949? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/4,7-Dichloroquinoline. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 4,7-Dichloroquinoline), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 3-Hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde

On 21 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 3-Hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that 3-hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde has the lowest molecular weight of any dye which exhibits green fluorescence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/3-Hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 3-Hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from La-provence-wood on User:La-provence-wood (12:10, 27 December 2021)

I need some help in getting this article published. Let me know what I need to do to format it correctly and get it right for Wikipedia. When I try to publish it I can’t find it online. Let me know how to best process it so it can be published. Thanks! --La-provence-wood (talk) 12:10, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@La-provence-wood: You have made a bit of a mess, which is not surprising because you are a new editor here and you have plunged straight in to try to create an article, which is incredibly difficult until you've learned the ropes: a bit like trying to compose a symphony before you've learned how to play any musical instrument. Firstly, you need to "blank" your own User Page at User:La-provence-wood. That's not a place to draft a new article, just a place to tell other editors here how you intend to contribute to the encyclopaedia (see WP:USER). Before doing that, you need to incorporate any of the useful stuff from that page (e.g. the references) into the draft article at Draft:Paul Stephen Boyington, which you don't seem to have touched for nearly two months. That is the correct location for new articles that are to be considered for inclusion in Wikipedia and the only place you should continue to add material about him. Once the draft is ready for review, there is a button to submit it. I also notice that you have other part-drafts at User:La-provence-wood/sandbox and User:La-provence-wood/Sample page, which is why I'm calling this a mess! Stick to the single draft and make edits there to progressively develop it. Be aware that you are trying to write about a living person and as such you MUST meet all the rules stated at WP:BLP, especially the one that says All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. I will add some general links to your Talk Page at User talk:La-provence-wood which includes help on this.

Next, a word about publication. You will have seen how you need to use the "Publish changes" button to save what you have written on to the page you are editing. The word "publish" is not used in the sense that what you have written will end up being indexed by search engines like Google. Talk pages, sandboxes and draft space are not indexed by these search engines; only articles in Main Space (the actual encyclopaedia) get indexed. The meaning of "publish" is that what you have saved can be found by anyone who knows where to look: in your case I found everything you had done by navigating to Special:Contributions/La-provence-wood and I could click onto each page from there.

Finally, some advice that you may not like. Postpone trying to get the draft about PSB accepted for at least several weeks. Meanwhile try to improve some of the 6 million+ articles already available, perhaps looking at those in topic areas that interest you. That way, you'll learn how things work here and may even enjoy making contributions. Persisting with a draft that doesn't meet the expected standards is likely to be very frustrating as the experienced editors who review new material (I'm not one of them) can be quite harsh. Good luck! Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:53, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from ENES(Enchy) on Talk:Ivan Sergei (14:04, 2 January 2022)

Hi, my name is Enes and I am from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am interested in information about his parents, because I think that Ivan Sergei actually comes from somewhere in the Balkans, I want to say his origin. Can I get information about it, just so I know. --ENES(Enchy) (talk) 14:04, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello ENES(Enchy), welcome to Wikipedia. I've deleted the repeats of your question: I'm not sure how you managed to get the copies! I'll add some general information about editing Wikipedia to your Talk Page in a little while. The key is that for biographies of living people Wikipedia has very strict standards. All statements must be backed up by reliable sources. These don't have to be online sources, although these days many of them will be. However, they have to be published in the sense that they are in principle available to anyone to verify they are accurate. So they can be in foreign languages or obscure books that only a few libraries might hold. I don't know why you believe that Ivan Sergei comes from somewhere in the Balkans because the article says he was born and raised in the US and that fact is backed up by the quoted sources. Similarly, this link quoted as a reference mentions his Italian / Dutch descent, which I would assume means that these were the nationalities of his parents. Of course, sources can be wrong but if you want to alter the article, you'll need to find other source(s) which back up what you intend to add. You cannot just put in information you personally believe to be true: on WIkipedia we call this original research and it is strictly forbidden here. By all means come back and add any further questions you have for me into this thread. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from SobieskyPL (09:23, 4 January 2022)

Hi, I accidentally added letter „g” in this article. How can I revert this change?

Article: https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macierz_odwrotna --SobieskyPL (talk) 09:23, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi SobieskyPL. You can revert any edit you make on any page just by going to the "History" tab that appears alongside the article in question and clicking on the "undo" option in the list of edits that appear alongside your name/timestamp. I note that this question on my Talk Page is the only edit your account has made to the English Wikipedia and that the page you linked to (on the Polish Wikipedia) has never been edited by you — its last edit was on 18 August 2021. So are you sure of your facts? Maybe you edited the page but did not save the changes? Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:46, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your heed! 589q (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Merger of Alkane stereochemistry into Conformational isomerism

Hi, there has been a recent objection to the merger of Alkane stereochemistry into Conformational isomerism so I was wondering if you would be willing to rejoin the discussion again since the consensus was made years ago but I want to ensure that this current objection is heard by the original participants of the discussion before I merge and remove this from the backlog. Thanks! -Karthanitesh (talk) 00:54, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Actually, Karthanitesh, the original discussion was only one year ago. I've made another comment and I think the consensus is pretty clear as a merge: I hope you are happy to do the work! Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

You're right! Sorry, the new year has made me forgotten how much time actually has past. Thanks for your reply and when a week has passed since the last comment, I will do the merger! -Karthanitesh (talk) 15:46, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Suriyakp93 (10:30, 19 January 2022)

hi sir how to get a editing job in Wikipedia --Suriyakp93 (talk) 10:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

There are no jobs here, if you mean work for payment, Suriyakp93. All contributors are volunteers who do what they can, when they can. Wikipedia is one of the most-read websites in the world and is proud of its largely accurate articles on a huge variety of topics. I am rewarded by the knowledge that my writing here will be around long after I'm gone! Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:45, 19 January 2022 (UTC)