User talk:Alalch E.

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This user has changed the username of this account. It used to be Twsabin.

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Welcome to my talk page!

I like to keep things compact, and don't have any great ideas for my user page yet, so my signature directs here.

I was a long-time reader and lurker (since 2003). I appreciate the Five pillars and the idea of open knowledge, and want to give something back; this is why I began editing in 2021. I'd like to receive your feedback on anything I've done. Expect a reply! :)

By the way:

I prefer to keep discussions unfragmented. If you start a new talk topic here, I will respond on this same page, as an effort to keep the entire conversation in one place. By the same token, if I leave a comment on your talk page, please respond to it there, using the ping template like this: {{ping|Alalch E.}}. If you want to initiate a conversation with me anywhere else, simply ping me there—no need to notify me here.
If a discussion here is about a specific article, I may move the discussion to that article's talk page. Were one to disagree I would tell them to treat it as my removing comments on my talk page and my quoting them on the target page. The Moved discussion to/from templates are useful here.

User talk page messages

Hi Twsabin, thanks for your contributions. I noticed that when notifying users, you sometimes left messages for them on the user page instead of the user talk page. E.g. in this case here, or here. Please only leave these messages on the user talk page. Thanks! – NJD-DE (talk) 21:53, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Njd-de: Oh wow, thanks, I'll make sure not to repeat that. tw^sabin 21:54, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. Btw your ping didn't work. I'm too lazy to explain in my own words right now, so copied the following from Template:Ping fix:

Unfortunately, that method does not work. The notifications system only informs a user when you link their username in the same saved edit as you successfully sign your post. A ping cannot be fixed in a later edit by adding your signature or fixing a botched username. Instead, reference the user by adding [[User:Example]] to an edit summary, or use one of the other methods at Help:Fixing failed pings.

Let me know if you have any questions, and happy editing! – NJD-DE (talk) 22:04, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Njd-de: Thanks for that too, very enlightening! tw^sabin 22:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)

Moved to Talk:Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)

– tw^sabin 22:28, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting at Holly Williams Talk page

Resolved

– (link) tw^sabin 22:33, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please see question about the birth year of Holly Williams, journalist.

Chesapeake77 (talk) 21:26, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

		The Original Barnstar
		For dutifully and quickly resolving the mess at Talk:QAnon/GA1. It is already a contentious article and all the help we can get is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Etriusus 05:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My reason to edit

Moved to User talk:Statistics.India § February 2022

– tw^sabin 21:24, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You can do as you will

...with regard to removing in-text notes, but other editors have routinely thanked me for them. Often, when editing, one is in the markup, a diversion to Talk is inconvenient, and the note can be removed after the issue is resolved. (Such notes therefore make tags the fewer.)

I wish at least you would consider pausing, and discussing, rather than doing such a deletion, in a venue where academic quality work has been going on for days. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:558:2116:D61F:ECC0:1821 (talk) 23:45, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker)No, Twsabin was correct to remove that. Your long comment was inappropriate. The article is not the place to leave working notes. No-one will see them unless they actually edit the section, whereas on the talk page they would be visible to anyone, and would serve as a history of why things were changed. And once you have been undone you should have followed WP:BRD rather than restoring it. Meters (talk) 23:55, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And the point is just that—to aid editors taking the time to go into the section to work, giving them relevant information that will aid in improving the section. And while in-text notes (the markup technology for which, from what I understand, exists for such use) are easily targetable to the very point where attention is needed, attempting to likewise target in Talk is much more cumbersome (and is very often ignored).

I never object to removal of a note by those coming in to edit, and addressing problems. I do object to drive-by reversions where no other constructive work is done. Otherwise no comment re WP:BRD, because there is literally no end to discussions that focus on guidelines with which other's are imperfectly complying. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:558:2116:D61F:ECC0:1821 (talk) 00:03, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You used hidden text to add something which looks very much like a start of a talk page discussion. WP:HIDDEN says that Using [hidden text] as a talk page is an inappropriate use thereof. I appreciate that your intentions are good, and the issue isn't with what you wrote, just where. Maybe next time make a shorter hidden text note such as "X information still missing", and also start a talk section (don't see it as a an unnecessary diversion please, talk pages are very important), to make other editors aware that something needs work, and to enable them to give feedback. How would someone now respond to your hidden text notice? ...it would have to be on the talk page regardless. tw^sabin 07:44, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deprodding of Australian Auto Sport Alliance

I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from Australian Auto Sport Alliance, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}} back to the page. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! A7V2 (talk) 00:38, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@A7V2: Thanks for the notice. I'm not going to nominate. The added references are fine. I wasn't able to find such references myself. tw^sabin 00:45, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

reverts

I saw that @spinninceres encouraged you to block my edits with @willondon. Please don't. I wrote on his page about how destructive the heavy handed revertions are and the complaints that don't stand up. This is not facile referencing to bullying as I saw in some of your notes. I wonder if you have a conflict of interest? I've already tried to see if @willondon could be kept off me since it's awful to be edited that heavily for reasons I don't trust. The only positive was adding in bad punctuation as upstander is widely used as one word these days.Factsforsure44 (talk) 17:04, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]