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A barnstar for your efforts

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Awarded for your unending efforts in tidying up citations in articles. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 28 February 2023

Cdjp1 (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Meekrton (16:26, 2 March 2023)

Hello there, I was trying to make a page on John Parker Romo (Current XFL Kicker) the football player. How much experience do I need to publish it? Hope you are having a good day. --Meekrton (talk) 16:26, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Meekrton: Hi there! To create an article and not have it deleted, you'll need to abide by a myriad of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Help:Your first article is great resource. Experience will help you learn things such as WP:SECTIONS, and WP:EASYREFBEGIN. After you read WP:NBASIC and add more independent reliable sources that provide significant coverage of Romo (his teams' web sites and his Twitter feed aren't independent), I suggest moving User:Meekrton/sandbox to Draft:John Parker Romo and adding {{subst:submit}} to the top so it can be reviewed, improved, and hopefully moved to become an article. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 17:32, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Blitzfan51 (17:58, 2 March 2023)

hello. i am a new guy and i need help adding myself to the Star Wars wiki project editors thing. can you help? i'm a bit lost. --Blitzfan51 (talk) 17:58, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Blitzfan51: Hi there! Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars#How to help states "Please sign your name below and introduce yourself in the monthly roll call section of the talk page." In other words:

Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/Participants, click "Edit source", follow the instructions that start with "To add yourself to the list of members...", add an edit summary, and then click the blue "Publish changes" button.
Go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Star Wars, click "Add topic", use subject "Roll Call - March 2023", and type a message introducing yourself and how you would like to improve Star Wars-related articles on Wikipedia. Then add an edit summary and click the blue "Publish changes" button.

GoingBatty (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

works perfectly. Thanks. Blitzfan51 (talk) 00:17, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Blitzfan51 (18:01, 2 March 2023)

and how do i add user boxes? --Blitzfan51 (talk) 18:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Blitzfan51:

Find a user box you like, such as {{User Star Wars WikiProject}} or something from Wikipedia:Userboxes/Galleries.
Go to User:Blitzfan51 and click "Edit source"
Type the userbox template name.
Click "Show preview" and ensure the userbox looks good.
Click "Publish changes".

Feel free to go to anyone's user page, click "Edit source", and look what they've done to display userboxes. Just don't click "Publish changes" on anyone else's user page.

Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 22:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It worked! Thank you so much and hope you have a nice day. :) Blitzfan51 (talk) 00:11, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Blitzfan51 (18:04, 2 March 2023)

oh, and what are the guidelines for making an article about a youtuber? --Blitzfan51 (talk) 18:04, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Blitzfan51: Creating a new Wikipedia article can be challenging, especially if you do not have a lot of experience editing existing Wikipedia articles. To learn how to edit, I suggest you start at Help:Introduction. I suggest spending a significant amount of time editing existing articles to hone your skills. Once you're ready to create an article, you would gather multiple independent reliable sources that have provided significant coverage of the YouTuber, and determine whether they meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". See Wikipedia:WikiProject YouTube/Notability for an essay specific to YouTubers. If so, you could follow the instructions at Help:Your first article, and be prepared for a process that will include waiting for review, rejections, and rewrites before an article is created. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 22:14, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Blitzfan51 (talk) 00:17, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

alright. i'll read that. Blitzfan51 (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question about BattyBot's Task 30

I hope you're doing well and I hope you don't mind if I ask a quick question; how often does BattyBot run task 30, where it adds the living parameter to Template:WikiProject Biography on talk pages? It came up in a discussion where I mentioned the big back-and-forth between a large number of pages showing up over the past few weeks in Category:Biography articles without living parameter before being (mostly) cleared out by BattyBot (thank you for that task, by the way). - Aoidh (talk) 07:56, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Aoidh: Hi there! I run the bot almost daily, when I'm monitoring Category:Biography articles without living parameter and the other categories listed on my user page. GoingBatty (talk) 15:51, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the quick response. - Aoidh (talk) 21:28, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I noticed you contribute significantly to the page for Yawgoog Scout Reservation. I'd really like to get in touch!! Z3$ty0r4ng (talk) 15:40, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Z3$ty0r4ng: I went to Yawgoog 11 times as a Scout and JASM, and have lots of good memories of Yawgoog. GoingBatty (talk) 15:49, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's fantastic! I thought I had a lot of experience with 6 weeks as a Scout and working Nature Staff in 2018. Thanks for making the page so great. Z3$ty0r4ng (talk) 15:53, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from XlycanX (08:19, 11 March 2023)

I wanted to add something to a page, but instead I accidentally created another new page. What to do now.? --XlycanX (talk) 08:19, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

XlycanX, you created your user page. That's okay. Just go ahead and add the content that you wanted to add. But please add a reliable source before doing so. — Nythar (💬-❄️) 08:24, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from XlycanX (07:55, 12 March 2023)

How to add citation to a page.? Sorry, I'm new here. --XlycanX (talk) 07:55, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@XlycanX: Welcome! No need to apologize - we were all new here once! I suggest reviewing WP:EASYREFBEGIN. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 21:46, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Empty Trivia setion

Hey, I've noticed an empty Trivia section tagged with {{Empty section}} (The Diet of Worms) and was thinking of your bot's task 62 when I saw it. That might be also worth removing per WP:TRIVIA. Gonnym (talk) 10:29, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonnym: Good idea!

Doing... GoingBatty (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonnym

Done - 20 articles edited. GoingBatty (talk) 17:02, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction & Question

Hello, it’s nice to meet you virtually! My name is Isabel and I’m a senior working on Wikipedia for my capstone project. In full transparency, I’m still learning the ropes and could use some guidance from Wiki experts.

I noticed you contributed to an article I’ve been working on adding new literature to — Food labelling and advertising law (Chile) — and I was wondering if you might be able to give me any input on improving my contributions? Or any advice you could share with a new member of Wikipedia? I look forward to learning from you. NUstudent1316 (talk) 18:23, 16 March 2023 (UTC)