User talk:GreenMeansGo

Movement of my Sandbox to Draft:Hybrid Club

I noticed you moved my Sandbox content to Draft:Hybrid. Why was this done? I no longer seem to be able to resubmit changes. Your rationale for rejecting my article didn't make sense. How is my submission any different than for the following similarly written Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2/1_game_forcing?Papatoad (talk) 22:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey Papatoad. Draft "space" is generally the correct place for AfC submissions. This is a technical detail and you should be able to edit normally, although you need to edit it in the "place" it's been moved to. The problem with the article you are basing you draft off of, is that it likely fails the criteria that Wikipedia is not a how-to guide. Accordingly, I have nominated that article for deletion. There are many many niche sites that explain card games, video games, all kinds of games in intricate detail. But Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a how to guide. Compare the article for Poker, which examines the game as an encyclopedia should, without going into intricate detail in the sense that a poker guide book would. TimothyJosephWood 22:34, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Your conclusion that my submission is a "How to Guide" about how to play a game is incorrect. It is about one of many bidding system systems used in the game of bridge. This is clarified in the opening sentence. As such, the article defines key elements of the Hybrid Club bidding system to set them apart from elements of other bidding systems. I am a bridge teacher and this article in no way teaches someone how to play the game of bridge. If you could tell me how my article differs from the Wiki page I referred to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2/1_game_forcing), it might help me to know what corrective steps I need to take.Papatoad (talk) 23:55, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

If you disagree with my opinion, you may resubmit your draft, and it may be reviewed by another volunteer. TimothyJosephWood 00:51, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I have to go to my sandbox to find a link to my draft article. Shouldn't I be able to get my draft in a more direct manner. My sandbox has the following statement: "19:04, 31 January 2017 Timothyjosephwood (talk | contribs) moved page User:Papatoad/sandbox to Draft:Hybrid Club without leaving a redirect (Move AfC submission to draft space without leaving XNR) (revert)". What does it mean to move a page without leaving a redirect? Did you omit to do something?Papatoad (talk) 15:04, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Baltimore railroad strike of 1877

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:28, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the good work! I only made one minor change, putting the digression into estimates of the strength of the 5th back into a footnote, since it jumps around chronologically and discusses estimates taking place at several different points in the story. TimothyJosephWood 14:49, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome - happy to help. Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:51, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for suggestions and please give me your opinion, I will appreciate a lot

Dear Timothyjosephwood, I seriously appreciated your comments and suggestions on the discussion that regards my case - I found this statement "Subject-matter experts are well-equipped to help articles achieve a truly neutral point of view by identifying gaps in articles where important ideas are not discussed" here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Expert_editors - and I think it really applies to a big gap in the "Empathy" voice, specifically the "intercultural empathy" approach that was lacking completelty, and on which I am studying since 1988. I wrote several books about that, and I thought it would be good to make a contribution, in a fair and balanced way. In this contribution I brought 4 references on the topics, one refers to a model that has been published in a book in 2004 - and this concept is cited in several books and articles. I had it deleted as you can see here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empathy&diff=762231586&oldid=761391400 - so that now Wikipedia users and readers will not have any clue about what "intercultural empathy" is, and will not even know that it exists. I found with Google Scholar that this approach has already been subject of interest in about 60 books and papers all over the world, verifiable here https://scholar.google.it/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=it&cites=17930119968961948430,14178877031202502370&as_sdt=5 What is your sincere opinion about this delete, what is it morally good to to in this specific case, what would wikipedia founders do if they were aware of this case?--Culturalresearch (talk) 12:50, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Just in case you actually come back and see this, as I said at the Teahouse, if you want to contribute at some point in the future in your subject area, you should take great care to avoid the appearance that you are using Wikipedia as a means of promotion. Abusing multiple accounts to spam references to your own work is basically the precise opposite of that.

It may have occurred to you that you are the first person in the English speaking world to have the idea of spamming your own work on Wikipedia in the hope that someone, at some point, will check out the references, and pick up a copy of your book. Rest assured, you are not. In fact, it's such a common thing that we have whole groups of websites universally blacklisted from the entire encyclopedia for exactly that reason.

If at some point you decide to come back, and do so for the actual purpose of improving the project, I'm sure you can ask for the Wikipedia:Standard offer, in six months. TimothyJosephWood 13:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello GreenMeansGo,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 798 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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You're a qualified social worker - can your skills help the Futurist situation?

How does one solve issues like Futurist110 has? If you read my initial post on the RD talk page, the guy has a dread of the remotest possibility (and I do mean the remotest possibility) of fathering a child he needs to support. And he himself admits as much. You're a qualified social worker - can you put your skills to use in dissuading him from expecting that we wikipedians can do the slightest thing about this major issue of his (answering his questions will not help the underlying issue here, we're not dealing with a rational individual) - and somehow convince him to do what at least one editor does pretty much every time he asks such a question - as in, get professional help? Does your social work training aid in such situations? I just want this problem solved.

Note that he has a long history of "fatherhood fears" questions, most of which are completely non-trollish, yet pointless for us to answer, even if, factually, we can. E.g. his question on "sterilization failure insurance" or some form of pre-sex "child-support waiver agreement" with the woman he wants to have sex with, was by no means trolling (the former could be pointlessly answered without giving legal or medical advice, though the latter, all we could say was "see a lawyer"), but again, reflects his deep-seated issues, which we cannot solve, even if we answer hundreds of such questions of his. Lately, he has started to go off the deep end, as you yourself saw. Which is what prompted me to raise the issue on the RD talk page. See also his question on self-harming in front of his child. Again, what did they teach you in your social work studies, and can it help in any way here? Eliyohub (talk) 14:05, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

In the case that the user does in fact have a serious mental health issue, and in fact isn't a clever but exceptionally bored troll, probably the best thing that Wikipedia can do for him is to decidedly not act like a surrogate and poor substitute for the actual medical/psychological/legal help that the person would need, and need in the real world. To that end, probably the best thing someone like you or I could do is to collapse such discussions, and insist that the user comply with our terms of use, in seeking professional help from professionals, and not Wikipedia editors. Since the community seems insistent on doing nothing else, that's probably the extent of what can be done. TimothyJosephWood 14:17, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

I concur. I think policy needs to include the mentally ill asking these sorts of questions, which we cannot solve, as prohibited along the same reasoning as the "no medical advice" rules. I have said again and again that we cannot help him, he needs to go elsewhere and see a professional. Just curious, what makes you think he's a troll, as opposed to a user with some sort of pathological fixation of a mental health type issue? As I noted, the rest of his work on Wikipedia seems mostly productive, he does a lot of the sourcing for the main page DYK section, so I'm cautious about calling "troll" here, particularly as his past questions on this topic have not been openly trollish, (though still pathologically obsessive about this fear of his, and equally pointless to answer). So what makes you tilt towards "troll" as opposed to "mentally unwell"? Just curious, I know it's of no practical relevance. (And I fully agree that we should NOT try to be any sort of substitute for a proper, real life, mental health professional, and should hat any such questions. The most I was hoping from you, and probably not possible, was to drive some insight into the guy to acknowledge his issues, and GET proper help). Eliyohub (talk) 16:04, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

He may not be a troll. He may be both a troll and mentally ill. There may be no way to tell definitively. TimothyJosephWood 16:15, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Fringe

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Slatersteven (talk) 18:49, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

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SHOWstudio

Hi, I'm not trying to advertise the SHOWstudio shop, I'm trying to show the multifaceted history that has contributed to its current content, which includes MACHINE-A, but without detracting from the original project that launched the shop as well as the fashion illustrations they continue to promote. I'll cut down on the wording if you think it sounds like advertising, and I'm sorry you feel that way. Mustardcreams (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Mustardcreams, first, you are fairly obviously someone who is either in the employ of the company, or is otherwise closely related to it. Likewise, your intentions are fairly obviously to promote the company and it's founder. You are strongly encouraged to review our policy on conflicts of interest, disclose any close ties you have to the subjects, and stop editing all together on topic with which you have a COI. Failure to follow this policy may result in loss of editing privileges. Further promotional material added to Wikipedia will be removed. TimothyJosephWood 14:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm just trying to get the facts on Wikipedia because before the page was a complete mess. Is there anything about the wording you find particularly promotional or is it the overall tone of the post in general? Mustardcreams (talk) 14:14, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm interested in SHOWstudio and it's something that I've done research on and these are all incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustardcreams (talk • contribs) 14:16, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

The entire tone of your edits is promotional. Additionally, I've been around here for almost ten years, and you are not the first person to get on Wikipedia and try to promote their company, claiming they're "just trying to set the record straight" by heaping unrepentant praise on a subject they just happen to have an interest in. TimothyJosephWood 14:19, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Okay, super. I'll change the whole tone of every single edit. Thanks for the pro tip!! :) :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustardcreams (talk • contribs) 14:24, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

amenments which I believe you made to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helensburgh

Hello Timothyjosephwood

I am very much on a steep learning curve as far as Wikipedia is concerned, so please forgive me if I make mistakes in what follows.

Earlier today I posted a request for help on the Wikipedia help page regarding a modification which I had made unsuccessfully to the template on the page on Helensburgh (my home town for nearly 60 years) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helensburgh. If I understand the system correctly, you are the person who made the last amendment, although Lotje may also have been involved (and I am uncertain as to whether I should be copying this to her).

I had spent a considerable portion of this afternoon inserting photographs into the article and, although I previewed them as I went along, I failed to save them after each preview. I am therefore suspicious that the amendment which you made in answer to my request to the helpdesk resulted in the deletion of all the photographs which I had tried inserting – am I correct?

If I am correct, it would appear to me that I should have been saving all the changes that I made during the afternoon much more frequently than I actually did. If I am not correct, I should be grateful if you could tell me if I have breached some part of Wikipedia etiquette, perhaps by trying to insert too many photographs into an article. I don't want to try putting the photos back in again only to find that they might be deleted again by someone else. I had not appreciated that more than one person can edit the same page at the same time.

I see that you have made some comments regarding my changes. I removed the original static image and replaced it with a new one because the original one was out of date – this was the result of considerable changes which have been made to the town centre in the last couple of years.

Towards the end of the article there is a section entitled "Other Prominent Residents". I was not responsible for drawing up this list and, to be frank, it includes many people of whom I have never heard – and I should say that I am a former chairman of Helensburgh Community Council and a former chairman of Helensburgh Heritage Trust, and currently still treasurer of both. My preference would be to prune this list considerably, but I do not wish to offend whoever drew up this list in the first place.

Any help that you can give me on all these matters will be very much appreciated. Thank you!Stewartnbl (talk) 19:48, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey Stewartnbl. You're right that Wikipedia is an exceedingly steep learning curve sometimes, and after a long time editing, I still run into this when I find an unfamiliar problem.

If I understand you correctly, it seems like what happened is that you made a lot of edits without saving, and since I made another edit before you saved, you basically lost your work. Unfortunately, this is more of a software problem than an etiquette one. It's called an edit conflict, and there are two main ways I would recommend to avoid it:

1. Edit individual sections instead of whole articles. Two users can edit different sections of the same article at the same time without conflicting, but if you are editing the whole article, if any user edits any section during that time, you won't be able to save.
2. Minimize the time between clicking "edit" and clicking "save". Sometimes this can be done best by making small incremental edits, instead of large sweeping ones. If you do need to make a large edit, like inserting a complicated table, or something else that might require a bit of trial and error, it may be best to start it in your sandbox (click that red link to start your sandbox page), and then copy it into the article when you are done.

Sorry if I caused a mix up. If there's any way I can be of help feel free to let me know. TimothyJosephWood 20:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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Give me reason

I just asked you to provide valid reason for proposing my article to get deleted. But you are threatening me. This is not the right way . If you want to threaten me saying that i have included comments against you, you may move forward . Before that tell me the reason for proposing my article to get deleted. I have given many references. Don't speak as you think. Not all my articles were referred for deletion. So mind your words . Without having proper reason you may ask to delete my article. If I ask against that you are threatening me saying that i may attain harassment. Edson Frainlar (talk) 13:28, 10 February 2017 (UTC)