User talk:Missvain
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I really appreciate your work on this and other recent articles, both on Wikipedia and Wikidata. It's always satisfying to see other editors making improvements and I'm always glad to receive your "thanks". I do nevertheless have a couple of queries. I see you reintroduced the stub template on the article. With text running to 3289 B and "running text" to 1914 B, I would have thought the article could be considered start class. Other seasoned editors have recently removed stub templates from some of my articles which were in fact rather shorter than this one. Perhaps you could tell me which criteria you use to define a stub. If you look at WP:Stub, you will see that it starts by saying: "A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject." I would argue that the article on Drejer covers her in sufficient detail to be "encyclopedic", drawing on all the essentials from the sources I used (and there is hardly anything more which can be readily accessed). But I would be interested in hearing your views on this. I do aim for start class as far as possible in all my new articles.
Secondly, I usually try to introduce basic Wikidata details on all my new biographies using the "gadget". I see however that you replaced the information I added (even if it was identical). Is it worthwhile for me to use the gadget in future or will it simply be replaced within hours by you and your Wikidata colleagues? Perhaps my Wikidata time would be more usefully spent on adding profession details to the huge backlog of Wikidata biographies which have nothing in this slot. (All the women's biographies entered on Wikidata by the bot usually just have human and female.)
Enjoy your Sunday!--Ipigott (talk) 08:04, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
And thanks for all the draft articles you have improved and moved to mainspace. Quite an assignment!--Ipigott (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- What gadget are you talking about? Also, I guess I just see stubs as short articles and in 11 years of editing I never really cared to read the actual "description" of what a stub is defined as. If you want to remove my stub tags go for it, I don't care! :) Missvain (talk) 15:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for getting back to me on this. You can see the gadget here. If you download it, it allows you to add the basic Wikidata info while you are still working on the Wikipedia article. You can add all the data in one go, without the need to add one item at a time as when you work directly on Wikidata. I find it very useful. I know some other seasoned editors from Women in Red also make use of it.
- I can certainly understand that when working at full speed as you usually do, it may indeed be a good idea to add stub to what you consider to be a short article. I was a bit surprised in this case as your "thanks" was on my edit for removing the stub template which you then reintroduced. I'm pretty conscious of what is considered to be a stub as I have helped out with a number of contests on de-stubbing and article creation. But there are no hard and fast rules so your guess is as good as mine.--Ipigott (talk) 11:48, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- What gadget are you talking about? Also, I guess I just see stubs as short articles and in 11 years of editing I never really cared to read the actual "description" of what a stub is defined as. If you want to remove my stub tags go for it, I don't care! :) Missvain (talk) 15:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Precious three years!
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Nomination for merging of Template:Public art in Washington, D.C.
Template:Public art in Washington, D.C. has been nominated for merging with Template:Public art in the United States. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --Another Believer (Talk) 13:57, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Apache Arrow article
Hello, I am new to this part of Wikipedia, so please forgive if I have done this the wrong way.
You flagged this page as a conflict of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Apache_Arrow
Note that the subject of this article is Apache Arrow, a software project owned by the Apache Software Foundation. This foundation stewards hundreds of such projects, many of which are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apache_Software_Foundation_projects.
I am not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation. I wrote the article because I believe the project is important and that it meets the notability requirements of Wikipedia. I do not believe there is a COI, and I think you comment makes a reference that is not relevant to the subject of this article.
Thank you for your consideration. Again, apologies if I have failed to follow the appropriate protocol for responding to your comment.