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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, @Kj cheetham:! Csoconn (talk) 15:46, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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...are people. Any signature with "bot" in it is an automated program. For example, ClueBot automatically reverts (reverses) edits it determines are vandalism, and leaves a message on the purportedly offending editor's Talk page. There are false positives when editors add content in good faith (meaning they believe what they did improves the article), but ClueBot 'sees' it as vandalism. This can happen when an editor adds content without adding a supporting reference at the same time. David notMD (talk) 17:52, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm at least 90% sure I'm not a bot at least. Maybe 80% sure, as I do use a lot of scripts.... -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:11, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, Just a quick note to say please don't add/enable categories on draft pages as per WP:DRAFTNOCAT. The categories are only for published articles. Good up the good work otherwise though! -Kj cheetham (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry! Thank you for your help! There's a bit of a learning curve, but fun so far! :) Csoconn (talk) 22:03, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not to worry! Give me a shout if you need a hand. When you have time, it's probably worth at least skimming over WP:MOS and WP:MOSBIO. -Kj cheetham (talk) 23:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, thanks for being so welcoming! I'll definitely hit you up with Qs. And thanks for checking out some of my students' pages! They are really excited about the potential to have their projects meaningfully contribute to wikipedia, so I'm trying to make sure that I know enough to be able to advocate for their pages being edited and not quickly deleted! I'll check out those links - many thanks! Csoconn (talk) 00:21, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately there is quite a backlog for AFC at the moment, so some articles may take months to get reviewed. :( Reviewers often don't check them in any particular order. I'm not involved with AFC myself, but minor things I often see done imporperly on new articles include things like: including the person's name as a top level header at the top, using promotional "peakcock" language, using academic titles most of the time, sentance case of headings, using external links in the main body of the article, relying too much on primary sources, etc. Making sure the article is notable in the first place is more major though! -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:37, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. The reason I noticed the student articles was they were flagged up on my watchlist when the categories were added, as I keep an eye on things like Category:Women scientists. Let me know if there's any specific articles you'd like me to glance at though. -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:47, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much, that rules. I'll get back in touch once I'm in the office this week. Cheers! Csoconn (talk) 05:44, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ooooh, @Kj cheetham:, I actually do have a question! I'm not entirely sure I understand the workflow of sandbox --> draft --> the AfC committee. For instance, this draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tadashi_Fukami?action=edit (which came from a sandbox submission). I notice it doesn't have an AfC tag. Should it? Can I initiate that or is that for a volunteer above my level? Some of the draft pages have a thing saying "speed this up by flagging it for a project" (e.g., the women in STEM wiki project), but I don't see that option here. Why is that? Thank you for your help thus far!

Generally the sandbox is just for experimenting and trying out new things. More experienced editors typically would start a new article straight as a draft. Draft:Tadashi Fukami is not currently in the queue at all for review by WP:AFC. As the tag is missing for some reason, you need to go into edit source and add {{subst:submit}} to the very bottom of the draft to submit it. I'm not reviewing it myself, but I would say the list of publications is excessive - should only be a small sample of representative publications. It should focus more on the person. I see someone else already disabled the categories, but I also changed the section headers to sentance case. It's best to avoid refernces in the section headers too, as has been done for "Honors & awards". -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:43, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Helps a ton. I'm going to get through grading these projects and then go through and make some of these changes, hopefully later this week. Thanks for the many tips! Csoconn (talk) 05:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Mario Jump 83! 00:14, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MarioJump83 Thank you for your help! It's been great getting to learn more about the wikipedia community! Csoconn (talk) 00:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	For your activities tidying up draft biographical articles! Kj cheetham (talk) 00:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:U:Kj cheetham, you're very kind! It's been such a rewarding experience figuring out the ins and outs of wikipedia! Csoconn (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]