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Umm, hey, I wanted to have 2fa on my account—just for security. I'm not anyone important but H:2FA said that anyone could have it unless there is "no reason not to grant one", and so I go to that other page to request 2 Factor Auth tester permissions on wikimedia to realise I don't have a userpage made there... I thought that might be grounds for rejection? I was under the impression that my English wiki userpage showed up by default if I didn't have a userpage, I think it might've said something like that when I created my en.wiki userpage... Umm so anyway, I thought I would just copy the source code from my en.wiki userpage and make my wikimedia userpage from that... and that triggered an anti-spam filter which asked me contact an administrator to explain what I was trying to do. I hope this is how you're supposed to do that. Uhmm, yea so I just wanted to enable 2fa on my account. Do I even need a talkpage on metawiki to get approved? Should I try to see if there's some option to set my en.wiki userpage as a global default on all other wikis? Make a new userpage on wikimedia? Sorry to bother you this sounds stupid and I should probably look around myself but I'm new and this is all pretty confusing and complicated looking. I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 10:47, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. To my knowledge, you don't have to have a Meta user page in order to receive 2FA. Don't worry about it, and just follow the instructions in the template. The stewards will find you – they can see your global contributions (your contributions across all MediaWiki projects). And welcome! Katie^talk 16:34, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll do that. And also go through the other things. Thank you! I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 06:30, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. FYI, your username is not showing up in your signature (here). No worries if that is by design. --RegentsPark (comment) 19:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh... thank you for telling me, but I’ve no clue why that is. I did sign with four tildes after the comment. There’s no way I accidentally deleted a part of it.

It might be a bug hehe? Idk but I did mean to sign my name there. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 01:12, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Probably a bug. BTW, your comment made a lot of sense, so thanks! --RegentsPark (comment) 01:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's very kind hehe. I was a bit nervous commenting because everybody was in the midst of a serious and thorough conversation about nationalities across the subcontinent through independence but I couldn't... see the point of adding sumn like that in the first place lol. Looking back it, I have a concern about unambiguity, I think I should've mentioned that I only support excluding nationality, citizenship, etc. if it can be correctly inferred from birthplace. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 15:28, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resubmission

Hi there, re: this, if content you've previously submitted has disappeared from an article, please check the article's edit history to find out why. In this case, Fylindfotberserk removed the the |alma_mater= content here, explaining pretty clearly, "Not for non-graduates as per template documentation". If we look at Template:Infobox person, we can read the |alma_mater= parameter instructions and find out why. In this case: "It is usually not relevant to include either parameter for non-graduates". Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:19, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I’m so sorry. I read it off the top and didn’t notice that it said ‘either’ shouldn’t usually be included for non-graduates.

I’d seen |education= be used for non-graduates (though in fairness dropping out of Harvard was more relevant to the Mark Zuckerberg or the Bill Gates articles, than Rajput's and DTU) and thought the parameter would be appropriate use here. Part of me was thinking it was relevant (at least loosely) because his college was already there in the infobox since earlier edirs. I’ll discuss future edits and changes to this on the talkpage before doing them. Adding his college to the infobox (under |alma_mater= at least) wasn’t really my edit—I wanted to set it straight that he didn’t graduate.

Sorry again, resubmitting it under |education= was lowkey disruptive; I need to read these things more carefully. I'll exercise more caution moving onwards. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 18:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

European beewolf

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please respect the spelling conventions, where an article is written in UK English use those spellings. So no “ize” instead of “ise” or dropping the u in behaviour. As the article about the European Beewolf is about an European species written in UK English that’s how it should be edited. Otherwise thanks for your constructive edits. Quetzal1964 (talk) 22:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I did respect the dominant convention, which was American English when I copy-edited the article; the article was not written in British English, @Quetzal1964. '-yze' and dropping the 'u' in behaviour were the dominant spelling used and I changed the one '-yse' I saw to make it consistent with the rest of them. I only edited §Biology, and didn't pay much attention to the British connections in the article; I presumed someone else would figure out MOS:TIES if that was something that needed to be figured out. Thank you for doing that. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 05:10, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the article was mixed in its spelling style but I would say that British English was the predominant variant used and that I was as guilty as any other editor of mixing this up (e.g. "mold" rather than "mould"). I see that you have decided to use "Commonwealth English" in your edits for the article. Quetzal1964 (talk) 07:24, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Checking the edit history, I believe that one 'paralysed' was the only instance of Commonwealth spelling in that entire article, @Quetzal1964, I don't see how it was predominantly British in spelling. I neither have much experience applying MOS:TIES nor do I see a strong national tie to Britain—it just has a range there—but what slight connection there is, there is, and so I don't oppose your decision. But then the same connection should also apply to the southern African British colonies as this wasp has a range up till there. I thought Commonwealth English would be unproblematic—it's pretty much British English. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Morning, you misunderstand me "Commonwealth English" is fine, I was just noting that you had used that variant which as you say, is almost identical to British English. Thanks. Quetzal1964 (talk) 08:12, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, hehe~ I thought you wanted me to explain myself or my rationale. No problem! —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 08:16, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'llbeyourbeach. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Aspic at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! _signed,SpringProof ^talk 20:55, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, @SpringProof and other copyeditors ^^ It reads so much better now.

That final paragraph in the lead sounds WP:EDITORIAL and MOS:FLOWERY. I fixed up some other small things I saw; maybe I'll fact check that paragraph later and phrase it better. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 15:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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