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Question from Divine Deimos (23:42, 3 October 2024)

how do I add a link into a word --Divine Deimos (talk) 23:42, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Divine Deimos, do [[page name]]. :) Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 05:45, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Divine Deimos (00:02, 4 October 2024)

are references talking about what its sources are (to refer too) or is it about references where it has been shown in the media (referenced) --Divine Deimos (talk) 00:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks ;)

And it reminded me to be in touch to apologise for never doing NPP School properly after you set it up for me. I had the best intentions, but ended up needing a bit of a wikibreak for a while. Thanks nonetheless for your effort, which I appreciate. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 17:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonathan Deamer, thanks for the message :) - I took a bit of a wikibreak for the past few months, but I'm getting back into it over the next few days. I was just pondering about draftifying that and then I refreshed the queue to see it was a draft. Cheers, Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 17:06, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ordinaryisabel (08:14, 5 October 2024)

hi! i wanted to ask about writing an article for a page that already exists as a redirect. specifically, i was looking to create a page about Eric Clapton's recent album release Meanwhile, however the article title Meanwhile (Eric Clapton album) already exists as a redirect to the artist page. i wouldn't want to edit the existing page so as to not bypass the draft review process. how should i go about this? thank you!Ordinaryisabel (talk) --Ordinaryisabel (talk) 08:14, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sixtyframesindia (15:27, 5 October 2024)

hi, how to create new page? --Sixtyframesindia (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Training Slot

Hi User Zippybonzo, I hope this message finds you well! As I'm looking to improve my skills and contribute more effectively, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to learn from you. Please let me know if you have any available slots, and I can adjust my schedule to fit yours. Thank you for your time

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@DelphiLore, heya, which training program were you talking about? Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 07:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Zippybonzo, I was referring to the anti-vandalism training. DelphiLore (talk) 14:00, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DelphiLore cool, I'll setup the course soon for you. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 07:00, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please be careful

Hi, Zippy. We spoke a bit on the NPP discord server earlier today. It's great that you're enthusiastic about cleaning up copyright issues. But I was looking at the CCI case you've been working, and I'm worried that you're only putting the articles through earwig and accepting the results at face value. For example, you cleared the article Varmahlíð. However, the article contains copyright violations from the cited web source. I'll clear them up tomorrow, if I can. I don't have the right to ask you to stay away from copyright cleanup, and nor do I want to, but please move slowly. I gave you the link to WP:NOTEARWIG earlier, but I really need to know now that you've read it. And if you'd like an easier CCI, let me know. There's one I'm working on that basically seems to involve rewriting like 500 disambiguation pages. Stuff like that might be easier for you to start with. I'm one of the newer CCI editors, so I've been in your shoes- this area can take quite a lot of getting used to! Don't feel the need to rush things, especially when you're just starting out. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:56, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian - thanks for the message, could you direct me to the easier ones that would be a better starting point for me to learn the status quo's etc. I do intend to become a more active contributor in that area, but I'm not super confident with CCI atp so an easier starting point would be nice :) Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 08:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Learning the status quo is much less important than learning how to do the job, and learning how to do the job properly.

Right now, if you just wants a lot of experience, go to page 7 or 8 of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Werldwayd, look for edits they made to disambiguation pages, and then rewrite the disambiguation pages to be policy compliant. Werldwayd created disambiguation pages by copy pasting the first sentence from a subject's article into the entry, but without following the CWW rules. You can solve this in two ways: by WP:RIA, or by treating them as any other copyright violation and removing the text. Due to the fact that disambiguation pages are meant to list the bare minimum about of information needed to identify a subject, go for the latter.

I'd also advise not marking any diffs as clean for your first few months. It's what I did, and it worked well for me. In fact, I still don't mark articles as clean until I am intimately familiar with a given case. I just make a note, then ask for a second opinion or come back at the end of a case and re-evaluate. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 19:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Still reading through this but just noting that by status quo I meant the general procedure. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 19:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Moneytrees/Money's guide to CCI Sennecaster (Chat) 13:06, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GRAVEDANCING

Reminder that these types of comments are not necessary or helpful and may be considered WP:GRAVEDANCING. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was quite snarky for me to leave that comment, and I probably shouldn’t have, but it didn’t seem incredibly snarky to me at the time. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 19:24, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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