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| − | == Direction Appreciated Award: == | + | == Archives == |
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| − | For assisting Allterboyant regarding his question on how to spotlight a potential need for an edit (via Discord), as well as encouraging their confidence in editing:
| + | [[User talk:Talvin/Archives/2022-1]] |
| − | : [[File:DA.jpg|Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
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| − | --[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 19:50, 12 February 2022 (EST)
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| − | :Thank you! I will pin it next to my Master Punster Ribbon...left that here somewhere...or maybe I left it on Dieron.... [[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 20:03, 12 February 2022 (EST)
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| − | == Humor and Orphanages == | + | == Helping Hand Award == |
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| − | At risk of over-inflating your ego, I wanted to give you a second award, one which I have never seen bestowed on anyone, the Good Humor award: [[File:GH.jpg|Good Humor Award, 1st ribbon]]. I lol'd at [https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Sean_Tarkinton&diff=prev&oldid=764661 your comment on that accidental twitter reference], and that vibe is always appreciated.
| + | [[File:HH.jpg|Helping Hand Award, 1st ribbon]]<br> |
| | + | Thanks for keeping an eye out for new users. I'm certain I would not have caught that in a timely enough manner.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 09:45, 14 July 2022 (EDT) |
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| − | The other thing I wanted to mention was that I had noticed your [[User:Talvin/Project Orphanage|Project Orphanage]], and I thought that was a super cool idea... Is there any way I can help out? It would be great to give some love to those pages that are floating around in the [[deep periphery]], so to speak. -[[User:BobTheZombie|BobTheZombie]] ([[User talk:BobTheZombie|talk]]) 11:22, 18 February 2022 (EST)
| + | == Pity == |
| − | : Thank you for both! Project Orphanage is a collaborative thing, and I have most of the pages marked "Permission to Edit" (I need to add that to all of them.) It is not an official project, so I keep it in my userspace, is all. I am *so* close to getting it down to where [[Special:LonelyPages]] will show all the orphans, not just the first thousand: when I started it ended in the E's, this morning it is in the early T's. As for how to help, plenty to choose from, this list is not exclusive:
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| − | :* Grab anything you see in the [[User:Talvin/Project_Orphanage#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous section]] and work on paring them down. Some, like Battles and Planetary Governors, are just *tedious*, and sometimes you have to fix up the pages they need to be linked from. Some, like Deandra Lowe's many rides, I am at a loss. The Clan Loremasters would be quick and easy.
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| − | :* While [[User:Talvin/Project Orphanage/Wolf's Dragoons Roster]] is likely to just be with us for a long time (as of this writing, just over 1 in 39 pages on the Wiki are linked from that page, and I am ''not'' done yet), the spacecraft section up at the top is another one of those "tedious, but very achievable" goals for P:O.
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| − | :* This is a short list, but it is on its own page because it is very important (at least to me): [[User:Talvin/Project Orphanage/Orphaned Fiction]] We have some pages about fiction, primarily from the old Battlecorps site, that are not linked from anywhere. I know BrokenMnemonic has been trying to link some of them in, but I feel it is especially important that we put those forward, in hopes they eventually get reprinted and not forgotten.
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| − | :* Or look around and find something that interests you! Adopt an Orphan!
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| − | :[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 11:35, 18 February 2022 (EST)
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| − | ==Removing Cleanup Tags==
| + | Sucks, dude. Sorry to see you go. [[User:Madness Divine|Madness Divine]] ([[User talk:Madness Divine|talk]]) 09:48, 14 July 2022 (EDT) |
| − | I am anticipating that someone is going to ask me this question, so I am going to be proactive and answer it ahead of time: why am I pulling <nowiki>{{cleanup}}</nowiki> tags off articles?
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| − | I am choosing articles to look at more or less at random from [[Category:Cleanup]], that much is true, but my decision to pull the tag is ''not'' random. My process is as follows:
| + | : Wow, just saw this because of your post, Madness Divine. It's unfortunate Talvin decided to just withdraw completely. The wiki was certainly better off with his efforts.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 09:51, 14 July 2022 (EDT) |
| − | # Look at the article. Is it obvious on the face of it that it needs cleanup (as opposed to improved references, which is a more specific tag)? Then I leave it, or else work on it, as time and ability permit.
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| − | # Look at the talk page for that article. The tag template ''says'' "Please discuss this issue on the talk page" but, sadly, that is rarely done. If I find discussion of cleanup there, I go as with #1 above.
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| − | # Look at the history. How long ago in both time and number of times edited was that tag applied? Any notes in the revision summaries? If it is a recent add, I can reach out to the editor. If it is from 2014-2016, that's...pretty common. Seen them from 2009. I don't know what they were worrying about in 2009. I doubt they remember either.
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| − | # By now I have either figured out the problem, or I am just pulling the tag. If someone re-adds it, I am not going to get mad, I am just going to send them a message asking, "OK, can you explain the issue you see that I missed?"
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| − | As you can see, by now I have had to do a lot of detective work to figure out 11 characters on a page of text. If you are adding "cleanup" to an article, or any of the similar tags, please ''please'' '''''PLEASE''''' do us poor workhorse editors a favor and give a clue as to what bothered you about it. Thanks! [[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 17:18, 1 March 2022 (EST)
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