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== Direction Appreciated Award: ==
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== Archives ==
  
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:
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[[User talk:Talvin/Archives/2022-1]]
: [[File:DA.jpg|Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
 
--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 19:50, 12 February 2022 (EST)
 
: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)
 
  
== Humor and Orphanages ==
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== Helping Hand Award ==
  
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.
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[[File:HH.jpg|Helping Hand Award, 1st ribbon]]<br>
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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)
  
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)
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== 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:
 
:* 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.
 
:* 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.
 
:* 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. 
 
:* Or look around and find something that interests you! Adopt an Orphan!
 
:[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 11:35, 18 February 2022 (EST)
 
  
==Removing Cleanup Tags==
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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?
 
  
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:
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: 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.
 
# 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.
 
# 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. 
 
# 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?" 
 
 
 
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)
 
 
 
==Assistance Appreciated==
 
A bit overdue, but I appreciate the help with a handful of to-do lists.
 
:[[File:AA.jpg|Assistance Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]]
 
--[[User:Cache|Cache]] ([[User talk:Cache|talk]]) 18:43, 7 March 2022 (EST)
 
::Thank you!  You do a lot around here, and while I can't do your job, I do want to support you as I am able. --[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 18:45, 7 March 2022 (EST)
 
 
 
== Images vice Bull Shark ==
 
 
 
I strongly recommend moving your initial talk posts to [[Policy Talk:Images]], so that it is citable in later discussions. Your pitch can link to [[Bull Shark]] to highlight the example. (I'm speaking from experience, when it comes to re-finding old discussions.)--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 14:36, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
: Hmm. I was keeping it OUT of that for the moment because before I take it to a policy discussion, I want to have a solid ''example'', and there are clearly several issues to work out.  It feels more proper to keep discussions of how to improve the Bull Shark article (which is what we are doing to make it a good example) on that article's talk page.  Also keeps random editors from saying "What is he doing?" and messing with it too much.--[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 14:38, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
 
 
:: Aaaah, ok. Give it a go then.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 14:41, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
:::Definitely once it's a good, solid, ''referenced'' page (because it had no references), I will be moving the big-scale policy discussion to where you suggest, and pointing to it as example.--[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 14:43, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
 
 
== Siege of Hesperus II (2853) ==
 
 
 
Very well done. Please accept this Superior Article Award for your work on [[Siege of Hesperus II (2853)]].
 
: [[File:SupArt.jpg|Superior Article Award, 1st ribbon]]
 
This was an article too long missing from Sarna.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 09:06, 14 March 2022 (EDT)
 

Latest revision as of 09:51, 14 July 2022

Archives[edit]

User talk:Talvin/Archives/2022-1

Helping Hand Award[edit]

Helping Hand Award, 1st ribbon
Thanks for keeping an eye out for new users. I'm certain I would not have caught that in a timely enough manner.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 09:45, 14 July 2022 (EDT)

Pity[edit]

Sucks, dude. Sorry to see you go. Madness Divine (talk) 09:48, 14 July 2022 (EDT)

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.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 09:51, 14 July 2022 (EDT)