User talk:Talvin
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Direction Appreciated Award:
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:
--Revanche (talk|contribs) 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.... Talvin (talk) 20:03, 12 February 2022 (EST)
Humor and Orphanages
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: . I lol'd at your comment on that accidental twitter reference, and that vibe is always appreciated.
The other thing I wanted to mention was that I had noticed your 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. -BobTheZombie (talk) 11:22, 18 February 2022 (EST)
- 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 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!
- Talvin (talk) 11:35, 18 February 2022 (EST)
Removing Cleanup Tags
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 {{cleanup}} 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:
- 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! 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.