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Hi Colonies Chris. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (56th to be exact), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 23:10, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Please note WP:JR. Dicklyon ( talk) 06:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
You made an edit at Wellshot Station. Can you take a look at Eric Ronald Inglis and see if it can be condensed, merged into Wellshot Station. Thanks. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 15:43, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
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for all the work you have done on western australian articles in the last 24 hours. appreciated. satusuro 23:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
yeah, well watching the whole of my watchlist go past day after day... - what ever happened to bots? (like the awb corrections to the way that Trove cites newspapers - you are fixing in effect each entry by hand - I though there were bots that could do that soert of stuff?).... satusuro 23:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
hell. oh well. satusuro 23:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Why did you remove the link to World War II with this edit? It seems like a reasonable link to me. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Likewise [1] [2] [3] [4] (for WW1 and/or WW2). Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
"The point of a link is to allow the reader to get more information about a subject that may be unfamiliar to them."
"For events as well known as the two world wars, it's really inconceivable that any reader would want to click on these very broad links for more information, so they have no value."
"... a much more specific link ... might be useful ..."
"What's reasonable about making a link that noone is ever likely to use?"
"In the very unlikely event that someone really doesn't know what is meant by 'World War II' ...
"... nothing's stopping them putting it into the search box.
I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking#Linking to World War II for other editors to comment here. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:32, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Colonies Chris. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (56th to be exact), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 23:10, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Please note WP:JR. Dicklyon ( talk) 06:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
You made an edit at Wellshot Station. Can you take a look at Eric Ronald Inglis and see if it can be condensed, merged into Wellshot Station. Thanks. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 15:43, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Wellshot Station, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Wether. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
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Thanks for all the great work you are doing! Dutchy85 ( talk) 01:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC) |
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for all the work you have done on western australian articles in the last 24 hours. appreciated. satusuro 23:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
yeah, well watching the whole of my watchlist go past day after day... - what ever happened to bots? (like the awb corrections to the way that Trove cites newspapers - you are fixing in effect each entry by hand - I though there were bots that could do that soert of stuff?).... satusuro 23:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
hell. oh well. satusuro 23:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Why did you remove the link to World War II with this edit? It seems like a reasonable link to me. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Likewise [1] [2] [3] [4] (for WW1 and/or WW2). Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
"The point of a link is to allow the reader to get more information about a subject that may be unfamiliar to them."
"For events as well known as the two world wars, it's really inconceivable that any reader would want to click on these very broad links for more information, so they have no value."
"... a much more specific link ... might be useful ..."
"What's reasonable about making a link that noone is ever likely to use?"
"In the very unlikely event that someone really doesn't know what is meant by 'World War II' ...
"... nothing's stopping them putting it into the search box.
I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking#Linking to World War II for other editors to comment here. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:32, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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