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Gerald,
Thank you very much for what you are doing to help me with my rewrite on the Door handle page. I appreciate it
You're welcome to edit it, of course. But at the moment you're doing my rewrite for me - changing other peoples' input. If you're looking at the page to help me learn how to edit, could I make clear that the only part I've worked on properly so far is the History section. Ideally I'd ask you to look at that section to see that it is OK. Then as I post edits in future, look at them too. Will that work for you? As I stated in the teahouse this will be rather piecemeal. I can see that it will be hard to know when I've finished a section. I know I've made changes all over the place and it must be hard for you to know when I'm finished and where I've done an urgent fix to come back to. I can indicate in the edit comments when I think I've finished a section if that helps? As I say, if you'd rather rewrite it yourself, that's fine. There are a lot of other poorly written articles out there....
I don't know whether you've looked at the talk page as well? I've stated that the basis of my rewrite is that a door handle is a handle for a door. A door lock or latch is something different. Can we agree this? I ask because your change to the caption of the door knob with associated lock was taking a different view? If you believe that the term "door handle" means the complete door locking mechanism not just the handle, then can we resolve this before further editing?
Thank you Universal Kakistocrat ( talk) 15:54, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Yo, my friend! Saw your edit at the Teahouse, and realized that you must not have a "script" installed, that automatically highlights the user names of all Administrators. Even if I had not known already known Materialscientist's name, it was highlighted for me, by use of this script. Just for fun, I checked MS's edit count, 1,270,000 or so, nearly broke the Wiki! Do you want me to provide the script? Very useful... Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 07:30, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
<i>
to edit Wikipedia because I used them a lot on exams and
GoingBatty corrected it. I'll try using one of them, see if it fits. Thanks for it!
Gerald
WL 08:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
to your previous comment to prevent the accidental italicization. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:21, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Howdy hello! I see that you were trying to be helpful on User_talk:Jimmyfact, but I'm afraid your edits did not have the desired effect. The blocked guy is basically trolling us, and we do not feed the trolls. If someone is trolling, just don't interact. Also, saying that someone is a Democrat is not outing. Its not recommended either, but it is not outing by the letter of the law, unless he's somehow found off-wiki evidence from Cullen. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 22:58, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Why would you want to answer questions like this if you have no idea about the correct answer? It is not particularly helpful. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 14:13, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for helping me out. I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of Wikipedia. I find the plethora of tutorials overwhelming. Again, thank you. Oscar Waldoosty ( talk) 13:05, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Gerald Waldo Luis!
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On 12 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2 Hours Doing Nothing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2 Hours Doing Nothing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 2 Hours Doing Nothing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 12:01, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gerald,
Could you help me out in understanding if this Draft of mine would Pass the AFC? I’m kind new here, and I would really appreciate some help, also I made an article and a draft on the same content, and I’m currently in a situation where I donno, if i can merge them somehow? It was really stupid of me.
Kjsarat ( talk) 15:37, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you help me on how to raise one for deletion? Also? Can you also check the draft out ? Kjsarat ( talk) 16:02, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to delete the draft, and Would really appreciate if you could tell me how to
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:05, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Also Gerald? Is this Article Accepted ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thattassery_Koottam
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:05, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gerald, it seems both the article are now being deleted,
The Draft I created, I have already requested for deletion
And the article is now nominated for deletion
Is it possible to keep one? Like I think it keeps all the guidelines in mind while creating the article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thattassery_Koottam
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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Gerald,
Thank you very much for what you are doing to help me with my rewrite on the Door handle page. I appreciate it
You're welcome to edit it, of course. But at the moment you're doing my rewrite for me - changing other peoples' input. If you're looking at the page to help me learn how to edit, could I make clear that the only part I've worked on properly so far is the History section. Ideally I'd ask you to look at that section to see that it is OK. Then as I post edits in future, look at them too. Will that work for you? As I stated in the teahouse this will be rather piecemeal. I can see that it will be hard to know when I've finished a section. I know I've made changes all over the place and it must be hard for you to know when I'm finished and where I've done an urgent fix to come back to. I can indicate in the edit comments when I think I've finished a section if that helps? As I say, if you'd rather rewrite it yourself, that's fine. There are a lot of other poorly written articles out there....
I don't know whether you've looked at the talk page as well? I've stated that the basis of my rewrite is that a door handle is a handle for a door. A door lock or latch is something different. Can we agree this? I ask because your change to the caption of the door knob with associated lock was taking a different view? If you believe that the term "door handle" means the complete door locking mechanism not just the handle, then can we resolve this before further editing?
Thank you Universal Kakistocrat ( talk) 15:54, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Yo, my friend! Saw your edit at the Teahouse, and realized that you must not have a "script" installed, that automatically highlights the user names of all Administrators. Even if I had not known already known Materialscientist's name, it was highlighted for me, by use of this script. Just for fun, I checked MS's edit count, 1,270,000 or so, nearly broke the Wiki! Do you want me to provide the script? Very useful... Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 07:30, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
<i>
to edit Wikipedia because I used them a lot on exams and
GoingBatty corrected it. I'll try using one of them, see if it fits. Thanks for it!
Gerald
WL 08:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
to your previous comment to prevent the accidental italicization. Happy editing!
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:21, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Howdy hello! I see that you were trying to be helpful on User_talk:Jimmyfact, but I'm afraid your edits did not have the desired effect. The blocked guy is basically trolling us, and we do not feed the trolls. If someone is trolling, just don't interact. Also, saying that someone is a Democrat is not outing. Its not recommended either, but it is not outing by the letter of the law, unless he's somehow found off-wiki evidence from Cullen. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 22:58, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
-- 14:25, Monday, August 31, 2020 ( UTC)
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Hello GWL! Please do not take questions that you can't be reasonably certain you know the answer to. Hosts are likely to skip over questions that have already been replied to without reading them, so it could be actively harmful to add replies that are not answers. Teahouse's way of asking you to slow down is usually more subtextual than most other places on Wikipedia; for example this was one. I don't mean to discourage you from participating, only to encourage you to familiarise yourself with each topic reasonably well before you take on questions in that area. Regards! Usedtobecool ☎️ 21:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Why would you want to answer questions like this if you have no idea about the correct answer? It is not particularly helpful. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 14:13, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for helping me out. I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of Wikipedia. I find the plethora of tutorials overwhelming. Again, thank you. Oscar Waldoosty ( talk) 13:05, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Gerald Waldo Luis!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Gerald
WL 09:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
|
On 12 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2 Hours Doing Nothing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2 Hours Doing Nothing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 2 Hours Doing Nothing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 12:01, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gerald,
Could you help me out in understanding if this Draft of mine would Pass the AFC? I’m kind new here, and I would really appreciate some help, also I made an article and a draft on the same content, and I’m currently in a situation where I donno, if i can merge them somehow? It was really stupid of me.
Kjsarat ( talk) 15:37, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Can you help me on how to raise one for deletion? Also? Can you also check the draft out ? Kjsarat ( talk) 16:02, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to delete the draft, and Would really appreciate if you could tell me how to
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:05, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Also Gerald? Is this Article Accepted ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thattassery_Koottam
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:05, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gerald, it seems both the article are now being deleted,
The Draft I created, I have already requested for deletion
And the article is now nominated for deletion
Is it possible to keep one? Like I think it keeps all the guidelines in mind while creating the article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thattassery_Koottam
Kjsarat ( talk) 16:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)