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I'm aware of Wikipedia's rules regarding British vs. American English. However, when I read the article, it was a mishmash of both styles, and I was working toward uniformity. As an American editor, I naturally made them according to American guidelines (in the case of this article, there is no distinct preference for British English). I also recognize that my edits may not have been thorough enough to make the article uniform in style (which had been my goal from the start), for which I apologize. I truly have no dog in this fight; if you wish to revert the article to the "half-and-half" status it was in when I found it, be my guest. I'm not going to go back and change things. PacificBoy 19:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like to ask your opinion of a disagreement with another editor about some links I have added. In the past you have also deleted the links but I never contacted you to discuss the situation because I was very new at adding content to Wikipedia.
The discussion has been going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mirfishe#adding_links_to_philipkdickfans_site and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rray#adding_links_to_philipkdickfans_site
I would like to know what you think about the site and adding links to it. The content linked to is from published works by scholars who teach or write or other secondary and primary sources like Wikipedia requires. I don't believe that the philipkdickfans site is a fan site as defined by Wikipedia. Thank you. Horselover Fat ( talk) 20:58, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there I've noticed that there has been three reverts at History of London by the same anonymous ip. You had spoken to them before, and I'm not sure where to report it or anything, so I thought I'd tell you. G-13114 ( talk) 17:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
I added a statement there, but as an older discussion, felt you might not see my comment unaided. Cheers! Dru of Id ( talk) 05:08, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Colin! So glad you are answering questions at the Teahouse! We do have specific methods and procedures when interacting on the Q&A page that makes us more unique than other help spaces. This includes simple methods such as saying "Hi!" when an editor asks a question (everyone likes to be welcomed when they visit a new place, right?) and keeping things as least jargony and linky as possible (i.e linking to policies and procedures). You might find some value in the Host tips page, which explains why we do what we do :) You also might have interest in becoming a Teahouse host! While we aren't tracking invites and requiring hourly volunteerism (that language will be updated soon!) anymore, that page will give you a good overview. Regardless, we're happy you are participating and I look forward to it further in any capacity! Sarah ( talk) 16:44, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Colin, You put a ref-improve tag on PDIC. There is so little text there that I wonder why you didn't put an inline tag on the specific item you query. Could you specify which of the five short sentences you would like to see verified? Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
ColinFine, I don't know if you have kept Ariel Fernandez on your watchlist, but I reinstated your COI and BLP sources tags; and then, after an IP editor removed them, I reinstated them again. The user Arifer (an obvious contraction of Ariel Fernandez) has responded to our concerns with some edits, but still seems reluctant to deal with the issues properly. RockMagnetist ( talk) 17:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I believe you meant to say here that properly referenced information "should not" be removed.
Should anyone read that, they might get the wrong idea.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:38, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, Can I ask you to use Edit summaries more often? - I, and many other editors, fild it useful to see what you are doing when your edits turn up. Thanks, Mdann52 ( talk) 13:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
The English versus British English was simply based on the interference that he said his translations may sound German. Since we cannot hear an accent, I assume he was talking about German-styled-English-grammar-stlye (if there is such as word, lol)... But to my point, based on that, I just wanted to clarify that if we was going to edit, to not be worrying about the differences, or going about correcting things which might be grammar style issues instead of actual errors. Tiggerjay ( talk) 17:23, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Colin I would like your advice.
A user has started demanding an article layout be changed according to his desire against the vote of everyone else who has reverted the changes. It is really odd. I have no idea how to handle the situation. He thinks he owns the article? And is this type of thing a regular occurrence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_people_who_have_been_called_a_polymath
I am also updating the page of Patrick M. Byrne which has extremely confusing Talk page requirements. Bhalluka ( talk) 19:07, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I've just turned this duplicate (and dreadful) article back into a redirect to Zorats Karer. Let me know if there are any further problems. Dougweller ( talk) 12:43, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
I really appreciated your thoughtful and non-jargon explanation of notability to an editor at the Teahouse. I think it's all to easy to forget how opaque some of our concepts can be to newcomers and you went out of your way to state it in plain language. Thanks for doing that!
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In response to your answer to my question about videos and references...
"Interesting. Thanks for your informative answer. Most of the videos are pretty much straight adverts, but some information may be (such as the camp's activities) raw, factual information. How would I link the channel to the Wikipedia page? Just an external link? If so, where would I place the link?"
Thanks for your help.
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See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Thirteenth century clothing. Thanks.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 14:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi ColinFine. I don't know how else to contact you other than here. Please read my reply to you in the FreshBooks article "Talk" area, and I'd much appreciate your further reply. I don't get notifications of any further "talk", so feel free to e-mail me too. Hartmut W Sager / hws-wiki@marityme.net / HWSager ( talk) 09:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)HWSager
wut. You apparently added over 74000 bytes to the page size... Frigid Ninja 22:43, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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I don't bear you any ill will. However, please understand that I was trying to help Rosafitch as well. My intent was to give her a quick summary of what the policy was, so that she wouldn't have to try slogging through several entire policy pages on her own, as most new editors find policy pages hard to read. (And for good reason; they tend to use five dollar words when fifty cents would do.) Sophus Bie ( talk) 10:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Colin and welcome to the Teahouse! I appreciate your recent contributions at the Teahouse, but feel that some of them may have been a little less than the
normal host expectations.
I've noticed that a good number of the questions asked at the Teahouse have truly atrocious English, and have come to realize that this is often because the posters have no knowledge or grasp of the English language. I've had to work real hard from time to time just to try and decipher their questions.
Often, when that is the case, I'll ask them, "Is your question trying to ask ...?" or "When you said this did you mean it in this way?" Always trying to be as friendly as I can be (and I'll admit, I've gone back and seen some of my responses a little on the snappy side) as I'm sure not knowing how to express the question they want answered in a language that is foreign to them is more frustrating to them than having difficulty understanding the question is to me.
Anyways, in order to try and prevent this from becoming a
tl;dr, if you need any help with answering questions, let me know and I'll try to help you make it a pleasant experience for everyone. I hope you have a wonderful day!
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For inserting a heading above the Egyptian post that may have been about a scam. Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:13, 23 June 2013 (UTC) |
Hello Colin, sorry the bother here. I left a message for you here. And I would like to ask you a favour. Please... can you say if my user page shows a lot of personal info which you think isn't necessary in Wikpipedia. Let me know to remove it. Thanks. Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 15:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. -- EpochFail( talk • work), Technical 13 ( talk), TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 17:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Colin,
I saw some of your comments at the Teahouse (thanks for helping out there) and wanted to suggest that you look over WP:Secondary does not mean independent. WP:USEPRIMARY goes into more detail, but generally speaking, a secondary source is one that provides transformative analysis, not one that is merely independent. A reporter who listens to a speech, and writes a newspaper story about the speech, is producing an independent primary source. But if he analyses the speech (or the contents of the speech), then he's producing an independent secondary source. If the same sort of serious analysis is done later by the speaker, then it's a non-independent (and therefore probably biased) secondary source. Notability requires both independent sources and secondary sources. Figuring out classification is fairly complicated in some cases, but independence alone is not sufficient. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey, can you help on this? -- L o g X 20:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Colin, Thank you very much for the solid advice! I got more of a thorough overview of Wikipedia in your thoughtful comments, than I could dig up in the wonky help sections and it was much more constructive that the previous comments of "uh...no." I completely agree that I'm too close to the topic, but would like to have someone else take a stab at this. How long will my article be available to edit?
Thanks again Rschingel BOB.tv 11:55, 11 October 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rschingel ( talk • contribs)
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Every now and then as I look at the archives of some of the various help desks, I see a question I could have answered since I realized something the person or persons who did answer did not. Someone couldn't edit Silverlock and you asked what happened when they tried. The person asked the question twice and I was trying to figure out why, and then I saw it. It wasn't the article. It was the concept.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Collin. I have a question according my article. I asked it in Teahouse page but here is the copy of it. I have found one printing book for android users. Android for users Could it be as a reference, though it is written in Russian? Or it could just be for russian pages? Vasiliy.Zhukov ( talk) 06:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
From another help desk question: I'm American but have never spelled "dialogue" as "dialog". I think that's correct, even though imdb, when I do reviews for them, wants to tell me "dialogue" is the wrong spelling.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:18, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious. I was trying to be somewhat humorous, and don't really think that it's all black and white, but how was my response off-topic? They asked about how homosexuality is addressed, and I gave a tongue in cheek but truthful answer. -- Onorem ( talk) 16:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear colin, thank you very much for pointing out my mistake in the tea house discussion :). I will work so that mistake won't happen again. -- Andrew Eugene Discuss 13:22, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Colin. Thanks for the comprehensive help in the Teahouse. I believe I have resolved the issues raised in the discussion, and I have removed the tag. The cherryblossomclinic interview did download for me, but it took megaminutes (somebody's server is feeling overworked, and underloved) whereas the last time I navigated to that page it wasn't a problem. That section of the Annie Haslam article was written by another editor, and being a quote from an interview it can't be cited in any other way. Your comment about primary sources was noted. Would you be so kind as to have a quick look at the article again, please and let me know if the citations meet the guidelines? p.s. I'm not a nightowl, but I am an Aussie. Have a great day. CaesarsPalaceDude ( talk) 02:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi! ColinFine, Thanks. You have recovered the missing part of the article Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Choto Moulana. Truely, it was the requirement. -- Sufidisciple ( talk) 14:22, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear Colin, many thanks for the prompt reaction/explanation and for fixing the references tags in the protest article! Kind regards from Sofia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.85.4.196 ( talk) 10:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Told you something on the Teahouse. -- Nahnah4 Any thoughts? Pen 'em down here! 10:40, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, looking to improve the Ujima Radio page to be more up to date and factual, are you able to advise or suggest how to do this? We know about conflict of interest and don't want to fall into this trap, but we don't know enough about wiki editing to do this, so we're asking for your help. We want to have relevant information for listeners or anyone researching the site, and have links to material but are not sure how to proceed. Longer term we would like to other community pages such as wikimedia commons and donate pictures and videos which may be useful for other users. I'm a complete newbie, and am not paid by Ujima. I'm simply a volunteer wanting to support my local community station.
Am working on page gradually so that more can be added as and when I have time to add in relevant references. But don't seem to understand how to cite references properly, as it brings these up as errors Girlinthegreydress ( talk) 22:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
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This appears to be your work. Can you explain the Heldenfels reference so I can make sure it isn't something I did wrong at some point, seeing as how I have used this man's column as a source many times?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for appearing to overwrite your post to the help desk here. I did not do this deliberately, it's some kind of Wikimedia bug (which seems to be occuring much more frequently at the moment). Spinning Spark 10:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for gracious 'correction' on the main Teahouse page. I might have been trying to be 'bold' or misinterpreted the question itself. I was viewing the validity of the references from a third-party viewpoint. I didn't stop to figure out that the teahouse guest was probably part of the organization that published the documents she was referring to. I will apologize on the Teahouse page and explain how I misinterpreted the question and thank for pointing out my error. Again, thank you. bpage ( talk) 23:40, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Colin,
Thank you for your response to LestorLloyd. I used the word vandalism based on the type of edits made by LestorLloyd because I noticed that LestorLloyd specifically replaced key words with his/her own, including words like 'gobbledygook' and exchanged words like 'Samadhi' with 'Narcolepsy' which is an obvious attempt to slander and discredit John de Ruiter. I don't believe this is a simple case of content dispute as the words used do not appear in the articles cited.
While the objective of Wikipedia is to be entirely neutral, I have been aware of a tendency by some editors to adopt a negative view within a pretext of neutrality. I suggest that words such as 'narcolepsy' and 'gobbledygook' reveal a negative bias. In addition, true, positive, and citable statements which could contribute to an accurate description of John de Ruiter, as do critical statements, so far have been disallowed in this article.
The article already slants toward the negative in my opinion and is not neutral by any means. Your response to LestorLloyd that 'While I know nothing of him, I have some sympathy with your position.' is surprising if you mean that you are sympathizing with his negative position regarding John de Ruiter. While the objective of Wikipedia is be neutral and balanced, I hope that we can recognize the possibility of an underlying tendency toward the negative with respect this article. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Planktonium ( talk • contribs) 23:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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"Good Morning" ColinFine:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia!
13 December is the day when Swedes perplex the rest of the world by showing up way too early in the morning dressed in white tunics, candles in their hair, singing and bringing saffron buns and breakfast in bed to nice people. Hope you have a bright day!
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I have a feeling I've given you one of these before, but this was just such a perfect example of your kind, helpful and well-considered attitude with new users that I felt I had to show my approval. Yunshui 雲 水 13:04, 17 December 2014 (UTC) |
Bu the way, I don't know whether you're aware of this project, but you might want to consider becoming part of it, it would fit your skillset nicely. Signups for the pilot are here. Yunshui 雲 水 13:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your advices! It is funny that I wanted you to ping me but I accidentally added the word "don't"! Ikhtiar H ( talk) 11:02, 28 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hello ColinFine! As you may not know, you have been nominated as His Excellency's Most Honorable Certified Underturd of the Wikipedian Empire This is just a message of authentification so that you know that it is I, the real Official Turd, not some over-the-top wannabe, am actually awarding you this immense honor. For more information about the subject, click here. Thank you for your wonderful contributions to the Empire! You can see your award on your user page in the form of a little brown userbox. Thanks for all your hard work, Das Pig talk 01:28, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey Colin. Just to echo what Yunshui said above, I wanted to invite you to help us pilot our new mentorship space, the Co-op. We're looking for mentors who are willing to help out one or two editors during our month-long pilot starting in late January 2015. The idea is that mentors will be doing one-on-one teaching based on how an editor wants to contribute, and it's not some huge commitment to teach/learn comprehensively about Wikipedia. We also want to make to easier for new editors to find mentors as well. Your extensive experience at the Teahouse has been impressive, and we could really use something with your experience on board. If you're interested, please sign up here and feel free to peruse, make suggestions, or ask questions in our discussions about how the Co-op will work. Thanks a bunch (and Happy New Year!), I, JethroBT drop me a line 05:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Since I know that you have glanced at the page already, would it be possible for you to leave a comment on the Alevism talk page on the dispute there? [ [1]] It would be useful to have more input. Edging ( talk) 21:45, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry Colin I'm not sure what you mean?? WriteaboutArt ( talk) 06:46, 23 February 2015 (UTC) Oh I see what you mean, from my response. I would not add new work until the article is accepted. Sorry I mislead you.
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Hi Colin, Sorry you can't join us on the day. It'd be great if an experienced editor such as yourself could participate remotely or look through some of the articles in advance/afterwards. Would you be interested in other subjects related to Yorkshire's museums and galleries? If there's anything such institutions might do to help your editing let me know! Cheers, PatHadley ( talk) 16:57, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer to my query re: a category for Salmagundi Club
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Thank you for all your help in getting me started on Wikipedia, you totally deserve this, and I am surprised you don't have more of these cluttering up your talk space. You have done a ton on Wikipedia, and are so humble about it, which is really cool. Keep up the great work!😊 BluJay ( talk) 02:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks a lot Colin, very clear and straightforward. I think I can get an article underway and I understand that it will get some scrutiny, which I appreciate. Imamoca ( talk) 14:17, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Colin, I've tried to improve the article of David Fishelov Draft:David_Fishelov according to your comments and haven't got any reply from you.I'll appreciate your response to the updated version of the article. Davidgute ( talk) 17:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Colin, I've left a message for you but not sure if you got an alert. The message is in this page. Thanks! Davidgute ( talk) 05:03, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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I'm aware of Wikipedia's rules regarding British vs. American English. However, when I read the article, it was a mishmash of both styles, and I was working toward uniformity. As an American editor, I naturally made them according to American guidelines (in the case of this article, there is no distinct preference for British English). I also recognize that my edits may not have been thorough enough to make the article uniform in style (which had been my goal from the start), for which I apologize. I truly have no dog in this fight; if you wish to revert the article to the "half-and-half" status it was in when I found it, be my guest. I'm not going to go back and change things. PacificBoy 19:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like to ask your opinion of a disagreement with another editor about some links I have added. In the past you have also deleted the links but I never contacted you to discuss the situation because I was very new at adding content to Wikipedia.
The discussion has been going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mirfishe#adding_links_to_philipkdickfans_site and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rray#adding_links_to_philipkdickfans_site
I would like to know what you think about the site and adding links to it. The content linked to is from published works by scholars who teach or write or other secondary and primary sources like Wikipedia requires. I don't believe that the philipkdickfans site is a fan site as defined by Wikipedia. Thank you. Horselover Fat ( talk) 20:58, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there I've noticed that there has been three reverts at History of London by the same anonymous ip. You had spoken to them before, and I'm not sure where to report it or anything, so I thought I'd tell you. G-13114 ( talk) 17:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
I added a statement there, but as an older discussion, felt you might not see my comment unaided. Cheers! Dru of Id ( talk) 05:08, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Colin! So glad you are answering questions at the Teahouse! We do have specific methods and procedures when interacting on the Q&A page that makes us more unique than other help spaces. This includes simple methods such as saying "Hi!" when an editor asks a question (everyone likes to be welcomed when they visit a new place, right?) and keeping things as least jargony and linky as possible (i.e linking to policies and procedures). You might find some value in the Host tips page, which explains why we do what we do :) You also might have interest in becoming a Teahouse host! While we aren't tracking invites and requiring hourly volunteerism (that language will be updated soon!) anymore, that page will give you a good overview. Regardless, we're happy you are participating and I look forward to it further in any capacity! Sarah ( talk) 16:44, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Colin, You put a ref-improve tag on PDIC. There is so little text there that I wonder why you didn't put an inline tag on the specific item you query. Could you specify which of the five short sentences you would like to see verified? Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
ColinFine, I don't know if you have kept Ariel Fernandez on your watchlist, but I reinstated your COI and BLP sources tags; and then, after an IP editor removed them, I reinstated them again. The user Arifer (an obvious contraction of Ariel Fernandez) has responded to our concerns with some edits, but still seems reluctant to deal with the issues properly. RockMagnetist ( talk) 17:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
I believe you meant to say here that properly referenced information "should not" be removed.
Should anyone read that, they might get the wrong idea.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:38, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, Can I ask you to use Edit summaries more often? - I, and many other editors, fild it useful to see what you are doing when your edits turn up. Thanks, Mdann52 ( talk) 13:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
The English versus British English was simply based on the interference that he said his translations may sound German. Since we cannot hear an accent, I assume he was talking about German-styled-English-grammar-stlye (if there is such as word, lol)... But to my point, based on that, I just wanted to clarify that if we was going to edit, to not be worrying about the differences, or going about correcting things which might be grammar style issues instead of actual errors. Tiggerjay ( talk) 17:23, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Colin I would like your advice.
A user has started demanding an article layout be changed according to his desire against the vote of everyone else who has reverted the changes. It is really odd. I have no idea how to handle the situation. He thinks he owns the article? And is this type of thing a regular occurrence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_people_who_have_been_called_a_polymath
I am also updating the page of Patrick M. Byrne which has extremely confusing Talk page requirements. Bhalluka ( talk) 19:07, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I've just turned this duplicate (and dreadful) article back into a redirect to Zorats Karer. Let me know if there are any further problems. Dougweller ( talk) 12:43, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
I really appreciated your thoughtful and non-jargon explanation of notability to an editor at the Teahouse. I think it's all to easy to forget how opaque some of our concepts can be to newcomers and you went out of your way to state it in plain language. Thanks for doing that!
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In response to your answer to my question about videos and references...
"Interesting. Thanks for your informative answer. Most of the videos are pretty much straight adverts, but some information may be (such as the camp's activities) raw, factual information. How would I link the channel to the Wikipedia page? Just an external link? If so, where would I place the link?"
Thanks for your help.
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See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Thirteenth century clothing. Thanks.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 14:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi ColinFine. I don't know how else to contact you other than here. Please read my reply to you in the FreshBooks article "Talk" area, and I'd much appreciate your further reply. I don't get notifications of any further "talk", so feel free to e-mail me too. Hartmut W Sager / hws-wiki@marityme.net / HWSager ( talk) 09:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)HWSager
wut. You apparently added over 74000 bytes to the page size... Frigid Ninja 22:43, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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I don't bear you any ill will. However, please understand that I was trying to help Rosafitch as well. My intent was to give her a quick summary of what the policy was, so that she wouldn't have to try slogging through several entire policy pages on her own, as most new editors find policy pages hard to read. (And for good reason; they tend to use five dollar words when fifty cents would do.) Sophus Bie ( talk) 10:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Colin and welcome to the Teahouse! I appreciate your recent contributions at the Teahouse, but feel that some of them may have been a little less than the
normal host expectations.
I've noticed that a good number of the questions asked at the Teahouse have truly atrocious English, and have come to realize that this is often because the posters have no knowledge or grasp of the English language. I've had to work real hard from time to time just to try and decipher their questions.
Often, when that is the case, I'll ask them, "Is your question trying to ask ...?" or "When you said this did you mean it in this way?" Always trying to be as friendly as I can be (and I'll admit, I've gone back and seen some of my responses a little on the snappy side) as I'm sure not knowing how to express the question they want answered in a language that is foreign to them is more frustrating to them than having difficulty understanding the question is to me.
Anyways, in order to try and prevent this from becoming a
tl;dr, if you need any help with answering questions, let me know and I'll try to help you make it a pleasant experience for everyone. I hope you have a wonderful day!
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For inserting a heading above the Egyptian post that may have been about a scam. Robert McClenon ( talk) 19:13, 23 June 2013 (UTC) |
Hello Colin, sorry the bother here. I left a message for you here. And I would like to ask you a favour. Please... can you say if my user page shows a lot of personal info which you think isn't necessary in Wikpipedia. Let me know to remove it. Thanks. Ms.Bono (zootalk)☆ 15:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. -- EpochFail( talk • work), Technical 13 ( talk), TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 17:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Colin,
I saw some of your comments at the Teahouse (thanks for helping out there) and wanted to suggest that you look over WP:Secondary does not mean independent. WP:USEPRIMARY goes into more detail, but generally speaking, a secondary source is one that provides transformative analysis, not one that is merely independent. A reporter who listens to a speech, and writes a newspaper story about the speech, is producing an independent primary source. But if he analyses the speech (or the contents of the speech), then he's producing an independent secondary source. If the same sort of serious analysis is done later by the speaker, then it's a non-independent (and therefore probably biased) secondary source. Notability requires both independent sources and secondary sources. Figuring out classification is fairly complicated in some cases, but independence alone is not sufficient. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey, can you help on this? -- L o g X 20:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Colin, Thank you very much for the solid advice! I got more of a thorough overview of Wikipedia in your thoughtful comments, than I could dig up in the wonky help sections and it was much more constructive that the previous comments of "uh...no." I completely agree that I'm too close to the topic, but would like to have someone else take a stab at this. How long will my article be available to edit?
Thanks again Rschingel BOB.tv 11:55, 11 October 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rschingel ( talk • contribs)
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Every now and then as I look at the archives of some of the various help desks, I see a question I could have answered since I realized something the person or persons who did answer did not. Someone couldn't edit Silverlock and you asked what happened when they tried. The person asked the question twice and I was trying to figure out why, and then I saw it. It wasn't the article. It was the concept.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Collin. I have a question according my article. I asked it in Teahouse page but here is the copy of it. I have found one printing book for android users. Android for users Could it be as a reference, though it is written in Russian? Or it could just be for russian pages? Vasiliy.Zhukov ( talk) 06:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
From another help desk question: I'm American but have never spelled "dialogue" as "dialog". I think that's correct, even though imdb, when I do reviews for them, wants to tell me "dialogue" is the wrong spelling.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:18, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious. I was trying to be somewhat humorous, and don't really think that it's all black and white, but how was my response off-topic? They asked about how homosexuality is addressed, and I gave a tongue in cheek but truthful answer. -- Onorem ( talk) 16:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear colin, thank you very much for pointing out my mistake in the tea house discussion :). I will work so that mistake won't happen again. -- Andrew Eugene Discuss 13:22, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Colin. Thanks for the comprehensive help in the Teahouse. I believe I have resolved the issues raised in the discussion, and I have removed the tag. The cherryblossomclinic interview did download for me, but it took megaminutes (somebody's server is feeling overworked, and underloved) whereas the last time I navigated to that page it wasn't a problem. That section of the Annie Haslam article was written by another editor, and being a quote from an interview it can't be cited in any other way. Your comment about primary sources was noted. Would you be so kind as to have a quick look at the article again, please and let me know if the citations meet the guidelines? p.s. I'm not a nightowl, but I am an Aussie. Have a great day. CaesarsPalaceDude ( talk) 02:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi! ColinFine, Thanks. You have recovered the missing part of the article Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Choto Moulana. Truely, it was the requirement. -- Sufidisciple ( talk) 14:22, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear Colin, many thanks for the prompt reaction/explanation and for fixing the references tags in the protest article! Kind regards from Sofia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.85.4.196 ( talk) 10:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Told you something on the Teahouse. -- Nahnah4 Any thoughts? Pen 'em down here! 10:40, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, looking to improve the Ujima Radio page to be more up to date and factual, are you able to advise or suggest how to do this? We know about conflict of interest and don't want to fall into this trap, but we don't know enough about wiki editing to do this, so we're asking for your help. We want to have relevant information for listeners or anyone researching the site, and have links to material but are not sure how to proceed. Longer term we would like to other community pages such as wikimedia commons and donate pictures and videos which may be useful for other users. I'm a complete newbie, and am not paid by Ujima. I'm simply a volunteer wanting to support my local community station.
Am working on page gradually so that more can be added as and when I have time to add in relevant references. But don't seem to understand how to cite references properly, as it brings these up as errors Girlinthegreydress ( talk) 22:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
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This appears to be your work. Can you explain the Heldenfels reference so I can make sure it isn't something I did wrong at some point, seeing as how I have used this man's column as a source many times?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for appearing to overwrite your post to the help desk here. I did not do this deliberately, it's some kind of Wikimedia bug (which seems to be occuring much more frequently at the moment). Spinning Spark 10:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for gracious 'correction' on the main Teahouse page. I might have been trying to be 'bold' or misinterpreted the question itself. I was viewing the validity of the references from a third-party viewpoint. I didn't stop to figure out that the teahouse guest was probably part of the organization that published the documents she was referring to. I will apologize on the Teahouse page and explain how I misinterpreted the question and thank for pointing out my error. Again, thank you. bpage ( talk) 23:40, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Colin,
Thank you for your response to LestorLloyd. I used the word vandalism based on the type of edits made by LestorLloyd because I noticed that LestorLloyd specifically replaced key words with his/her own, including words like 'gobbledygook' and exchanged words like 'Samadhi' with 'Narcolepsy' which is an obvious attempt to slander and discredit John de Ruiter. I don't believe this is a simple case of content dispute as the words used do not appear in the articles cited.
While the objective of Wikipedia is to be entirely neutral, I have been aware of a tendency by some editors to adopt a negative view within a pretext of neutrality. I suggest that words such as 'narcolepsy' and 'gobbledygook' reveal a negative bias. In addition, true, positive, and citable statements which could contribute to an accurate description of John de Ruiter, as do critical statements, so far have been disallowed in this article.
The article already slants toward the negative in my opinion and is not neutral by any means. Your response to LestorLloyd that 'While I know nothing of him, I have some sympathy with your position.' is surprising if you mean that you are sympathizing with his negative position regarding John de Ruiter. While the objective of Wikipedia is be neutral and balanced, I hope that we can recognize the possibility of an underlying tendency toward the negative with respect this article. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Planktonium ( talk • contribs) 23:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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"Good Morning" ColinFine:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia!
13 December is the day when Swedes perplex the rest of the world by showing up way too early in the morning dressed in white tunics, candles in their hair, singing and bringing saffron buns and breakfast in bed to nice people. Hope you have a bright day!
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I have a feeling I've given you one of these before, but this was just such a perfect example of your kind, helpful and well-considered attitude with new users that I felt I had to show my approval. Yunshui 雲 水 13:04, 17 December 2014 (UTC) |
Bu the way, I don't know whether you're aware of this project, but you might want to consider becoming part of it, it would fit your skillset nicely. Signups for the pilot are here. Yunshui 雲 水 13:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your advices! It is funny that I wanted you to ping me but I accidentally added the word "don't"! Ikhtiar H ( talk) 11:02, 28 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hello ColinFine! As you may not know, you have been nominated as His Excellency's Most Honorable Certified Underturd of the Wikipedian Empire This is just a message of authentification so that you know that it is I, the real Official Turd, not some over-the-top wannabe, am actually awarding you this immense honor. For more information about the subject, click here. Thank you for your wonderful contributions to the Empire! You can see your award on your user page in the form of a little brown userbox. Thanks for all your hard work, Das Pig talk 01:28, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey Colin. Just to echo what Yunshui said above, I wanted to invite you to help us pilot our new mentorship space, the Co-op. We're looking for mentors who are willing to help out one or two editors during our month-long pilot starting in late January 2015. The idea is that mentors will be doing one-on-one teaching based on how an editor wants to contribute, and it's not some huge commitment to teach/learn comprehensively about Wikipedia. We also want to make to easier for new editors to find mentors as well. Your extensive experience at the Teahouse has been impressive, and we could really use something with your experience on board. If you're interested, please sign up here and feel free to peruse, make suggestions, or ask questions in our discussions about how the Co-op will work. Thanks a bunch (and Happy New Year!), I, JethroBT drop me a line 05:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Since I know that you have glanced at the page already, would it be possible for you to leave a comment on the Alevism talk page on the dispute there? [ [1]] It would be useful to have more input. Edging ( talk) 21:45, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry Colin I'm not sure what you mean?? WriteaboutArt ( talk) 06:46, 23 February 2015 (UTC) Oh I see what you mean, from my response. I would not add new work until the article is accepted. Sorry I mislead you.
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Hi Colin, Sorry you can't join us on the day. It'd be great if an experienced editor such as yourself could participate remotely or look through some of the articles in advance/afterwards. Would you be interested in other subjects related to Yorkshire's museums and galleries? If there's anything such institutions might do to help your editing let me know! Cheers, PatHadley ( talk) 16:57, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer to my query re: a category for Salmagundi Club
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Thank you for all your help in getting me started on Wikipedia, you totally deserve this, and I am surprised you don't have more of these cluttering up your talk space. You have done a ton on Wikipedia, and are so humble about it, which is really cool. Keep up the great work!😊 BluJay ( talk) 02:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks a lot Colin, very clear and straightforward. I think I can get an article underway and I understand that it will get some scrutiny, which I appreciate. Imamoca ( talk) 14:17, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Colin, I've tried to improve the article of David Fishelov Draft:David_Fishelov according to your comments and haven't got any reply from you.I'll appreciate your response to the updated version of the article. Davidgute ( talk) 17:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Colin, I've left a message for you but not sure if you got an alert. The message is in this page. Thanks! Davidgute ( talk) 05:03, 24 March 2015 (UTC)