User talk:UncleCedric

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Happy editing! Cheers, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 19:35, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! User:Schminnte UncleCedric (talk) 20:22, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Previous account(s)?

Hello, UncleCedric,

You have only been editing for one day and yet you have a fleshed out User page proclaiming yourself to be a member of a WikiProject, WikiProject Biography. Editors who have only been active for one day don't know about WikiProjects nor do they know who are the admins they should go to for help or the right policy codewords. You must have edited this project previously with other accounts.

Please declare your previous or alternate accounts on your User page (both User pages) or you could be seen as committing sockpuppetry or block evasion. If you have questions about the legitimate use of multiple accounts, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:41, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Liz, I have been learning wikipedia for at least 3 years now. Watching YouTube videos and reading the instructions on how to help the WikipediaProjects by reverting edits and rating articles, i spend an awful amount of time on the internet. And I love typing, especially on my mobile device. It was a common website I used to visit over the years and became more interest in it when I found out that wikipedia uses HTML to edit as I do websites ideas for clients via HTML.

Most of the information I know is limited, as I recently made a huge mistake by moving a page [[Draft

Breaker007/1948 Israeli raid on Syrian customs house]] as I was considering to move it to the draft but moved it to the wrong user space due to a mistake I made.

The badges you see I found by searching through wikipedia, there was a page which displays all the tags there.

I don't own any other accounts, does this mean I should remove my tags in user page??

Im intellectually inclined so I know I learn fast and I want to be a contributor to the encyclopedia by assessing and reverting tidious edits. I have visited many wikipedia pages over the years and would be furious discovering stupid things like "Michael Jackson is a girl who love to dance" or "Stevie Wonder acts as if he is blind". So I have been doing my research on what to do and what not to do.

Forgive me if I'm not supposed to display it the badges, I thought I'm allowed to put it there by what I read in some page on wikipedia. UncleCedric (talk) 20:20, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

other Wikipedia accounts

Per, WP:SOCK, if you are/ have been using other Wikipedia accounts, you need to follow very specific rules and may need to disclose such. Also, please do not make excuses in a lame effort to save face. Just admit your error. We've all heard this verbiage before and after twenty years, it wears thin. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chris, as I explained to User:Liz in the above topic. I had no idea that I can't display those badges there. Also It is my first time trying to revert edits on newly created articles. I am however no way linked to any of the newly created articles users in the WikipediaProject, I was merely trying to display what my intentions on wikipedia is. I displayed the badges with the thought that I will be helping the project revert edits, tagging Sock puppetry and doing quality assessment. I had no idea someone should do it for me

I have since removed those tags on my user page and left the rest active. If I'm not allow to put any of the other tags on my User page please assist me as to when or how I get them as I haven't found an article explaining exactly that? UncleCedric (talk) 20:44, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your editing gives every indication that you've edited this wiki in the past. However, the evidence I see is too flimsy for me to make an accusation for a specific prior account. If you really want to be useful, join WP:GOCE. They are running a backlog drive this week. The cleanup you could do there would be meaningful and you'll have more userboxes to display on your userpage. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Chris , This truly helps me a lot as I have been searching for a way of how to actually be useful to the encyclopedia and maintain a safe space for readers and for students "concerninly" citing baldy sources wikipedia articles that are tagged with {{multiple issues}} or have never been assessed for rating for many years. During my years as a part time high school teacher, the young adults used to cite those type of articles with no Class rating or Assessment ,Priorities , Etc.

My main concern is Notability, reliable sources that can verify the information that was provided. I know very basic stuff about wikipedia and It was taught to me and many other students by a former professor of mine from university, he said that if we ever wanted to cite Wiki articles in our work, we had to check what the rating and assessment priority scale was and if it has been accepted as a wikipedia article, with a rating on the assessment scales. Which is also why I'm so familiar with basics like getting around to the talk page and little things connected. I've been doing the basic stuff like facts checking and readproofing for years based on researches presented to me.

This is the help that could help me do peaceful edits and helpful contributions to the encyclopedia. UncleCedric (talk) 22:30, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

UncleCedric: I edited this section changing {{multiple issues|}} to {{tl|multiple issues|}} to fix a multiline table in list and indent leak to the end of page. If you want to display the actual template and not its name, remove the tl|, put the template on its own line, and on the next line, before "or have never been assessed...", insert ":::" to indent. Cheers, Anomalocaris (talk) 02:06, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Very useful tip, thank you so much. UncleCedric (talk) 03:45, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is why I assume bad faith. There's no incentive to suffer manipulative liars. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:01, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What does that mean for my quality of writing?

Hi there Uncle Cedric, I saw earlier that you marked my firstly created article as Start Class. And I have been reaching out to some Pending changers reviewers and Extended Confirmed users ever since seeing your edit, why? Which is about the quality of my work provided to the encyclopedia and if it has been accepted. Basically has it been reviewed? I'm just curious to know, So that I can maintain the same style when adding some of the newly created articles about similar acts in the same niche.

Kind regards. Frankymulls (talk) 23:32, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have since verified the reliability of the sources presented and have "Assessed" it with a C-Class rating of low importance. Wikipedia:Content assessment

Conncering the page reviewing I do not have the rights to do so as my knowledge and credit about reviewing is limit. I have since left a message to a highly credited reviewer User:Schminnte who might be able to assist you further in that department.

Visit my User page to get a better understanding of strong points / what I'm good at doing. UncleCedric (talk) 05:45, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Highly credited, I don't know about that! But I can tell you that class ratings are very subjective. They can be made by a single editor with almost no oversight, and opinions differ. If the article has been rated start, then an editor thinks it can be improved to C class by adding more depth to the subject and citing more reliable sources. A C class article can also be improved to a B class article with even more depth and general copyediting. You can see these ratings and their explanations at WP:ASSESS.

The content ratings don't necessarily mean that an article has been reviewed, but many reviewers do it as part of the process. Without a page link I'm unsure if the article has actually been reviewed, but if not I assure you that the New Pages Patrol will get to it in time. Thanks, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 13:03, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

could you please explain what you mean by "Without a page link im unsure if the article has actually been reviewed".

is it possible for you to mark the page as reviewed or are you saying you can't because you don't know if it's been reviewed already? What is the page link? I apologise for all my questions Schminnte.

I will make it my duty to make improvements to the article and all of the articles I edit or edited in due time :)

I'm also busy with some more work in my draft space and was wondering if it is possible to create more than one draft at a time as I'm currently doing my others on different apps and haven't really figure out if it is possible.

Many Thanks. Frankymulls (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was saying that I didn't know what page you were talking about. It has now been brought to my attention on my talk page. I recommend that you read the comments I made on the references here. Schminnte (talk • contribs) 15:47, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Doc Shebeleza (South African musician) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Doc Shebeleza (South African musician). Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. — Karnataka ^talk 22:40, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there User:Karnataka, there is no COI. I do not know any of the celebrities on wikipedia lol. I often search for newly created articles coming from Africa, USA etc mostly music related and I do quality assessment on old and new articles with a rating to help clean the years of backlog.

I couldn't rate the article Draft:Doc Shebeleza (South African musician) because it is written like an advertisement. I removed the speedy deletion tag because I'm an inclusionist and the topic is somewhat notable , I ran the name through Google search engines and google news and found multiple news sources on the topic. added the additional tags to let the creator know. So there is no conflict of interest, I read the references linked to the article and most of the information which is present on the topics wiki page is found in the articles references but the creator of the articles tone doesn't suit the encyclopedia's tone of writing.

Thank you! UncleCedric (talk) 06:07, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I only wanted to notify you of the draftspace move because you removed the CSD tag and may want to know about the move, and the only real reason I did the move was due to the promotional nature.

The COI tag was meant for the creator. I checked its notability before moving which is why notability wasn't mentioned as a reason. Sorry for the confusion! — Karnataka ^talk 11:37, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of B Major SA

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A tag has been placed on B Major SA requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/B_Major_(South_African_musician). When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Nomination of B Major SA for deletion

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Blocked as a sockpuppet

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Spicy (talk) 20:26, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]