User talk:Aciram/Archives/2023/October

Your draft article, Draft:Marcelle Dauphin


Hello, Aciram. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Marcelle Dauphin".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Hey man im josh (talk) 10:46, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023
Hello. I have noticed that you edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Eric talk 15:01, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I will try to remember that. I have pshycological problems and may be a bit lacking.--Aciram (talk) 15:03, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:17th-century Bohemian people has been nominated for renaming
Category:17th-century Bohemian people has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 23:46, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:18th-century Bohemian people has been nominated for renaming
Category:18th-century Bohemian people has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 23:49, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia
You did identify the source of the material in your edit. It appears to be History of slavery in the Muslim world. Copying within Wikipedia is acceptable but it must be attributed.

This type of edit does get picked up by Copy Patrol and a good edit summary helps to make sure we don't accidentally revert it. However, for future use, would you note the best practices wording as outlined at Copying_within_Wikipedia? In particular, linking to the source article and adding the phrase "see that page's history for attribution" helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved.

While best practices are that attribution should be added to the edit summary at the time the edit is made, the linked article on best practices describes the appropriate steps to add attribution after the fact. I hope you will do so.

I've noticed that this guideline is not very well known, even among editors with tens of thousands of edits, so it isn't surprising that I point this out to some veteran editors, but there are some t's that need to be crossed.~  S Philbrick  (Talk)  13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)


 * ditto Slavery in Iraq S Philbrick  (Talk)  13:07, 15 October 2023 (UTC)


 * But I did add the phrase "see that page's history for attribution", and I did state from which article I copied this text? That means I did act in accordance with the policy you describe? I was under the impression that when you copy within wikipedia, the correct way was to write in the edit history from where you copied it, just as you describe. That it exactly what I did. I clearly state in the edit summary from where I copied the text, and wrote that the proper attribution was to be found there. I thought this was the proper way to go about it. From what you write hear, I appears I did act in accordance with wikipedia policy? I am not sure what else I was suppose to do. I did what you describe as far as i understand.--Aciram (talk) 14:33, 15 October 2023 (UTC)