User talk:Adityavagarwal/Archives/2018/June

June 2018 GOCE newsletter
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Thank you for your message and your nice words. Sorry if I deleted the message and reply here, but I prefer not to have the following message on my talk page. I'm pretty much discouraged about Wikipedia, and the message from Alex is just hurting me more. I prefer not to see it and not even that other people see it. If your message could have a positive output, the message for Alex quelched any chances, and I'm sure that was the purpose. I'm contributing my knowledge to my own website and my photos as well. Those articles and photos I have created for Wikipedia will remain, but I will not create new content. Elisa.rolle (talk) 19:34, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Elisa.rolle I understand you not preferring to have messages on your talk page. Discontinuing Wikipedia would be great if you were busy in any manner but not if it is due to misunderstanding, being hurt, etc. We could always amend such reasons. In my honest opinion, and if I were in your boots, I would take 's message in a positive note. He is just trying to point out the problems with your edits. I have been pointed out too, to which I have responded by improving my editing style. Improving one's errors would only improve one's own editing style, wouldn't they? :) He has factually also pointed out your "incredible pace" and "useful go-to person for sources, image files and life details about many subjects in general" which shows how important you are to Wikipedia, although the errors made in such a fast editing process, as a matter of fact and not any personal hatred, damage your awesome articles at the very same pace! I cannot help but think you are like the Ussain Bolt that instead of running on tracks is straying off to the bushes. By this I mean you have such incredible potential but only if your process was slightly curved into the better direction you would easily be that Ussain Bolt who wins and creates new records, am I wrong (just think about it positively). To be honest, improve my editing style has immensely helped me in making essays for my college applications process!! By the way, I never really might have been able to imagine I would ever contribute to bird species and am now planning to contribute to extinct species with FunkMonk. It is really really fun! You could join us as there are few editors only who are contributing to extinct species. I feel contributing to Biographies can really be challenging due to the Notability guidelines, etc. but each species is notable and it would be far more easier to contribute to them. You could give it a try and if you start enjoying contributing to such articles you could continue. You could be the second FunkMonk on the website :P ; he has tons of FAs, GAs, and what not, and is a very respected editor. You could also improve your editing style by contributing to such articles as I feel the writing style in those articles is quite less prone to errors. When you feel you have gotten back to track, you could switch back to making biographies. Adityavagarwal (talk) 10:04, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Adityavagarwal, I'm a feminist and LGBTQ historian. I do not feel like changing my background since those topics are hard. As I said, I went back to improve my books, in these last months I digged LGBTQ architects, LGBTQ artists, many of the info I found are sadly lacking or totally missing on Wikipedia, or totally wrong. William Pahlmann, the man who designed the current camouflage pattern for the US Army was gay. His partner was Jack Conners. They lived and worked together. He was a gay man in the US Army well before the Don't Ask Don't Tell was repelled. And this is totally missing from Wikipedia. But it's no more my task trying to improve it. Elisa.rolle (talk) 10:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Alex Shih Re-ping. I always have this problem with pings... when the first mention doesn't get sent, I struggle to send it again. :P Adityavagarwal (talk) 10:08, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Lepidoptera redirects
As stated above, here's a start on the Lepidoptera redirect info I promised you.

Before you start
A nifty userscript: If you intend to do a lot of redirect work, it can be incredibly annoying when the redirects keep, well, redirecting you and you have to spend several clicks to get to the actual redirect page. The utterly awesome User:Writ Keeper wrote a nifty userscript for me that stops the redirects from automatically redirecting. Downside is that it does so for all redirects, of course, so on occasion when you want to be redirected you have to spend an extra click. However, it saves so many clicks while working on redirects that it's worth it. I would recommend adding it. (All you need to do is add the line "importScript("User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/noAutoRedir.js")" to your common.js page.)

Avoid flooding your watchlist: A downside of doing a lot of redirect work is flooding your watchlist until it gets to sizes where it has difficulty loading, if you have the "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist" option in the watchlist section of your preferences enabled. I've personally disabled it permanently (most of my work is spread over many many pages between redirect, categorization and taxobox work; if every separate page I've edited was on my watchlist, I'd have over 30,000 pages and their talkpages on my watchlist) and I'd recommend doing something the same or at least disable them before starting mass redirect work sessions.

Finding redirects to a page: Normally, there is an option called Show redirects only in "What links here" in the left-hand sidebar, which leads to an external tool to find just the pages that redirect to a given page. Unfortunately, it's currently absent, but work to restore it is ongoing. Until it has been restored, you'll have to manually look through the "What links here" list to find all redirects to a page.

Redirect discussion & deletion: I tend to be bold in my redirect work, and just act on my own within the rules, guidelines etc. that exist. If I can personally fix it, I will. (It helps that I'm familiar with both the standards of WikiProject:Lepidoptera (and their parent wikiprojects insects, tree of life, etc.) and WikiProject:Redirects, as well as the rules, guidelines etc. involved with redirects)

Sometimes however, there are cases you can't handle alone, such as when you find a redirect exists but really shouldn't, or when there's multiple ways to handle an existing redirect and you're not sure which is the right one. In those cases, the right venue is Wikipedia:Redirects for Discussion, in shorthand also called "RFD" or "RfD".

(It's also possible you have a personal feeling for what's the right way to handle it but you're not sure consensus for such an action exists, though in those cases I'd just check with other folks working on the relevant wikiprojects. Only if after that no consensus (or more likely, no response) can be found, I'd move to RFD)

An overview
In effect, there are three parts to my work with moth/butterfly redirects:
 * 1) Ensuring the necessary redirects exist and are pointed at the correct locations;
 * 2) Ensuring that existing redirects, whether created by me or others, have the templates they should;
 * 3) and ensuring they have the categories they should.

I'm still working on writing out how exactly to do the three above. Unfortunately, it's an area riddled with "generally this, but not this, and do this if such except if also such unless also that, in which case do that" exceptions. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 23:32, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018
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