User talk:Annevalentino

General thoughts
First, Anne, I have taken a great liberty and "archived" your talk page. This is not something that other editors will generally do for you, and if this is unwelcome I will owe you an apology and will happily "unarchive" your talk page. I thought it might just make it easier for you to use it. Your old conversations are all stored now at User talk:Annevalentino/Archive 1. Anytime you would like, you can add a section from your current talk page to that and keep your current talk page more streamlined.

I have also added an invitation to the "Teahouse" above. The teahouse is meant to be a friendly environment for newcomers who want to learn more about editing Wikipedia, and I think it does a good job with that. :)

Your personal settings are highly individual, but I think there's nothing wrong with leaving things as they are until you decide what you want to do. The one thing I would really advise you to be familiar with are Watchlists. If, while you are logged in, you click the "star" at the top of your page, it will be added to your watchlist, and you will be notified when a change to the page is made. This is not so that you can "own" pages (we have strict rules against article ownership, which you can read at Own), but we all do have areas of interest and may like to continue participating in those pages. In your case, your personal interest in your husband's article is legitimate reason to watch so you can at least weigh in if you believe it is starting to deviate from our policies on articles about living people. (These require especially strict sourcing, and when article subjects and their representatives feel that the articles are unfair we want to do what we can to assess those concerns.)

You do have the option of receiving an email when a change is made to a page you watchlist. To learn more about that, see Help:Preferences and especially section Help:Preferences. This is not an option I would enable because I watch 2,216 pages. But I do use it on some of our other projects, where I am less active. You will not necessarily receive an email every time a page on your watchlist has changed. To avoid flooding you with emails, you will receive a letter only the first time and no more until you next log in to view the page.

As to your interest in spreading out (if I am understanding you correctly) into other articles, there is tremendous need and so many opportunities. Are there particular areas that appeal to you? There are writing needs (articles to be created, articles to be expanded) and curation needs (articles that require copy-editing, articles that require improved referencing, articles that need checking for neutrality). There are various projects related to subject areas where other editors have created lists of work that need doing. For instance, there's WikiProject Psychology, if you are interested in working in the area of your profession. If you don't mind telling me a little more about what you'd like to do, I'd be delighted to offer some ideas about where you can give it a go. :)

Oh, as a final note, when you leave a talk page note for somebody or leave a note on a discussion board (but not content in an article), add four tildes to the end. ( ~ ). This will automatically expand into your username, a link to your user talk page and a timestamp. Very helpful in tracking discussions! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:42, 14 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Based on your note on my talk page, it sounds like there are many places where you might happily contribute, including WikiProject Architecture. :) That and WikiProject Psychology have recommendations for places you might start, if you'd like to work on known problems. There's a section on the latter called "What you can do to help" that includes some specific article needs. For a couple of examples, the article Psychomotor learning is flagged as being a "stub" article, in need of further development. There are literally hundreds of articles related to psychology that need further development; some of them are tagged and listed at Category:Psychology stubs (which includes some specific subcategories that can also be clicked on to generate the lists). We also have Category:Architecture stubs and Category:Architect stubs. Stubs provide excellent opportunities to build out something substantial from something underdeveloped. :) The two projects linked here include guidance on what we generally look for in articles related to architecture and articles related to psychology.


 * Creating new articles can be a bit of a daunting challenge for newcomers, as the Wikipedia environment is not always friendly. Like many public gathering places, we attract a widely diverse group of contributors with different approaches to collaboration and engagement. Some will take time to talk to you. Others will succinctly communicate through templates (I do that myself sometimes where issues are straightforward especially). Some won't talk directly at all - they will simply indicate that they're doing through their "edit summary", which you have to look in the page history to see.


 * I absolutely do not want to discourage you from creating new articles, but would recommend that you do it in conjunction with working on existing articles. One of the best ways to get a feel for prevailing standards is to engage a wide variety of these - get a sense of what's considered good and what not (there are many examples of poor Wikipedia content!) and start to engage other Wikipedians naturally. If you do want to start right in writing articles, I really recommend "your first article", which is a very informative page that can help you avoid some of the common pitfalls of new editors. (It's actually a good page to read for working on existing pages, too - as is Writing better articles.


 * In my own opinion, the most important things to nail down in the first draft of an article are the notability of the subject (demonstrated through reliable sources) and the neutrality of your tone. And if you encounter pushback, please try to be patient. :) (I suspect, based on your general approach, that you will be.) If you absolutely cannot resolve a disagreement in talking to somebody, there are many avenues of dispute resolution. I'd be happy to direct you to some that might serve you best in specific circumstances, should you run into such a dispute.


 * As a general rule of thumb, my goal on Wikipedia is to leave many articles better, but not necessarily to dedicate the time to try to raise any one to peak. I have a wide variety of interests and like to research, so I enjoy popping in on many different subject areas. (And I dedicate a lot of time to cleaning up copyright issues, which is a very time-consuming task!) Some people really like to dig in on the articles they work on and raise them to "good" or "featured" status through peer review. This is an intense and highly collaborative process, but if you have a drive to perfect it may be the path for you. :) I'm happy to talk more about that approach, if it interests you.


 * I hope you will decide to brave the challenges and help improve this content. Wikipedia has an amazing educational reach. :) While it does take some patience, I think it's well-worth it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing
Hi! After some reflection I have reverted your recent edits at George Ranalli. May I try to explain why? We have found that an editor who is closely connected, either personally of professionally, to a topic has difficulty in maintaining the neutrality which is fundamental to this project. We call such relationships a conflict of interest, and strongly discourage such editors from editing affected articles directly. We do however recognise that, as in your case, such editors may have valuable knowledge and resources which could be used with advantage to improve the project. So we ask that, instead of making edits themselves, they propose or request changes on the talk page of the article (in this case, Talk:George Ranalli). If you begin a request with request edit (exactly so, complete with curly parentheses), that will attract the attention of other editors, who should evaluate your proposal and decide what changes need to be made. This may seem laborious, but it is the procedure we've agreed on.

May I venture a suggestion? You obviously have many of the skills needed to become a really valuable Wikipedia editor. Would you consider leaving this one article alone, and instead devoting those skills to improving other pages, as you have done so capably for Scarpa? I hope so. Meanwhile, my regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:49, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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-- 21:27, Saturday, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 21:30, Saturday, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 21:31, Saturday, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 21:31, Saturday, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 21:31, Saturday, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
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 * The Teahouse new editor help space
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-- 15:24, Saturday, December 5, 2015 (UTC)

Grey Art
I think we collided on that last one to fix the references. I removed the FB links per guidelines here as the Gallery has a website. Love how you've updated it though StarM 04:12, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Got it! Thanks! Annevalentino 04:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)Annevalentino — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.66.202 (talk) 04:29, 30 December 2015 (UTC)


 * and it looks like the bot fixed us both. Too funny. I just tried the refs in two columns due to length-what do you think of layout? StarM 03:47, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 04:21, Wednesday, December 30, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 05:15, Sunday, January 3, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Annevalentino! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 05:52, Sunday, January 3, 2016 (UTC)

George Ranalli
Hi! I see that you have taken little notice of my message higher up this page about your conflict of interest in relation to the article about your husband. At the risk of being a bore, I'm going to repeat part of it: you are strongly discouraged from editing articles about topics with which you have a close personal or professional connection; you are however always welcome to propose changes to such articles on the talk page. It's wholly inappropriate for you to continue editing this article. Please stop doing so. There are five million other articles you could work on, but you should leave George Ranalli alone from now on. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:33, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

ANI
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Jytdog (talk) 23:58, 13 July 2018 (UTC)