User talk:Evelyn Harthbrooke/2013 Archive

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven
Hello again! We have some neat updates about the Teahouse:
 * We’ve added badges! Teahouse awards is a pilot project to learn how acknowledgement impacts engagement and retention in Teahouse and Wikipedia.


 * We’ve got a new WikiLove Badge script that makes giving badges quick and easy. Add it here.  You can give out badges to thank helpful hosts, welcome guests, acknowledge great questions and more.


 * Come join the experiment and let us know what you think!


 * And...for all of your great work and all of the progress that you've helped the Teahouse make, we hereby award you the Host Badge:


 * You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here

Thanks again! Ocaasi 01:58, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

The Teahouse Turns One!
It's been an exciting year for the Teahouse and you were a part of it. Thanks so much for visiting, asking questions, sharing answers, being friendly and helpful, and just keeping Teahouse an awesome place. You can read more about the impact we're having and the reflections of other guests and hosts like you. Please come by the Teahouse to celebrate with us, and enjoy this sparkly cupcake badge as our way of saying thank you. And, Happy Birthday!


 * --Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 22:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Your feedback about VisualEditor being very slow
Hi. I saw your feedback on this page VisualEditor/Feedback. Could you tell me a little bit more? Does it load slow for you or is it slow when typing or maybe when performing some other actions? --Inez Korczyński (talk) 22:51, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Avoiding fluff
Hello, Kamran

Just wanted to drop you a quick note about this edit in Windows 8 article: In Wikipedia, we avoid fluff, words that make no sense and just add to the sentence length. This is important, because removing fluff is one of the many requirements of a Featured Article. You can take this exercise to learn about removing such words.

In your edit "in order" and "must" are fluff. (Actually, "must" is grammatically wrong because the sentence previously says "Microsoft requires". Only one of them must exist.) What is the difference between "in order to" and "to"? Nothing! "In order to" unnecessarily longer.

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 10:42, 4 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Just a note, edits like this are really inappropriate. Lisa came here to provide information and extend a helping hand, and you slapped that same hand.  It is fine to disagree with someone, and to even tell them, but you might try a bit harder to be less disagreeable when you do.  And so you understand, the editors at Wikipedia do care about fluff.  Whether it is fluff or not, I don't know, but fluff is something we avoid, so a legitimate topic to inform you about.  Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 18:58, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, I get it. But I made those edits for a reason. I wouldn't have made those edits if it weren't for a reason. Best regards, Kamran Mackey (talk) 20:30, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe you. And you might be right about them, and Lisa might be wrong, I really don't know.  From what I know of Lisa, if you calmly discuss it with her, she will listen.  That is all I'm trying to encourage, discussion instead of yelling at each other. Sometimes, we all can bump heads here, we are human.  But we should try to calmly discuss our differences, and be willing to listen and learn.  I learn something new every day here, and I'm an admin with 38000 edits, and I have a long way to go to learn it all.  And thank you for being open minded here, that is what editing here should be about. Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 21:10, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You are most welcome, Dennis. I'm really glad I joined Wikipedia. It's one of the best sites on the whole Internet. :) Kamran Mackey (talk) 21:12, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
 Я ehevkor ✉  20:56, 6 June 2013 (UTC)



IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to 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 on '''Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC'''. See the agenda for more info. -- EpochFail (talk &bull; work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 17:36, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

August 2013
Hello, I'm Deadbeef. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Minecraft, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Dea db  eef  01:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

YouTube
Please note that WP:TWINKLE is a tool primarily for reverting vandalism. It should not be used to revert edits without an edit summary unless they are clearly unconstructive. There is no need to mention video game walkthroughs in the WP:LEAD, because it is unsourced and there are many different types of videos on YouTube (eg people doing recipes is common, but this is not mentioned in the lead section either). If you disagree with an edit, the talk page is the place to go, not Twinkle.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 20:56, 20 September 2013 (UTC)