User talk:Gronk Oz

''In the event that what you seek is not here then it is archived (90% probability). While you are welcome to potter through the archives, the meaning of life is not to be found there.''

Can you help me to improve my article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Ali_Kasi

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. &#x200B;

Best regards,  Chris Troutman  ( talk )  17:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Please help with the article Moneyview
Hi, thanks for cleaning up the article Moneyview. I've added links to Moneyview in a few relevant places, and I'm hoping I've addressed the WP:O issue. Can you please also help with how I can address the other issues? As I've mentioned on the Talk:Moneyview page, I feel this article satisfies WP:N. I'm hoping you can help me with suggestions on how to take care of WP:NPOV. Shashwat986 &rarr; talk 06:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Another editor has removed the Orphan tag. If you want to contribute to the Notability discussion, the best way is to list the best three sources.  Look for reliable sources that discuss the company in depth.  List links to the best three in the discussion at Talk:Moneyview  This will allow editors to evaluate how good they are.--Gronk Oz (talk) 16:06, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

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Article for George John Seaton
I am Jeorgia O'Brien, the author of the George John Seaton page that you voted to delete. I am reaching out to you so that you may review the new updated article. I am working with Washington University in St. Louis as a student author. Our class if also paired with the Wikipedia Foundation for Education. Our goal is to share the stories of Outcasts who have been forgotten in history. It is important to me that I am able to publish this article so that I can share Seaton's story.

As I have been working on improving the article, there are now over 10 new sources that are all secondary sources and relate to George John Seaton. I have implemented many changes including formatting, word choice, and the removal of any primary source quotes. Please review this article once again. If you have more improvements, you would like me to make, please visit my talk page. I will be happy to continue to make changes. After reviewing the article, if it meets notability requirements then I would love for this article to no longer be flagged for deletion and/or you update the comment you made on the talk page for deletion. I am doing my best to follow Wikipedia's guidelines while also sharing a story of a man who should be remembered.

Best, Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 03:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * - thanks for getting back to me, and especially thanks for taking such a collaborative approach. Wikipedia is by its nature a joint effort, so working with other editors is vital and you are certainly showing a willingness to do that.  I see that you have also put this response in the Deletion discussion, so that all the editors can see the update - that is the right way to go about it and I will respond there.
 * On a personal level, I commiserate with the difficulty that comes from having only sparse supporting documentation - albeit in a slightly different field. In my case, I like to write about people who have made significant scientific contributions.  Unfortunately, there has been a culture in the scientific community that actively discouraged people from getting any publicity.  This has meant that sometimes people were not considered notable at all, until suddenly they were because they won a Nobel prize or similar.  But the people who came second and third that year, who have made contributions of a similar level, still don't get an article.  Frustrating.  And you will face a very similar difficulty with your aim to "share the stories of Outcasts who have been forgotten in history" - Wikipedia is a place that reflects what has already been written about the subject, so if they are "forgotten in history" then there may be very little to work with.--Gronk Oz (talk) 04:40, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I appreciate your help and willingness to respond.
 * I am thankful people are willing to highlight forgotten names in science. I saw on your home page that you retired from software computing. I am a mechanical engineering major and I also enjoy science and mathematics. As a female in STEM, I greatly sympathize with the women in history who’s contributions to science have never been recorded. In fact, my cat is named Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin. She goes by “Roz” for short. Luckily for Franklin, she was rightfully credited for her discovery after her death.
 * Again, thank you for getting back to me and continuing to improve the history or scientific figures.
 * Best Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 15:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Question
Hello, relatively new to Wikipedia but learning and only getting better. Thank you for your contributions and willingness to help out new users. I would like to ask you a question to understand what a barnstar is and how or why are they given. Many thanks. Articlread (talk) 03:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Articlread - G'day. Editing Wikipedia is often a thankless task, so editors decided it would be good to encourage one another.   A "barnstar" is just a positive message - it might be a thanks for something specific, or just a general "well done".  They are often formatted with something fun like a picture of a plate of biscuits, etc.  If you want to see a small selection, I have saved the ones sent to me at User:Gronk_Oz/Awards.
 * If you want to acknowledge somebody - go ahead! The full instructions at at WP:BARNSTAR, but the simplest version is just to edit that person's User Talk page and add something like.
 * I hope that makes sense - please get back to me if you have any questions. Gronk Oz (talk) 03:55, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

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Pinchedloaf
I've seen this before, so I've opened Sockpuppet investigations/Kojavak, FYI. Jasper Deng (talk) 07:32, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I have added my two cents' worth there.--Gronk Oz (talk) 07:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

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