User talk:MagPlex

Categories, stubs, etc
Hallo, I came across Ovorubin while stub-sorting and noticed that you'd add Category:Protein stubs. No, stub categories should never be added directly, only by adding a template like protein-stub. In which case you remove the stub. Actually I think this article had grown beyond being a stub so I removed both the category and the original stub template.

I had a look at some of your other edits... here you've accidentally removed the DEFAULTSORT, so please watch out and don't do that. You also removed the Uncategorised, but only gave him one category, Category:American psychologists. Yes, that's a good category, but he needs more: date of birth and death categories at least. If you aren't going to give all the obvious categories (people from..., alumni of ..., faculty of ... ), please add improve categories to flag it for someone else. Shortcut is CI. I see that the next couple of editors added just the kind of categories I was suggesting.

There is a very easy way to add the DEFAULTSORT (so the article files by surname in lists), and Category:Living people where appropriate, and any birth or death date category: 1882 would create , Category:1882 births and Category:1984 deaths, while  would create  , Category:Living people and Category:Date of birth missing (living people). Lack of death date implies "living" (or you can add "unknown" or "missing" as the death date to suppress this). You get a lot done for a few keystrokes: I think it's a great little template. In fact I sometimes overtype the existing DEFAULTSORT to convert it into the  as the fastest way to add the birth date and "living people" categories.

In this edit you could have used a neat Wikipedia trick: instead of tuples, just type tuples. Anything you type immediately after the closing double square brackets of a link will appear in blue along with the link, and you don't need to type the link with a capital initial letter.

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey. I hope some of these tips are useful to you. Happy editing!


 * Oops, forgot to sign this earlier message (18:34) (as well as not previewing carefully enough to spot mangled heading...) Pam  D  22:25, 30 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for taking the time to provide these tips! It's much appreciated and reminds me it's okay to not be perfect first time. I will keep all of these in mind (particularly DEFAULTSORT, oops!) and take more time reading the relevant information pages next time I am unsure about edits, and be more thorough (but hopefully not too excessive) with my category additions. There's lots of learning to do, but that's where the fun is! MagPlex (talk · contribs) 18:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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