User talk:Mikkopresents

March 2018
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March 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from James Michalopoulos. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Missvain (talk) 16:26, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes I did remove it, because as I am working on the page, there is no COI with me - I've explained this in several places Mikkopresents (talk) 17:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Missvain. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they 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. Missvain (talk) 16:26, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Would have been real helpful if you told me which link - I will review your guidelines Mikkopresents (talk) 17:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * As a person who knows nothing about James M. and little about New Orleans, I cut a lot of content that in my opinion had nothing to do with whether he is notable. Artist, yes; sculptor, yes; rum maker, no. David notMD (talk) 17:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Missvain is not blocking you, per se. What she did was publicly raise a concern about whether you as an editor have a conflict-of-interest. Your choice of name (Mikkopresents) may have triggered this. What I recommend is that you leave the template message at the top of the article. Instead, start a new section in the article's Talk, explaining briefly that you are not doing this for James, and - if true - that you don't know James personally. If you edits going forward meet Wikipedia standards, i.e., are adequately referenced and factual, then in time someone else will remove the template. The important point here is that there is an article that has not been tagged for speedy deletion or nominated as an Article for Deletion (AfD). Congratulations on that. I will add that having a COI does not preclude writing on a topic. As a consultant to companies in the dietary supplement industry, my own User page describes my situation. Furthermore, if I am working on an article on a supplement ingredient that some of my clients sell, I create a new section in the Talk for that ingredient, stating again my situation. Again, not blocked, just being transparent about my situation.


 * I recommend again sticking to JM's painting and sculpture as appropriate for this article, not his rum business. If you feel the latter is notable, consider a separate article about it. Has the rum distillery and business been featured in magazine articles about New Orleans? About the liquor industry? If the business itself is article-worthy, then it could Wikilink to JM's article and vice versa. David notMD (talk) 02:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

ok great stuff -- i will start to sandbox stuff - additionally i have other wiki pages i want to create - this was my first outing

Mikkopresents (talk) 19:44, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion of process of adding to articles
M - Rather than post content into an article with the intention of returning later to add references, I recommend using your own Sandbox to craft content. That way, it is not in public sight until ready to be copied and added elsewhere. While in Sandbox, check your new text for typos, errors in referencing, etc. If, instead of new content, you want to radically revise content in an existing article, copy that content into your Sandbox, work on it there, and then replace the old with the revised.

Lastly, at this time, it appears the only article you have worked on is about JM. This raises concerns in Administrators about Single-purpose account. I recommend you put the JM article on your Watchlist so as to stay informed about what other editors do to it, and instead focus your own efforts on improving other New Orleans related articles. A different common problem for Wikipedia newbies is Ownership of content, which is the attitude that one 'owns' an article, so that whatever another person adds or subtracts from the article is wrong and needs to be reverted posthaste.

P.S. Nice start on your User page. You might add a bit more about your background vis-a-vis your intentions as a Wikipedia editor, but not required. David notMD (talk) 12:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

thank you for the insight - if i post in the sandbox does it get looked at by other editors there - that is can i be warned of bad links and other problems that might come up? Mikkopresents (talk) 19:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Sandbox is your private space. Draft is where you can invite people to look at, but otherwise people will not find it. Going through the AfC (Articles for Creation) process means that a reviewer will comment on the article before it goes public. It can take weeks before a submitted article is reviewed, and often the comments on a rejected article are too curt to help with the learning curve. An article creator can also choose to post it directly, without doing AfC. Experienced editors do this with success. Beginners' articles often get Speedy Deletion for grievous errors in content. As for me, I am approaching 8,000 edits, including uplifting three articles to Good Article status, without having ever created an article. David notMD (talk) 12:05, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

You added a fact to DHA's article (where she went to college), but ideally, it should be supported by a reference. David notMD (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dianna Hutts Aston has been accepted
 Dianna Hutts Aston, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Dianna_Hutts_Aston help desk] .
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Your submission at Articles for creation: Old New Orleans Rum (Celebration Distillation) (April 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Old New Orleans Rum (Celebration Distillation) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Old New Orleans Rum (Celebration Distillation), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "db-self" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

James Michalopoulos
I removed the COI template from the top of the James Michalopoulos article, explaining why in Talk.

On a different point - if you are successful in creating articles you may want to consider nominating those to the DID YOU KNOW process, Did you know which appears on the main page of Wikipedia. It is time consuming and has some risk - there are examples of articles that made it to main space, but were then nominated for deletion after being submitted to DYK. The upside is that for the one day the article appears on the main page, it gets thousands of views. David notMD (talk) 13:29, 14 April 2018 (UTC)