User talk:Mizike

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! gobonobo + c 06:46, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Mizike (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Mizike!


Happy New Year! Mizike, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 23:05, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


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June 2016
Hello, I'm Wikipelli. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.   Wikipelli Talk   17:25, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello! I'm afraid if the edit you reverted was inappropriate, I'm going to want to go and self revert several more. After looking at the MOS for novels, I saw that Translations are not included -- which seems appropriate because they appear to be no more than trivia. If the number of languages into which a novel has been translated is notable, it can be mentioned in the publication history. But a list of translated titles appears to be no more than a catalog. Before I made the removal, I checked for past discussions regarding translation sections and I found this: . From my reading there was consensus that translations, if notable, do not merit their own section. So I thought I'd be Bold and start cleaning up some articles that looked rather silly with this trivial section. But if I'm wrong, let me know and I'll revert a handful of other such translation removals I've made. Mizike (talk) 17:39, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries.. Looking at your edits, I see that they are not unconstructive and I assume good faith and you can go right ahead and edit ... My mistake. Cheers!   Wikipelli  Talk   01:28, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Translation sections
Hi, Mizike, I'm here because I've noticed that you're removing sections from articles that list translations of English books into other languages. I read through the debate at the link you gave above, and it did not seem to me that a real consensus was reached about whether or not these sections should exist. I think you should hold off with these removals until there is a clearer guideline developed. Maybe we need a RFC?

Anyway, at first I was upset at your removing these sections. Part of that was because some of them have been built up over years by various editors (at least in the articles on my watchlist), and part was a negative reaction to the word "trivial" in your edit summary. It sounded judgmental and somewhat arrogant to me. Now I know (reading your reply above) that's not what you meant at all. But, if you do go on with these edits, I suggest rewording your edit summary to something milder.

I tried to find guidance somewhere on Wikipedia on this issue, but had no luck whatsoever. I would like to get a real, project-wide consensus on this issue. I mentioned an RFC earlier, but there may be better venues or methods. Any ideas? — Gorthian (talk) 02:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello! After getting reverted a few times, I agree about holding off. And thanks for understanding that by trivial, I just mean that it feels like trivia more so than an encyclopedia article. I had initially thought to include a bit in my edit summary that if the number of translations is notable it can be incorporated into the publication history, but I worried that it was too long for a brief edit summary.


 * I searched through the archives of the WP:Novels general forum and I could not find any other obvious discussion about this topic, but I think an RFC would be great -- I'm not really knowledgeable on how to start such a thing though, so I'd appreciate it if you could either get it going or give pointers. Mizike (talk) 13:33, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob 13 Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))

A barnstar for you!

 * Aw, shucks. Thanks! Mizike (talk) 17:14, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello Mizike!

Thanks for welcoming me. I appreciate all the useful links and info you left on my page.

I am aware of the conflict of interest, and I tried my best to stay as neutral as possible. Last week, I indicated on the World Gospel Mission talk page that I was affiliated with the organization (am an employee) and thus would in a way get paid to edit the page, as Wikipedia requires.

In response to your suggestion about making a draft first, I had already gone live with the major updates before I saw your message to me (just a few minutes ago). However, I trust that you (or anyone else who looks at it) will find that the updates were necessary. The page was in a really bad state, and in total I think that I cut out a lot of biased and unsupported information. Everything that I added has the proper references, too, I believe.

If you see that anything should be changed or flagged, then that is totally fine--I just wanted to be transparent.

Thank you!

(edit: also, yes this is a personal account, not a corporate one; thanks for checking on that!)

Alexgergely (talk) 17:01, 1 July 2019 (UTC)