User talk:Wastrel Way

Welcome
 Hello Wastrel Way, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page — I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

--- Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...

Finding your way around:


 * Table of Contents


 * Department directory

Need help?


 * Questions — a guide on where to ask questions.
 * Cheatsheet — quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes.
 * Wikipedia's 5 pillars — an overview of Wikipedia's foundations


 * Article Wizard — a Wizard to help you create articles
 * The Simplified Ruleset — a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules.
 * Guide to Wikipedia — A thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia.

How you can help:


 * Contributing to Wikipedia — a guide on how you can help.


 * Community Portal — Wikipedia's hub of activity.

Additional tips...


 * Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The [[Image:Signature_icon.png]] or [[File:Insert-signature.png]] button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.


 * If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills the Sandbox is for you.

Wastrel Way, good luck, and have fun. -- freshacconci ' talk talk ' 03:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for File:Downtown Flood PLain.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Downtown Flood PLain.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time after the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: Once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 22:01, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Community Insights Survey
Share your experience in this survey

Hi ,

The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey about your experience with and Wikimedia. The purpose of this survey is to learn how well the Foundation is supporting your work on wiki and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.

This survey is hosted by a third-party and governed by this privacy statement (in English).

Find more information about this project. [mailto:surveys@wikimedia.org Email us] if you have any questions, or if you don't want to receive future messages about taking this survey.

Sincerely, RMaung (WMF) 16:00, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Reminder: Community Insights Survey
Share your experience in this survey

Hi ,

A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to take the Community Insights Survey. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual survey of our global communities. We want to learn how well we support your work on wiki. We are 10% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! Your voice matters to us.

Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.

This survey is hosted by a third-party and governed by this privacy statement (in English).

Find more information about this project. [mailto:surveys@wikimedia.org Email us] if you have any questions, or if you don't want to receive future messages about taking this survey.

Sincerely, RMaung (WMF) 15:38, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for June 25
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited List of The Addams Family episodes, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page John Hart ([//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/List_of_The_Addams_Family_episodes check to confirm] | [//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/List_of_The_Addams_Family_episodes?client=notify fix with Dab solver]).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:25, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 3
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
 * List of Maverick episodes
 * added links pointing to Robert Griffin, Bob Steele, John Hubbard and Fred Sherman

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 13:00, 3 October 2020 (UTC) Thank you. Added them late last night, fixed them first thing this morning before I got this notice. Wastrel Way (talk) 13:44, 3 October 2020 (UTC) Eric

Gutting the List of Maverick episodes
Wastrel Way, why are you removing all the meticulously compiled interesting information and substituting an enigmatic line of description followed by a list of the guest cast? It's fine to make a guest cast list if you like, I think that's a great idea, but please don't remove all the background information that dozens of people have carefully learned and contributed across a long span of time. Build on what's there, that's more than fine and very welcome but please don't cavalierly delete the fascinating details that makes this site intriguing and leaves people more informed, increasing their enjoyment of this truly unique series while sidestepping spoilers. Instead of wholesale deletion, make useful contributions, like the guest cast, with the aim of enhancing rather than destroying the intriguing background information that's been carefully compiled over time and increases enjoyment for episode viewers. Work with the rest of us, not against us. Build and add, please don't make wholesale deletions. Your contributions are more than welcome but please don't destroy the contributions of others as well. George Raft Has Risen From the Grave (talk) 00:39, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not my intention to gut them. But the current descriptions contain insufficient information about the episodes themselves, and stuff about the writers getting screwed, etc. which I think belongs in the main article. I do see what you are saying, and I will be more careful henceforth and restore some of the information that seems pertinent. I appreciate the feedback. By the way, see the talk page for the article -- many of the changes I've made have been made before, for the same reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Maverick_episodes#Massive_edits For instance " Diane Brewster had also played Crawford the previous year in an episode of Cheyenne called "Dark Rider," belongs in the article about Diane Brewster, not here, and "REASON DELETED: Completely beside the point. Has only the most tangential relationship to a list of the 1967 series' episodes." Wastrel Way (talk) 12:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC) Eric
 * Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it myself. I was just looking admiringly and appreciatively at your extensive work on the List of Addams Family episodes (you put a lot of work into it: you remind me of me!). There are differing philosophies regarding these lists of television episodes that will beleaguer us all to varying extents (imagine if you opened the Addams Family lists and discovered that someone had deleted almost everything you'd written for some reason). My outlook on the episode lists is twofold where Maverick is concerned: first, the lists should augment the pleasure of readers who haven't seen a particular episode yet, which means moving heaven and earth to avoid any spoilers whatsoever like the plague, because of course spoilers especially blunt the pleasure for new viewers who have no idea what will happen next in a given episode. On the other hand, just enough information should be there to enable someone familiar with the series to be able to figure out which episode is which if he's trying to figure out the title of a specific episode that he wants to watch again, but leaving the plot twists untrammeled so that he can enjoy the episode to the fullest after tracking it down. This requires a balancing act worthy of a circus. The business about whether the news that Diane Brewster appeared as Samantha Crawford in the first episode of Cheyenne after writer/producer Roy Huggins took it over at the beginning of its second season is very germane since otherwise it's highly unlikely that the reader of the List would ever know that despite the fact that it is in both the main Maverick article and the Diane Brewster article.  I don't know about you personally but I do know from voluminous experience that it's pretty often that the first thing many people want to do after watching "According to Hoyle" is to find more Samantha Crawford wherever she might turn up. Some people in this situation are like us, master researchers who'll look up the actress' Wikipedia page and the Maverick page to investigate but, sadly, most people do not. It is a gift from me to them that this obscure but tantalizing information turns up in the episode list so that any Amazon Prime member, for example, can immediately pull up the episode and watch it for themselves. And I'm fascinated by the fact that the "Dark Rider" script also turns up in Maverick with a different leading lady in the episode titled "Yellow River," with Bart Maverick mischievously telling that leading lady twice that she reminds him of Samantha Crawford! (Back in the 1950s and very early '60s, Warner Bros. routinely recycled good scripts through practically their entire roster of television series, changing only the names and locales and a minimal additional amount if Westerns were transferred to detective series or vice versa, substituting horses for cars and so forth. This knowledge finally solved the half-century-old mystery for me of how my father usually knew what was going to happen next on a narrative television program even if it had never been broadcast before.) I have much more to add but I have to get back to work at the moment. I'm enjoying our conversation.  George Raft Has Risen From the Grave (talk) 18:43, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't agree completely, but I hope you will at least agree that more organization would be a good thing. First, a "plot summary" (with no spoilers!) that I have been keeping to a minimum. Then sections for "guest stars" and "writers." Then "notes" which is where other information goes. I don't like the rambling intros, and I just called them a "jumble of stuff" on the talk page. A typical note would be something like: "Samantha Crawford played the same character on an episode of Cheyenne in 1956." Just like that, a fact without much detail, for the interested reader to follow. We do not need to repeat all the same things said in the main article and the Samantha Crawford article. I was thinking that I'm OK watching the episodes of this classic show without trying to improve wikipedia, anyway. Wastrel Way (talk) 20:16, 8 October 2020 (UTC) Eric

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
 Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:12, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

June 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contribution(s). I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, while user talk pages permit a small degree of generaliation, other talk pages such as Talk:Turnabout Intruder are strictly for discussing improvements to their associated main pages, and many of them have special instructions on the top. They are not a general discussion forum about the article's topic or any other topic. If you have questions or ideas and are not sure where to post them, consider asking at the Teahouse. Thanks. 331dot (talk) 17:51, 20 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Yeah, I hesitated to say something like that there, because I know it's opinion. It's good see a reply from wikipedia, since my genuine suggestions for improvements (such as suggesting that the Plot sections in all the Star Trek TOS articles are too long and detailed) haven't generated one. Nevertheless, I persevere. You don't need to welcome me, I've been around for years and I've written 2 or 3 articles from scratch that needed to be done. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 18:58, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please pardon my use of a pre-written message. There's no option to remove the "welcome". 331dot (talk) 19:00, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message
 Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:39, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

MOS:GENDERID
Hi Wastrel Way, I noticed your recent comment at the Lia Thomas article talk page. Please note the comment above yours suggests reviewing MOS:GENDERID as well as the FAQ section at the top of the talk page to help answer this frequently-asked question, as applied to the Lia Thomas article. Article talk pages are not a general discussion forum, but if you would like to further discuss MOS:GENDERID, you could start by opening a discussion on the Manual of Style for Biographies talk page. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 01:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for answering. I did look at MOS:GENDERID and the FAQ page. I disagree. There is no reason to treat people who change gender and names differently than those who don't change gender or do change names. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

 * You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. 

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 23:10, 2 May 2024 (UTC)