User talk:Yguzman10

Welcome!
Hello, Yguzman10, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Yguzman, there's a bit of work to do in relation to WP:CITE--you are not citing in a way that's helpful to the reader. You can't just paste in URLs from a database that you are logged in to at school: you need to cite completely, and correctly. Please ask your teacher how to do this, and see the technicalities of Wikipedia citations at WP:CITE. I appreciate your efforts, but these citations need cleaning up. Ian (Wiki Ed), how's it going? Drmies (talk) 22:29, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Drmies I'm surprised this isn't blocked by the abuse filter like the library proxy server ones are. Hopefully there's enough of a pattern there that someone can update the filter. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:20, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Yguzman10 These URLs don't work to create a reference because you need to be logged in to the server (probably your library's server) in order to see the actual article. The Cite tool can't do that, so it produces a garbled result.
 * The best thing to do is to try to find a DOI on the article. That should work with the tool. It you can't find a DOI, you may have to create the reference manually. There's a tab on the Cite tool interface that says "Manual" - it's right next to the default "Automatic" tab. Click on that, and then pick the reference that matches what you're using (or the closest match). Then fill in the fields on the form to create the reference. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:25, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ian (Wiki Ed), old ways are the best ways, IMO. Those articles usually have the bibliographic information--at least one of them was simply an electronic version of a book. If students are taught, in class, how to do a citation in the first place, they can do that the same way here... Whatever tool makes those references is spotted a mile away because of some quirks and some needless parameters, like the language one, and (as here, I believe) it frequently gets the names wrong, as in that citation with two authors. Take care, Drmies (talk) 14:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Yokuts history
I appreciate your enthusiasm for Yokuts history, it is an interest I share (I created the pages for Yoimut, Template:Yokuts navbox, and Islands in Tulare Lake, among other minor edits around Wikipedia.) Just would like to give you some pointers, after looking at your sandbox:


 * Unless specifically talking about the Lemoore reservation (Tachi Yokut), Yokuts should always be "Yokuts," with the 's', whether plural or singular. I grew up in Tulare County and always learned it as "Yokut" but when I began studying anthropology academically, I learned that the 'ts' sound at the end is just one phoneme. Funnily enough, in the Tachi dialect, Yokuts is pronounced something like "Yokoch," with no "t" sound at all.
 * The Yokuts are a diverse nation, with many different dialects and mythologies across the board. The creation story you added to the Yokuts page is generally true, but it's important to note that, for example, Yokuts around the Buena Vista region hold that the waters were Lake Buena Vista, whereas the Wowol, Chunut, or Tachi will hold that the waters were Tulare Lake. Each Yokuts nation viewed itself as one unit, there was no notion of being Yokuts before anthropologists coined the term. It really does just mean 'people,' cholul yokuts means 'white people' for example.
 * The Yokuts are still around. I grew up with some of them. They still, e.g., process acorn, just not as a major food source anymore. So when talking about them, it's important to always use the present tense unless you're talking about something that specifically *only* happened in the past, for example, using tule boats to navigate Tulare Lake -- it doesn't exist anymore so they can't.

I deeply appreciate your interest in this very important work. Thank you!

--MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE IS REAL EMO!(talk or whatever) 14:49, 11 May 2022 (UTC)


 * @Mychemicalromanceisrealemo Thank you for the tips they were helpful and will help me be more accurate, I will keep it in mind as I edit the article and will edit what I added.
 * yguzman10 Yguzman10 (talk) 21:07, 12 May 2022 (UTC)