Hello! I'm a new Wiki editor and I recently expanded an article on the attorney Melvin Wulf. Another user flagged the article as 1) excessively reliant on primary sources, and 2) potentially not compliant with notability guidelines. When I asked them to elaborate, they recommended I reach out directly to my mentor for guidance.
I'm only aware of two primary sources used: the Rutgers Oral History Archive interview conducted by Nicholas Molnar, cited twice, and Wulf's article about Philip Agee, cited once. Would you be able to glance over the article and let me know if there are additional citations I should be concerned about? I'd also really appreciate any guidance on the notability flag.
I have used wikis in the past, but I have never edited wikipedia. I have a small bit of information I'd like to add to the article on northbridge chips (one or two sentences), but I have no particular interest in taking credit for the edit. Should I make the suggestion on the talk page for the article, or should I just forge ahead and make the edit myself? --Rowanangus (talk) 03:15, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
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I am a teacher in jaisalmer India.
I write short stories..my book Desert teacher is published and read in America and in other parts of world.
I hosted an international radio show called Around the World with Arjun Singh.
I want to publish my details on Wikipedia page... --Arjun S Bhati (talk) 16:16, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi 94Rain,
My submission was just declined and I am trying to determine what I need to do to change it. I have removed a peacock word (remarkable) and I have changed a sentence, but I feel like there are more things that are needed to make the submission acceptable or encyclopedia format as Qnce (editor) suggested it should be. --Socksoup (talk) 16:03, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question from Suryapolina (04:10, 18 September 2024)
Hi Suryapolina. Welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is built on the principle that anyone can edit and therefore aims to have as many pages as possible open for public editing. In some circumstances, pages may need to be protected from modification by certain groups of editors. You can find details about protection levels here: Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Comparison_table. 94rainTalk01:58, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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While writing my reasons for a particular edit that I made, I discovered I can't type more than a specific number of characters. Please, what do i do in cases like this? --Ogar peter Unimke (talk) 11:08, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question from SuperCrash64 (20:42, 31 October 2024)
I have marked you as "away" in the mentorship interface since you haven't edited in a month and there are several unanswered mentor questions above. Please feel free to re-mark yourself as active when you return. Thanks. * Pppery *it has begun...21:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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